OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cognitive Psychology is 2. 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
Auditory distraction can be studied online! A direct comparison between in-Person and online experimentation	2
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
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	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
The application of condition C on cataphoric pronoun resolution for Chinese learners of English: evidence from eye-tracking during reading	2
Cognitive skills, individual differences, and nonverbal interview methods in children’s eyewitness recall	2
The key to the observation–inflation effect: the simulation degree of action videos vs. verb–noun phrases	2
With concreteness details fade: dissociative effect of labelling of concrete and abstract stimuli on memory	2
Verbal overshadowing at an immediate Task-Test delay is independent of Video-Task delay	2
Is there an infidelity-based reproductive processing advantage in adaptive memory? Effects of survival processing and jealousy processing on recall performance	2
Two faces of grit–perseverance: Is it always good to exert grit?	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 role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	2
Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation	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
Reasoning strategy moderates the transition between slow and fast reasoning	2
Does learning to write and type make a difference in letter recognition and discrimination in primary school children?	2
Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity	2
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	2
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	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
Practicing retrieval in university teaching: short-answer questions are beneficial, whereas multiple-choice questions are not	2
The role of theory of mind, executive function and language on children's lying behaviour	2
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	2
Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	2
Effects of thought suppression on automatic retrieval of memory: the role of monitoring and cognitive load	2
Evidence for a group-level performance optimum and performance-neutral adaptation in a procedural task	2
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	2
Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control	2
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	2