OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Cognition is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Review of Sarah Duffy and Michele Feist. Time, metaphor, and language: A cognitive science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 209 pp.	21
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies	13
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM	13
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures	11
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language	11
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language	11
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian	11
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.	10
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: evidence from event-related brain potentials	10
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood	10
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’	10
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states	9
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic	8
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning	8
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study	8
Attentionally modulated motor-to-semantic priming: evidence from a property verification task	8
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison	7
“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data	7
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development	7
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers	7
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types	6
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation	6
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options	6
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers	6
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position	6

Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances	6
Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews	6
Ecological affordances and fire metaphors: the salience of injury	6
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?	6
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity	6
A multifactorial analysis of anaphoric form choice in mandarin	5
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning	5
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations	5
Labelling and iconicity facilitate visual categorisation and discrimination	5
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection	5
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin	5
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing	5
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited	5
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM	5
The effects of interword spacing and morphological complexity in reading Thai: an eye-tracking study	5
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM	5
Within- and cross-language semantic effects on oral word translation with a word flanker paradigm – ADDENDUM	5
Cognitive mechanisms in simile and metaphor comprehension	4
Lei Lei and Dilin Liu, Conducting Sentiment Analysis. Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. 104. ISBN 978-1-108-82921-2 (paperback), 978-1-108-90967-9 (E-book)	4
Observers use gesture to disambiguate contrastive expressions of preference	4
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists	4
What is German ‘Angst’ (fear/anxiety)? A corpus approach based on frame analysis	4
From co-speech actions to co-speech gestures? Effects of visibility and information structure on cross-modal synchronization	4
Emotive content and sleep enhance memory for metaphorical language	4
The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events	4
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space	4
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing	4
Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances?	4
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception	4
Gesture, prosodic prominence and stresslessness in Indonesian	4
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?	3
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension	3
Metaphor and multisensoriality drive appreciation in print advertising: an experimental study of visual and linguistic synaesthetic metaphors	3
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints	3
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children	3
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification	3
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates	3
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences	3
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm	3
Adriana Gordejuela Senosiáin, Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 185 pp. ISBN: 978-0-367-72131-2.	3
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings	3
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation	3
Perceptual structure of opposites across sensory modalities	3
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time	3
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use	3
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management	3
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension	3
Russian verbal aspect and the activation of event knowledge: processing typical and atypical location adverbials in perfective and imperfective sentences	3