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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
How attentional resources of the same or across sensory modalities and task load affect cognitive performance? A multi-sensory integration study	16
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	16
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	14
Moving distractors and moving targets: combining a response priming task with moving prime stimuli and a flanker task	13
The cognition of programming: logical reasoning, algebra and vocabulary skills predict programming performance following an introductory computing course	13
Self-reference and cognitive effort: source memory for affectively neutral information is impaired following negative compared to positive self-referential processing	13
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	13
Revisiting the debate on germane cognitive load versus germane resources	11
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	10
Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	9
Is there an infidelity-based reproductive processing advantage in adaptive memory? Effects of survival processing and jealousy processing on recall performance	9
Primary-school children’s knowledge of transitivity of probability and of bounds of probability	9
Are we taking too many pictures? An investigation of the impact of smartphone photography on memory	9
The whole is more than the sum of its parts – addressing insight problem solving concurrently from a cognitive and an affective perspective	9
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	8
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	8
“Let the music play” – experimental study on background music and time preference	8
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	8
The ruminative cycle in smokers: on the relationship between cigarette smoking behaviour, rumination, difficulties in thought suppression, and emotion regulation	7
Unraveling the distinct ambiguities of happiness and fear: neurodynamic and machine learning perspectives	7
Mind wandering and contextual binding	6
The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not	6
Age of acquisition effects on the decomposition of compound words	6
Sweet taste brings happiness, but happiness does not taste sweet: the unidirectionality of taste-emotion metaphoric association	6
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	5

Sleep and incubation: using problem reactivation during sleep to study forgetting fixation and unconscious processing during sleep incubation	5
Right-hemisphere coherence to speech at pre-reading stages predicts reading performance one year later	5
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	5
Children with developmental dyslexia show an increased variable foreperiod effect	5
“Threatening” mechanism of disorder: evidence from attentional bias	5
The role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	5
Beyond input: Language learners produce novel relative clause types without exposure.	5
Spaced example-based learning facilitates advanced mathematics learning in college students	5
Recollective experience mediates the relation between visual perspective and psychological closeness in autobiographical memory	4
Representing negated statements: when false possibilities also play in the mind	4
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	4
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	4
The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity	4
Colour terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application	4
Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control	4
Positive effects of a beta-frequency binaural beats programme on memory	4
Eye-movement methodology reveals a shift in attention from threat to neutral stimuli with self-reported symptoms of social anxiety across children, adolescents and adults	4
What is my teacher talking about? Effects of displaying the teacher’s gaze and mouse cursor cues in video lectures on students’ learning	4
The modulation of emotional awareness using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques: a literature review on TMS and tDCS	4
The benefits of thinking about past successes. Recalling agency leads to greater susceptibility to positive cues in ambiguous facial expressions	3
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	3
Conspiracy theories: why they are believed and how they can be challenged	3
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	3
Distinct patterns of emotional processing in ADHD and anxiety. Evidence from an eye-movement Go/No-Go task	3
Semantic verbal fluency: network analysis in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease	3
Seeing red as anger or romance: an emotion categorisation task	3
Individuals with low arithmetic abilities are sensitive to interference during knowledge retrieval from long-term memory across different domains	3
Gut thinking and eye tracking: evidence for a central preference heuristic	3
The approximate number system and mathematics achievement: it's complicated. A thorough investigation of different ANS measures and executive functions in mathematics achievement in children	3
The mental model theory of free choice permissions and paradoxical disjunctive inferences	3
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	3
Does learning to write and type make a difference in letter recognition and discrimination in primary school children?	3
Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure	3
Creativity: definitions and computability	2
With concreteness details fade: dissociative effect of labelling of concrete and abstract stimuli on memory	2
The bilingual effect on cognitive development: not an executive function advantage, but a differentiation of mental abilities	2
Motor affordance or gender-stereotyped nature of physical activity – what is more important for the mental rotation performance of female athletes?	2
Partial habituation to disruption by irrelevant emotive speech—evidence for duplex-mechanism account	2
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	2
Emerging perspectives on distraction and task interruptions: metacognition, cognitive control, and facilitation-Part 2	2
Effects of gum chewing and repetitive motor activity on sustained attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder	2
Dual system in the ultimatum game: evidence from the process dissociation procedure	2
Time course of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations	2
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	2
Test–retest reliability and practice effects on a shortened version of the Category Switch Task – a pilot study	2
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	2
