OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Cognition is 4. 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
Review of Sarah Duffy and Michele Feist. Time, metaphor, and language: A cognitive science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 209 pp.	24
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian	16
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’	15
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood	15
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies	14
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM	14
Testing the Event Visibility Hypothesis in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)	12
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language	12
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language	12
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures	12
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study	11
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning	11
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states	11
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic	10
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison	10
Visual similarity and lexical access in an Arabic-derived script: evidence from Persian	10
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types	9
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation	9
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position	9
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances	9
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers	9
Attentionally modulated motor-to-semantic priming: evidence from a property verification task	9
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development	9
Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews	8
The interaction of language and music: a psycholinguistic approach for a shared pitch mechanism (?)	8

Ecological affordances and fire metaphors: the salience of injury	8
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers	7
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options	7
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?	7
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity	7
A multifactorial analysis of anaphoric form choice in mandarin	6
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM	6
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations	6
Within- and cross-language semantic effects on oral word translation with a word flanker paradigm – ADDENDUM	6
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection	6
Behavioural dimensions reveal lead-lag patterns in the cognitive internalization of permissive subjects in English, Dutch and German	5
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited	5
What’s seen as iconic in a sign and what’s not? Evidence from iconicity ratings by signers and non-signers on the HKSL lexicon	5
Information, iconicity and Zipf’s law of abbreviation in visual languages of global comics	5
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning	5
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing	5
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM	5
From co-speech actions to co-speech gestures? Effects of visibility and information structure on cross-modal synchronization	5
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)	5
Emotive content and sleep enhance memory for metaphorical language	5
Figurative language is (implicitly) more dynamic and emotionally deeper than literal language – CORRIGENDUM	5
The effects of interword spacing and morphological complexity in reading Thai: an eye-tracking study	5
Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances?	5
Contrasting different context sources in processing lifetime-tense (in)congruence: evidence from cumulative self-paced reading time experiments	5
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception	5
Labelling and iconicity facilitate visual categorisation and discrimination	5
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin	5
Gesture, prosodic prominence and stresslessness in Indonesian	4
Early predictors of auditory comprehension in 36-month-old children born with risk factors for brain damage	4
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences	4
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?	4
Does linguistic similarity matter in the foreign language effect in decision making and emotional resonance?	4
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm	4
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use	4
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space	4
Speech pauses facilitate older adults’ comprehension of complex sentences: an EEG study on Chinese garden-path sentence processing	4
The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events	4
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time	4
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation	4
The effect of L2 proficiency on L1 and L2 embodied effects in a bilingual context – ADDENDUM	4
Perceptual structure of opposites across sensory modalities	4
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management	4
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists	4
Cognitive mechanisms in simile and metaphor comprehension	4
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension	4
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing	4
What is German ‘Angst’ (fear/anxiety)? A corpus approach based on frame analysis	4
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints	4
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates	4
Metaphor and multisensoriality drive appreciation in print advertising: an experimental study of visual and linguistic synaesthetic metaphors	4