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Papers

(The median citation count of Cognitive Neuroscience is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of affordances in technological cognition	20
What is technology-specific in technological cognition?	18
Hippocampal activity supporting working memory is contingent upon specific task demands	16
Relational properties as a source of variation for object representation in OTC	16
Seeking cognitive and neural specificity in occipitotemporal cortex	15
What does the hippocampus do during working-memory tasks? A cognitive-neuropsychological perspective	14
Closing the box	14
Does working memory activate the hippocampus during the late delay period?	10
Understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions – integrating neurophenomenology and literary studies	9
Theoretical strategies for an embodied cognitive neuroscience: Mechanistic explanations of brain-body-environment systems	9
In search of systems consolidation	9
A network-level perspective on technological cognition	8
Toward a cognitive neuroscience of technology	7
In defense of categories	7
Bidirectionality and the application of the integrated neurocognitive model of technological cognition to late life cognitive health	7
Degree of abstraction rather than ambiguity is crucial for driving mentalizing involvement commentary on “A-EM: a neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality”	6
The diversity of possible constitutive components in cognitive neurosciences	5
Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex	5
Grounding the computational principles of language in neurobiology requires cross-modal and cross-linguistic data	5
Differential effects of bilateral hippocampal CA3 damage on the implicit learning and recognition of complex event sequences	5
Sensorimotor representation of observed dyadic actions with varying agent involvement: an EEG mu study	4
Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention	4
When perception fades, the hippocampus may support implicit memory	3
Concerns about confounds: False memory as an explanation for a hippocampus-supported implicit eye-movement-based relational memory effect	3
The dead salmon strikes again: Reports of unconscious processing in the hippocampus may reflect Type-I error	3

Unconscious processing effects manifest only if conscious processing is excluded	3
Imposing vs finding unity	3
Facial distortions as a critical test for models of the organization of visual function	3
Role of the prefrontal cortex and executive functions in basic emotions recognition: evidence from patients with focal damage to the prefrontal cortex	2
Visual input statistics and behavioral relevance jointly constrain higher visual cortex organization	2
How deep will you go? Hierarchy in predictive coding and transformers	2
Enriching the neurocognitive model of technological cognition: the role of emotional and reward-related processes	2
The hippocampus and long-term memory	2
Changes in brain activity and connectivity as memories age	2
Counterfactual imagination impairs memory for true actions: EEG and behavioural evidence	2
Understanding the role of the frontal lobe in tool-use tasks: how much does it represent domain-general rather than domain-specific contribution?	2
Visuo-spatial working memory abilities modulate mental rotation: Evidence from event-related potentials	2
Do we need to reconceptualize emotions?	2
Mechanistic explanation and the integration between language and action	2
Half-listening or zoned out? It’s about the same: the impact of attentional state on word processing in context	1
Beyond embodiment: Rethinking the integration of cognitive neuroscience and mechanistic explanations	1
MA-EM: A neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality	1
From framework to function: sharpening digital tool use within technological cognition	1
Reducing type II error in fMRI analysis: cluster-extent threshold simulation results and an evaluation of current methods to correct for multiple comparisons	1
Hippocampal involvement in working memory following refreshing	1
Mosaic or kaleidoscope: tensions between mereology and etiology	1
fMRI research: do we need statistically better studies, larger studies, or no more studies?	1
Separating minimal from radical embodied cognitive neuroscience	1
ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar	1
Mechanisms for maintaining information in working memory	1
Mechanisms after the end of New Mechanism	1
Visual cortex through the lens of language	1
A way forward for design and analysis of neuroimaging studies of memory consolidation	1
Integrated account for technological cognition: strengths and challenges	1
Spatiotemporal dynamics of selective attention and visual conflict monitoring using a Stroop task	1
Rethinking category selectivity: insights from the macaque inferior temporal cortex	1
On the clinical anatomy of technological cognition	1
Dissociating model architectures from inference computations	1
The hippocampus and implicit memory (by any other name)	1
Autonomous semantics and syntax on-demand in neurocomputational models of language	1
Look to the behavior—but first, define it: toward a behavioral taxonomy of vision	1
Beyond prediction: comments on the format of natural intelligence	1
Mixed and ambiguous emotions can be studied with verbal irony	1
Advancing mechanistic explanations through natural and artificial embodied cognitive systems	1
The hippocampus and implicit memory	1
Catching the drift: EEG microstate dynamics resemble time-on-task changes in mind wandering and sustained attention	1
‘Working memory is a distributed dynamic process’	1
Leveraging ventral temporal cortex's primary role in object recognition	1
Auditory facilitation in deterministic versus stochastic worlds	1
An integrated account for technological cognition	1
Area PFt is the parietal hub for goal-directed complex tool use, whether physical or digital	1
Causal investigation of mid-frontal theta activity in memory guided visual search	1
The pattern of intra-/inter-hemispheric interactions of left and right hemispheres in visual word processing	1
Non-Markovian systems, phenomenology, and the challenges of capturing meaning and context – comment on Parr, Pezzulo, and Friston (2025)	1
TMS must not harm participants: guidelines for evaluating TMS protocol safety	1

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