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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of affordances in technological cognition	26
What is technology-specific in technological cognition?	22
Relational properties as a source of variation for object representation in OTC	18
Hippocampal activity supporting working memory is contingent upon specific task demands	18
Seeking cognitive and neural specificity in occipitotemporal cortex	16
What does the hippocampus do during working-memory tasks? A cognitive-neuropsychological perspective	15
Closing the box	14
Understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions – integrating neurophenomenology and literary studies	11
Theoretical strategies for an embodied cognitive neuroscience: Mechanistic explanations of brain-body-environment systems	11
A network-level perspective on technological cognition	10
In defense of categories	10
Toward a cognitive neuroscience of technology	8
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
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
The diversity of possible constitutive components in cognitive neurosciences	5
Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention	5
Concerns about confounds: False memory as an explanation for a hippocampus-supported implicit eye-movement-based relational memory effect	4
Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex	4
Facial distortions as a critical test for models of the organization of visual function	4
Unconscious processing effects manifest only if conscious processing is excluded	4
Enriching the neurocognitive model of technological cognition: the role of emotional and reward-related processes	3
The dead salmon strikes again: Reports of unconscious processing in the hippocampus may reflect Type-I error	3
Imposing vs finding unity	3

Visual input statistics and behavioral relevance jointly constrain higher visual cortex organization	3
Role of the prefrontal cortex and executive functions in basic emotions recognition: evidence from patients with focal damage to the prefrontal cortex	3
When perception fades, the hippocampus may support implicit memory	3
Visuo-spatial working memory abilities modulate mental rotation: Evidence from event-related potentials	3
The hippocampus and long-term memory	3
How deep will you go? Hierarchy in predictive coding and transformers	2
Increasing statistical power in functional MRI through permutation and multivariate statistics	2
An integrated account for technological cognition	2
Do we need to reconceptualize emotions?	2
Causal investigation of mid-frontal theta activity in memory guided visual search	2
fMRI research: do we need statistically better studies, larger studies, or no more studies?	2
Mosaic or kaleidoscope: tensions between mereology and etiology	2
Mechanistic explanation and the integration between language and action	2
Reassessing hippocampal contributions to implicit memory: a call for conceptual clarity, methodological rigor, and increased measures of awareness	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
Area PFt is the parietal hub for goal-directed complex tool use, whether physical or digital	2
Autonomous semantics and syntax on-demand in neurocomputational models of language	2
Counterfactual imagination impairs memory for true actions: EEG and behavioural evidence	2
ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar	1
Integrated account for technological cognition: strengths and challenges	1
Look to the behavior—but first, define it: toward a behavioral taxonomy of vision	1
MA-EM: A neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality	1
Paying attention to process	1
A feature-based generalizable prediction model for both perceptual and abstract reasoning	1
Non-Markovian systems, phenomenology, and the challenges of capturing meaning and context – comment on Parr, Pezzulo, and Friston (2025)	1
Mechanisms after the end of New Mechanism	1
Leveraging ventral temporal cortex's primary role in object recognition	1
On the clinical anatomy of technological cognition	1
The pattern of intra-/inter-hemispheric interactions of left and right hemispheres in visual word processing	1
TMS must not harm participants: guidelines for evaluating TMS protocol safety	1
Beyond prediction: comments on the format of natural intelligence	1
Rethinking category selectivity: insights from the macaque inferior temporal cortex	1
Dissociating model architectures from inference computations	1
Spatiotemporal dynamics of selective attention and visual conflict monitoring using a Stroop task	1
Hippocampal involvement in working memory following refreshing	1
Hippocampal activity in working memory tasks: sparse, yet relevant	1
An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Examination of the Neural Responses to Emotional and Movement-Related Images	1
Mixed and ambiguous emotions can be studied with verbal irony	1
Advancing mechanistic explanations through natural and artificial embodied cognitive systems	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
Finally putting the horse before the cart?	1
Separating minimal from radical embodied cognitive neuroscience	1
From framework to function: sharpening digital tool use within technological cognition	1
Auditory facilitation in deterministic versus stochastic worlds	1
The hippocampus and implicit memory (by any other name)	1
‘Working memory is a distributed dynamic process’	1
A way forward for design and analysis of neuroimaging studies of memory consolidation	1
Can we distinguish mixed from ambiguous emotions and morality?	1
Mechanisms for maintaining information in working memory	1
Catching the drift: EEG microstate dynamics resemble time-on-task changes in mind wandering and sustained attention	1

The hippocampus and implicit memory	1
Half-listening or zoned out? It’s about the same: the impact of attentional state on word processing in context	1
Visual cortex through the lens of language	1
Beyond embodiment: Rethinking the integration of cognitive neuroscience and mechanistic explanations	1