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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness	57
Are there sex differences in brain activity during long-term memory? A systematic review and fMRI activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis	32
Feeling & knowing: Making minds conscious	22
Development of sex differences in the human brain	20
The Readiness Potential reflects planning-based expectation, not uncertainty, in the timing of action	19
Predictive processing as an empirical theory for consciousness science	18
‘Doublecheck: a sensory confirmation is required to own a robotic hand, sending a command to feel in charge of it’	16
Human brain activity and functional connectivity as memories age from one hour to one month	14
The dynamic and task-dependent representational transformation between the motor and sensory systems during speech production	14
‘Orch OR’ is the most complete, and most easily falsifiable theory of consciousness	13
6 Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation of mPFC improves sustained attention and modulates alpha phase synchronization and power in dorsal attention network	12
Sex differences in functional network dynamics observed using coactivation pattern analysis	9
Sex differences in the brain	6
Sex/gender differences in brain activity – it’s time for a biopsychosocial approach to cognitive neuroscience	6
Dynamic activity patterns in the anterior temporal lobe represents object semantics	5
The hippocampus and long-term memory	5
Imagined paralysis alters somatosensory evoked-potentials	4
Supracategorical fear information revealed by aversively conditioning multiple categories	4
Sex-related differences in brain dynamism at rest as neural correlates of positive and negative valence system constructs	4
Neural bases of motivated forgetting of autobiographical memories	4
Sex differences in the brain: More than just male or female	4
Criteria for empirical theories of consciousness should focus on the explanatory power of mechanisms, not on functional equivalence	3
Selective directed forgetting is mediated by the lateral prefrontal cortex: Preliminary evidence with transcranial direct current stimulation	3
The contributions of eye gaze fixations and target-lure similarity to behavioral and fMRI indices of pattern separation and pattern completion	3
Assessing criteria for theories	3

Theories of consciousness are solutions in need of problems	3
The hard problem makes the easy problems hard - a reply to Doerig et al.	3
Somatosensory evoked potentials that index lateral inhibition are modulated according to the mode of perceptual processing: comparing or combining multi-digit tactile motion	3
Does working memory activate the hippocampus during the late delay period?	3
What does the hippocampus do during working-memory tasks? A cognitive-neuropsychological perspective	3
A Unified Neural Theory of Conscious Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, and Knowing	2
The Hard Problem is Mainly Hard Work	2
The effect of feedback valence and source on perception and metacognition: An fMRI investigation	2
It’s time to move past biases against sex differences research: Commentary on Spets and Slotnick	2
The pattern of intra-/inter-hemispheric interactions of left and right hemispheres in visual word processing	2
‘Working memory is a distributed dynamic process’	2
Higher-order theories do just fine	2
Electrophysiological sign of stronger auditory processing in females than males during passive listening	2
High confidence spatial long-term memories produce greater cortical activity in males than females	2
Hippocampal involvement in working memory following refreshing	2
Mixed and ambiguous emotions can be studied with verbal irony	1
Hippocampal activity supporting working memory is contingent upon specific task demands	1
Structural variation within the left globus pallidus is associated with task-switching, not stimulus updating or distractor filtering	1
Inquiring the librarian about the location of memory	1
Big data approaches to identifying sex differences in long-term memory	1
On the contribution of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex to the neural representation of past memories	1
Hippocampal activity in working memory tasks: sparse, yet relevant	1
Does adding beer to coffee enhance the activation of drinks? An ERP study of semantic category priming	1
Sex/gender differences in the neural substrate of long-term memory	1
Sensorimotor representation of observed dyadic actions with varying agent involvement: an EEG mu study	1
Evidence for the standard model, multiple trace theory, or the unified theory?	1
No convincing evidence the hippocampus is associated with working memory	1
Changes in brain activity and connectivity as memories age	1
Women versus men: A critical comparison for understanding the neurobiology of memory	1
Response to commentaries on ‘hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness’	1
Is loss avoidance differentially rewarding in adolescents versus adults? Differences in ventral striatum and anterior insula activation during the anticipation of potential monetary losses	1
MA-EM: A neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality	1
Reasonable criteria for functionalists; scarce criteria from phenomenological perspective	1
It’s time for sex in cognitive neuroscience	1
Importance of examining stimulus type in fMRI studies of sex differences in memory recall	1
Specifying ‘where’ and ‘what’ is critical for testing hippocampal contributions to memory retrieval	1
Role of the prefrontal cortex and executive functions in basic emotions recognition: evidence from patients with focal damage to the prefrontal cortex	1
Hard but so valuable to define hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness	1
A way forward for design and analysis of neuroimaging studies of memory consolidation	1
Decoding the emotional valence of future thoughts	1
The value of research on sexual dimorphism in neuroimaging	1
Mechanisms for maintaining information in working memory	1