OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Cognitive Psychology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	20
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	18
Children with developmental dyslexia show an increased variable foreperiod effect	16
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	14
On a creativity that is mundane, cooperative, and material	13
Why do people pursue goals sequentially when they try to balance cost and utility?	12
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	11
Sex differences in mental rotation: the role of stereotyped material, perceived performance and extrinsic spatial ability	10
Working memory capacity, removal efficiency and event specific memory as predictors of misinformation reliance	10
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	10
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	9
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	8
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	8
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	7
On pleasures of the mind related to humour and insight problem solving: an investigation of people’s awareness of what they like and why	7
The bilingual effect on cognitive development: not an executive function advantage, but a differentiation of mental abilities	7
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	7
Frequent media multitasking is not associated with better cognitive flexibility	7
Developmental trajectory of children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decision for acting and testifying informants	7
An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown	7
Reappraise and be mindful! The key role of cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness in the association between openness to experience and divergent thinking	7
Unusual uses and experiences are good for feeling insightful, but not for problem solving: contributions of schizotypy, divergent thinking, and fluid reasoning, to insight moments	6
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	6
I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage	5
Social models influence visual perspective taking in memory	5

Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory	5
Culture and visual perspective in mental time travel: the relations to psychological well-being	5
An explanation of or-deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences	5
Absence of evidence for underspecification in prenominal relative clause attachment	5
Semantic similarity and mutual information predicting sentence comprehension: the case of dangling topic construction in Chinese	5
Metacognitive awareness is needed for analogical transfer between dissimilar tasks	5
Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences	5
The value of social position	5
Information sources and congruency modulate preference-based decision-making processes	4
Pooling it all together – the role of distractor pool size on stimulus-response binding	4
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	4
Gut thinking and eye tracking: evidence for a central preference heuristic	4
Do bilinguals have an advantage in prospective memory?	4
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	4
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	4
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	4
The effect of emotion regulation on executive function	4
Moving distractors and moving targets: combining a response priming task with moving prime stimuli and a flanker task	4
The modulation of emotional awareness using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques: a literature review on TMS and tDCS	4
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	3
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	3
Effects of gum chewing and repetitive motor activity on sustained attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder	3
Sex-dependent effects of threatening emotion on perceived gaze direction	3
When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning	3
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	3
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	3
Can verbal instructions aimed at being more reflective reduce threat-induced impulsivity?	3
Retrieval practice effect and individual differences: current status and future directions	3
The effect of mindfulness and stereotype threat in mental rotation: a pupillometry study	3
Naïve intuitions about what constitutes “an opposite process”	3
Computable creativity: lessons learned from mental imagery research	3
The mental model theory of free choice permissions and paradoxical disjunctive inferences	3
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	3
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	3
Input modality pairings influence dual task costs, but not cognitive load	3
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	3
Count on the €uro! Interference between the size and the value of the coins in the judgment of the monetary value	2
Bayesian modelling of the latent structure of individual differences in the numerical size-congruity effect	2
Effects of task characteristics and task-switching on remote associates test problem solving	2
Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	2
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	2
Evidence for a group-level performance optimum and performance-neutral adaptation in a procedural task	2
The role of contextual factors on neurocognitive processing: a systematic review with meta-analysis of the effect of response types in cognitive tasks	2
Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control	2
The application of condition C on cataphoric pronoun resolution for Chinese learners of English: evidence from eye-tracking during reading	2
Auditory distraction can be studied online! A direct comparison between in-Person and online experimentation	2
Cognitive skills, individual differences, and nonverbal interview methods in children’s eyewitness recall	2
With concreteness details fade: dissociative effect of labelling of concrete and abstract stimuli on memory	2
Is there an infidelity-based reproductive processing advantage in adaptive memory? Effects of survival processing and jealousy processing on recall performance	2
Event-related brain potentials study of arithmetic fact retrieval in children with different math achievement levels	2

Evidence for reinstating diverse episodic contexts in retrieval-based learning	2
The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not	2
The key to the observation–inflation effect: the simulation degree of action videos vs. verb–noun phrases	2
The role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	2
