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

Article	Citations
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	32
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	19
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	18
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	17
On a creativity that is mundane, cooperative, and material	14
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	12
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	12
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	11
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	10
Cognitive biases in individuals with chronic pain: interpretation, recall and recognition of pain/illness-related information	10
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	10
The effects of non-native accented speech on learning and anxiety: a role for working memory?	10
Reappraise and be mindful! The key role of cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness in the association between openness to experience and divergent thinking	9
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	9
An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown	9
Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit	9
Retrieval-induced forgetting of eye movements	8
Comprehending dynamic directions: the role of perceptual simulations	8
Developmental trajectory of children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decision for acting and testifying informants	8
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	8
Learning words that look the same across languages: examining the translation-ambiguity disadvantage in naïve Dutch learners	7
The value of social position	7
The psychological distance effect on conspiracy belief: the roles of cognitive factors and crisis awareness	7
Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory	7
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
Information sources and congruency modulate preference-based decision-making processes	6
Do bilinguals have an advantage in prospective memory?	6
I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage	6
L1-L2 valence-specific effects in recall and recognition bias in sequential bilinguals	6
Influence of sadness on level-2 visual perspective-taking: exploring egocentric and altercentric interferences	6
Social models influence visual perspective taking in memory	6
Assessing the objective and subjective impacts of nature for reducing cognitive fatigue	6
Metacognitive awareness is needed for analogical transfer between dissimilar tasks	6
The effect of emotion regulation on executive function	5
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	5
Can verbal instructions aimed at being more reflective reduce threat-induced impulsivity?	5
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	5
Computable creativity: lessons learned from mental imagery research	5
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	5
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	5
Cognitive and temperamental determinants of susceptibility to orientation illusions on an example of the Poggendorff and Zöllner figures	5
Count on the €uro! Interference between the size and the value of the coins in the judgment of the monetary value	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
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	4
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	4
Effects of task characteristics and task-switching on remote associates test problem solving	4
Effects of irrelevant emotionally negative stimuli on strategy selection and eye-fixation correlates	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
Association between visual imagery characteristics and vividness ratings: examining one component of imagery experience in vividness measurement scales	4
Bayesian modelling of the latent structure of individual differences in the numerical size-congruity effect	4
When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning	4
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	4
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	4
Retrieval practice effect and individual differences: current status and future directions	4
Is a bullet spherical or dangerous? Classifier-aligned object categorisation in speakers of Mandarin Chinese	4
Evidence for a group-level performance optimum and performance-neutral adaptation in a procedural task	3
Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control	3
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	3
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	3
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	3
Evaluating the effectiveness of L2 morphosyntax instructional methods in laboratory and classroom studies: a review	3
Reasoning strategy moderates the transition between slow and fast reasoning	3
No evidence for a vibrotactile changing-state effect in serial recall: a multi-experimental replication attempt	3
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	3
The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity	3
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	3
Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	3
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	3
Truth, lies, and consequences: differential effects of deception on memory ratings and accuracy	3
Carbon footprint judgments in context: does surrounding context produce assimilation or contrast?	3
Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity	3
The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not	3
What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading	3

Conflict detection across various probabilistic reasoning tasks	2
Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation	2
Accurate in presence and inefficient in absence: how the presence of criminal evidence affects legal judgements	2
How state anxiety influences retrospective time perception: the moderated mediation of perceived control and memory bias	2
Cognitive skills, individual differences, and nonverbal interview methods in children’s eyewitness recall	2
Fast logic and belief-bias: it’s less how smart you are than how you think	2
Sharing traumatic experiences: earlier denial increases endorsement of misinformation from a co-witness	2
Morphological cues as an aid to word learning: a cross-situational word learning study	2
Foreseeing interruptions in dynamic environments may undermine the adequacy between perceived and observable task performance	2
Cooperation in nature: a nature-based intervention improves collaboration and creativity	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
Getting colour: response priming with motion primes and colour targets without a priori response binding	2
Using retrieval practice to remediate boredom and multitasking in learning	2
Self and mother referential processing in phonological false memory	2
False information is harder to debunk after gist repetitions than verbatim repetitions	2
Event-Related Potentials (ERP) evidence of predictive coding account of time perception in the sub-second range oddball tasks	2
The role of theory of mind, executive function and language on children's lying behaviour	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
Development of conditional learning abilities in children from 3 to 12 years of age	2
Primed into security: can attachment security priming affect attachment-related biases on early attention?	2
Awe increases stimulus-specific curiosity	1
Interactions between context and content in elementary syllogistic reasoning	1
Attention allocation in elite football refereeing: conceptual, empirical, and applied considerations	1
How spatial attention affects the decision process: looking through the lens of Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model & EEG analysis	1
Mental rotation in motion: postural indicators of egocentric perspective shifts	1
Attraction effect in crowded decision spaces: exploring the impact of decoys in choices among numerous options	1
The role of attention in social decision-making: an eye-tracking study in a repeated dictator game	1
Correction	1
Attentional processing of preserved face and scrambled face distractors in preschool children with autism spectrum condition	1
Confirming the existence of a within-array novel pop-out effect using a novel procedure	1
Enhancing visuo-spatial working memory: the role of visual support in preschoolers and adults	1
Exploration of an adventure therapy case study through a trauma-informed neurobiological lens	1
Test–retest reliability and practice effects on a shortened version of the Category Switch Task – a pilot study	1
When all glasses look half empty: a computational model of reference dependent evaluation to explain depression	1
Evaluating the effects of brief mindfulness practice on attentional control and episodic memory	1
Observation suppresses affective interference effects in high affective focus reaction time tasks	1
The role of inner speech in emotion recognition in children with and without developmental language disorder	1
Conditional learning abilities in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome	1
Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions	1
Examining neurophysiological responses to immersive nature and environmental images	1
Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure	1
“Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach	1
Exploring the role of word segmentation on parafoveal processing during Chinese reading	1
The negative footprint illusion is exacerbated by the numerosity of environment-friendly additions: unveiling the underpinning mechanisms	1
I lie because I am good at: psychopathic traits do not influence the effects of fabrication on memory	1
Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control	1
Why I am not a Turing machine	1
Effects of irrelevant speech on semantic and phonological judgments of Chinese characters	1
Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting	1
Auditory distraction of vocal-motor behaviour by different components of song: testing an interference-by-process account	1
The ruminative cycle in smokers: on the relationship between cigarette smoking behaviour, rumination, difficulties in thought suppression, and emotion regulation	1
A task-interruption study on the activation of the primary task during the processing of the secondary task	1
L1 effects on the processing of L2 compounds: an eye-tracking study	1
Effects of leading questions and feedback on metamemory in eyewitness memory	1
Does performance on the cognitive reflection test indicate cognitive miserliness? Evidence from response times, working memory capacity, and warnings	1
Emerging perspectives on distraction and task interruptions—Part III: contexts, mechanisms, and metacognitive blind spots	1
A preliminary investigation of proximal effects of media multitasking on executive functioning	1
Testing the effect of perceived stress and emotion regulation in the relationship between age and executive function	1
Time course of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations	1
Olfactory and visual vs. multimodal landmark processing in human wayfinding: a virtual reality experiment	1
Epilogue on verbal overshadowing effect: how face-Naming an unfamiliar face can bypass the deleterious effect of verbal description?	1