The contribution of static and dynamic tests to the assessment of visuospatial abilities among adult males	2
Attraction effect in crowded decision spaces: exploring the impact of decoys in choices among numerous options	2
Success starts with the first step: insight problem-solving stages and their underlying cognitive strategies	2
Warning—taboo words ahead! Avoiding attentional capture by spoken taboo distractors	2

Attribution of feature magnitudes is influenced by trained reading-writing direction	2
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	2
High perceived abdication in joint consumption promotes interpersonal trust	2
Sex differences in mental rotation: the role of stereotyped material, perceived performance and extrinsic spatial ability	2
Conditional learning abilities in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome	2
Working memory capacity, removal efficiency and event specific memory as predictors of misinformation reliance	2
Identifying obstacles to transfer of critical thinking skills	2
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	2
What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading	2
The effect of ageing on confrontation naming in healthy older adults: a three-level meta-analysis	2
How state anxiety influences retrospective time perception: the moderated mediation of perceived control and memory bias	2
Why do people pursue goals sequentially when they try to balance cost and utility?	2
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	2
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	2
Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions	2
Cognitive skills, individual differences, and nonverbal interview methods in children’s eyewitness recall	2
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	2
Developmental gender differences in children in a spatial recognition task	2
Using intentional and incidental encoding instructions to test the transfer inappropriate processing shift account of verbal overshadowing	2
Leaping across the mental canyon: higher-order long-distance analogical retrieval	2
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	2
Effects of thought suppression on automatic retrieval of memory: the role of monitoring and cognitive load	2
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	2
Temporal course of the sign effect in intertemporal choice	2
A dual strategy account of individual differences in information processing in contingency judgments	2
No easy fix for belief bias during syllogistic reasoning?	2
Reappraise and be mindful! The key role of cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness in the association between openness to experience and divergent thinking	1
Event-Related Potentials (ERP) evidence of predictive coding account of time perception in the sub-second range oddball tasks	1
Mood states effect retrieval not encoding in item-method directed forgetting	1
The role of contextual factors on neurocognitive processing: a systematic review with meta-analysis of the effect of response types in cognitive tasks	1
Cognitive load theory and its measurement: a study of secondary tasks in relation to working memory	1
Practicing retrieval in university teaching: short-answer questions are beneficial, whereas multiple-choice questions are not	1
Developmental trajectory of children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decision for acting and testifying informants	1
Two routes to the same place: learning from quick closed-book essays versus open-book essays	1
An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown	1
Detailed analysis of risk-taking in association with impulsivity and aggression in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder type I	1
The impact of circumscribed interest distractors on attentional orienting in young children with autism: eye-tracking evidence from the remote distractor paradigm	1
Speed or duration? Effects of implicit stimulus attributes on perceived duration	1
The neighbourhood frequency effect in naming is influenced by substituted-letter confusability and lexical skills	1
Cognitive characteristics of “pure” Tourette Syndrome and what we can learn from neurological study	1
Does autonoetic consciousness in episodic memory rely on recall from a first-person perspective?	1
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	1
A comment on arguments of mental model theory of causation	1
Gesturing the solution of a problem-solving task can speed up subsequent performance	1
Thinking about meaning: level-of-processing modulates semantic auditory distraction	1
How spatial attention affects the decision process: looking through the lens of Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model & EEG analysis	1
The effect of different delivery modes of misinformation on false memories in adolescents and adults	1
Sex-dependent effects of threatening emotion on perceived gaze direction	1
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	1
On pleasures of the mind related to humour and insight problem solving: an investigation of people’s awareness of what they like and why	1
The combined effect of music-induced emotions and neuromodulation on economic decision making: a tDCS study	1
Observation suppresses affective interference effects in high affective focus reaction time tasks	1
Accurate in presence and inefficient in absence: how the presence of criminal evidence affects legal judgements	1
Too depleted to comprehend: resource depletion impairs situation model comprehension	1
Evaluating the effects of brief mindfulness practice on attentional control and episodic memory	1
A task-interruption study on the activation of the primary task during the processing of the secondary task	1
Awe increases stimulus-specific curiosity	1
Frequent media multitasking is not associated with better cognitive flexibility	1
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	1
Application of a Bayesian approach for exploring the impact of syllable frequency in handwritten picture naming	1
Putting things into perspective	1
The role of theory of mind, executive function and language on children's lying behaviour	1
The lasting effects of sandwiched events	1
Can the negative footprint illusion be eliminated by summative priming?	1
Does testing enhance mediation in paired-associate learning?	1
Conceptual and methodological considerations to the negative footprint illusion: a reply to Gorissen et al. (2024)	1
Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation	1
Naïve intuitions about what constitutes “an opposite process”	1
Does memory bias help in maintaining self-esteem? Exploring the role of self-verification motive in memory bias	1
Verbal overshadowing and decision criterion effects on recognition memory for faces	1
The effect of sadness on cognitive control: evidence from behaviour and ERPs	1