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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	18
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	17
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	17
On a creativity that is mundane, cooperative, and material	15
Cognitive biases in individuals with chronic pain: interpretation, recall and recognition of pain/illness-related information	12
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	12
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	10
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	10
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	10
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	10
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	10
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	9
Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit	9
Developmental trajectory of children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decision for acting and testifying informants	8
Retrieval-induced forgetting of eye movements	8
An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown	8
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	8
Reappraise and be mindful! The key role of cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness in the association between openness to experience and divergent thinking	8
Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences	7
Semantic similarity and mutual information predicting sentence comprehension: the case of dangling topic construction in Chinese	7
Learning words that look the same across languages: examining the translation-ambiguity disadvantage in naïve Dutch learners	7
The value of social position	7
L1-L2 valence-specific effects in recall and recognition bias in sequential bilinguals	7
Comprehending dynamic directions: the role of perceptual simulations	7
Information sources and congruency modulate preference-based decision-making processes	6

The psychological distance effect on conspiracy belief: the roles of cognitive factors and crisis awareness	6
Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory	6
Social models influence visual perspective taking in memory	6
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	5
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	5
Metacognitive awareness is needed for analogical transfer between dissimilar tasks	5
The effect of emotion regulation on executive function	5
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	5
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	5
An explanation of or -deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences	5
Do bilinguals have an advantage in prospective memory?	5
I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage	5
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	5
Assessing the objective and subjective impacts of nature for reducing cognitive fatigue	5
Influence of sadness on level-2 visual perspective-taking: exploring egocentric and altercentric interferences	5
Computable creativity: lessons learned from mental imagery research	4
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	4
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	4
Mental imagery as a decision-making mode: the comparison of recreational and financial domains	4
Characteristics of fascination: using eye-tracking to explore the impact of spatial frequency on the allocation of attention to nature and urban scenes	4
Is a bullet spherical or dangerous? Classifier-aligned object categorisation in speakers of Mandarin Chinese	4
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	4
Can verbal instructions aimed at being more reflective reduce threat-induced impulsivity?	4
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	4
Sex-dependent effects of threatening emotion on perceived gaze direction	4
When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning	4
Effects of irrelevant emotionally negative stimuli on strategy selection and eye-fixation correlates	4
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	4
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	4
Effects of gum chewing and repetitive motor activity on sustained attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder	4
Association between visual imagery characteristics and vividness ratings: examining one component of imagery experience in vividness measurement scales	4
Evidence for a group-level performance optimum and performance-neutral adaptation in a procedural task	3
Truth, lies, and consequences: differential effects of deception on memory ratings and accuracy	3
The role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	3
Event-related brain potentials study of arithmetic fact retrieval in children with different math achievement levels	3
Effects of task characteristics and task-switching on remote associates test problem solving	3
Bayesian modelling of the latent structure of individual differences in the numerical size-congruity effect	3
Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control	3
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	3
A natural boost to cognitive control? Two pilot studies on nature exposure as a potential modulator of the anterior N2 component and midline frontal theta	3
Retrieval practice effect and individual differences: current status and future directions	3
Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity	3
Two faces of grit–perseverance: Is it always good to exert grit?	3
No evidence for a vibrotactile changing-state effect in serial recall: a multi-experimental replication attempt	3
Reasoning strategy moderates the transition between slow and fast reasoning	3
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	3
Count on the €uro! Interference between the size and the value of the coins in the judgment of the monetary value	3
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	2
The application of condition C on cataphoric pronoun resolution for Chinese learners of English: evidence from eye-tracking during reading	2
Conceptual and methodological considerations to the negative footprint illusion: a reply to Gorissen et al. (2024)	2

Foreseeing interruptions in dynamic environments may undermine the adequacy between perceived and observable task performance	2
Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation	2
The role of theory of mind, executive function and language on children's lying behaviour	2
Using retrieval practice to remediate boredom and multitasking in learning	2
Cognitive skills, individual differences, and nonverbal interview methods in children’s eyewitness recall	2
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	2
Is there an infidelity-based reproductive processing advantage in adaptive memory? Effects of survival processing and jealousy processing on recall performance	2
The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not	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
How state anxiety influences retrospective time perception: the moderated mediation of perceived control and memory bias	2
Self and mother referential processing in phonological false memory	2
Accurate in presence and inefficient in absence: how the presence of criminal evidence affects legal judgements	2
What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading	2
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	2
The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity	2
Getting colour: response priming with motion primes and colour targets without a priori response binding	2
Gesturing the solution of a problem-solving task can speed up subsequent performance	2
Practicing retrieval in university teaching: short-answer questions are beneficial, whereas multiple-choice questions are not	2
Cooperation in nature: a nature-based intervention improves collaboration and creativity	2
Evaluating the effectiveness of L2 morphosyntax instructional methods in laboratory and classroom studies: a review	2
The combined effect of music-induced emotions and neuromodulation on economic decision making: a tDCS study	2
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	2
Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	2
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
How spatial attention affects the decision process: looking through the lens of Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model & EEG analysis	1
Confirming the existence of a within-array novel pop-out effect using a novel procedure	1
Attraction effect in crowded decision spaces: exploring the impact of decoys in choices among numerous options	1
Exploring the role of word segmentation on parafoveal processing during Chinese reading	1
Interactions between context and content in elementary syllogistic reasoning	1
Enhancing visuo-spatial working memory: the role of visual support in preschoolers and adults	1
Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions	1
Navon-induced processing biases fail to affect the recognition of whole faces and isolated facial features	1
Test–retest reliability and practice effects on a shortened version of the Category Switch Task – a pilot study	1
Sharing traumatic experiences: earlier denial increases endorsement of misinformation from a co-witness	1
Mental rotation in motion: postural indicators of egocentric perspective shifts	1
Conflict detection across various probabilistic reasoning tasks	1
Primed into security: can attachment security priming affect attachment-related biases on early attention?	1
The role of inner speech in emotion recognition in children with and without developmental language disorder	1
Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting	1
Awe increases stimulus-specific curiosity	1
The negative footprint illusion is exacerbated by the numerosity of environment-friendly additions: unveiling the underpinning mechanisms	1
Does performance on the cognitive reflection test indicate cognitive miserliness? Evidence from response times, working memory capacity, and warnings	1
A preliminary investigation of proximal effects of media multitasking on executive functioning	1
L1 effects on the processing of L2 compounds: an eye-tracking study	1
Olfactory and visual vs. multimodal landmark processing in human wayfinding: a virtual reality experiment	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
Emerging perspectives on distraction and task interruptions—Part III: contexts, mechanisms, and metacognitive blind spots	1
Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control	1
Attentional processing of preserved face and scrambled face distractors in preschool children with autism spectrum condition	1
Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure	1
The neighbourhood frequency effect in naming is influenced by substituted-letter confusability and lexical skills	1
The role of attention in social decision-making: an eye-tracking study in a repeated dictator game	1
Fast logic and belief-bias: it’s less how smart you are than how you think	1
Attention allocation in elite football refereeing: conceptual, empirical, and applied considerations	1
Correction	1
Effects of irrelevant speech on semantic and phonological judgments of Chinese characters	1
A task-interruption study on the activation of the primary task during the processing of the secondary task	1
Morphological cues as an aid to word learning: a cross-situational word learning study	1
Observation suppresses affective interference effects in high affective focus reaction time tasks	1
Exploration of an adventure therapy case study through a trauma-informed neurobiological lens	1
Conditional learning abilities in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome	1
The metaphor of self/environmental cleanliness in the case of moral concepts: an event-related potential study	1
Time course of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations	1
I lie because I am good at: psychopathic traits do not influence the effects of fabrication on memory	1
Examining neurophysiological responses to immersive nature and environmental images	1
Event-Related Potentials (ERP) evidence of predictive coding account of time perception in the sub-second range oddball tasks	1
“Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach	1
False information is harder to debunk after gist repetitions than verbatim repetitions	1
Development of conditional learning abilities in children from 3 to 12 years of age	1
Testing the effect of perceived stress and emotion regulation in the relationship between age and executive function	1