Verbal overshadowing at an immediate Task-Test delay is independent of Video-Task delay	2
Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation	2
Two faces of grit–perseverance: Is it always good to exert grit?	2
How state anxiety influences retrospective time perception: the moderated mediation of perceived control and memory bias	2
What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading	2
Does learning to write and type make a difference in letter recognition and discrimination in primary school children?	2
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	2
Self-referential processing in false recognition and source monitoring: Self-other differences	2
The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity	2
Characteristics of fascination: using eye-tracking to explore the impact of spatial frequency on the allocation of attention to nature and urban scenes	2
Reasoning strategy moderates the transition between slow and fast reasoning	2
Practicing retrieval in university teaching: short-answer questions are beneficial, whereas multiple-choice questions are not	2
Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity	2
The role of theory of mind, executive function and language on children's lying behaviour	2
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	2
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	2
Effects of thought suppression on automatic retrieval of memory: the role of monitoring and cognitive load	2
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	2
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	2
The metaphor of self/environmental cleanliness in the case of moral concepts: an event-related potential study	1
When even the smartest fail to prioritise: overuse of information can decrease decision accuracy	1
The role of inner speech in emotion recognition in children with and without developmental language disorder	1
Foreseeing interruptions in dynamic environments may undermine the adequacy between perceived and observable task performance	1
Too depleted to comprehend: resource depletion impairs situation model comprehension	1
Attraction effect in crowded decision spaces: exploring the impact of decoys in choices among numerous options	1
Conceptual and methodological considerations to the negative footprint illusion: a reply to Gorissen et al. (2024)	1
Attention allocation in elite football refereeing: conceptual, empirical, and applied considerations	1
The ruminative cycle in smokers: on the relationship between cigarette smoking behaviour, rumination, difficulties in thought suppression, and emotion regulation	1
Evaluating the effects of brief mindfulness practice on attentional control and episodic memory	1
Navon-induced processing biases fail to affect the recognition of whole faces and isolated facial features	1
A task-interruption study on the activation of the primary task during the processing of the secondary task	1
Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions	1
Event-Related Potentials (ERP) evidence of predictive coding account of time perception in the sub-second range oddball tasks	1
Test–retest reliability and practice effects on a shortened version of the Category Switch Task – a pilot study	1
Attentional processing of preserved face and scrambled face distractors in preschool children with autism spectrum condition	1
Temporal course of the sign effect in intertemporal choice	1
The neighbourhood frequency effect in naming is influenced by substituted-letter confusability and lexical skills	1
Exploring the role of word segmentation on parafoveal processing during Chinese reading	1
The combined effect of music-induced emotions and neuromodulation on economic decision making: a tDCS study	1
Out-of-body memory encoding causes third-person perspective at recall	1
False information is harder to debunk after gist repetitions than verbatim repetitions	1
Gesturing the solution of a problem-solving task can speed up subsequent performance	1
Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control	1
Accurate in presence and inefficient in absence: how the presence of criminal evidence affects legal judgements	1
Self and mother referential processing in phonological false memory	1
Olfactory and visual vs. multimodal landmark processing in human wayfinding: a virtual reality experiment	1
Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting	1
Sharing traumatic experiences: earlier denial increases endorsement of misinformation from a co-witness	1
How spatial attention affects the decision process: looking through the lens of Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model & EEG analysis	1
What is my teacher talking about? Effects of displaying the teacher’s gaze and mouse cursor cues in video lectures on students’ learning	1
Implicit effect of abstract/concrete components in the categorization of Chinese words	1
Time course of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations	1
Morphological cues as an aid to word learning: a cross-situational word learning study	1
Conditional learning abilities in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome	1
Enhancing visuo-spatial working memory: the role of visual support in preschoolers and adults	1
Self-reference and cognitive effort: source memory for affectively neutral information is impaired following negative compared to positive self-referential processing	1
Fast logic and belief-bias: it’s less how smart you are than how you think	1
Development of conditional learning abilities in children from 3 to 12 years of age	1
Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure	1
Third-person perspectives in photographs influence visual and spatial perspectives during subsequent memory retrieval	1
Right-hemisphere coherence to speech at pre-reading stages predicts reading performance one year later	1
Cognitive load theory and its measurement: a study of secondary tasks in relation to working memory	1
Confirming the existence of a within-array novel pop-out effect using a novel procedure	1
Awe increases stimulus-specific curiosity	1
Observation suppresses affective interference effects in high affective focus reaction time tasks	1
Primed into security: can attachment security priming affect attachment-related biases on early attention?	1
Attribution of feature magnitudes is influenced by trained reading-writing direction	1
Seeing red as anger or romance: an emotion categorisation task	1
The negative footprint illusion is exacerbated by the numerosity of environment-friendly additions: unveiling the underpinning mechanisms	1
Auditory distraction of vocal-motor behaviour by different components of song: testing an interference-by-process account	1
I lie because I am good at: psychopathic traits do not influence the effects of fabrication on memory	1