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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	16
How attentional resources of the same or across sensory modalities and task load affect cognitive performance? A multi-sensory integration study	16
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	14
Mind wandering and contextual binding	13
“Threatening” mechanism of disorder: evidence from attentional bias	13
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	13
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	11
The cognition of programming: logical reasoning, algebra and vocabulary skills predict programming performance following an introductory computing course	11
Self-reference and cognitive effort: source memory for affectively neutral information is impaired following negative compared to positive self-referential processing	10
Children with developmental dyslexia show an increased variable foreperiod effect	9
Right-hemisphere coherence to speech at pre-reading stages predicts reading performance one year later	9
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	9
Revisiting the debate on germane cognitive load versus germane resources	9
Spaced example-based learning facilitates advanced mathematics learning in college students	8
Primary-school children’s knowledge of transitivity of probability and of bounds of probability	8
Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	8
The whole is more than the sum of its parts – addressing insight problem solving concurrently from a cognitive and an affective perspective	8
Are we taking too many pictures? An investigation of the impact of smartphone photography on memory	8
“Let the music play” – experimental study on background music and time preference	7
Emotional arousal enhances the impact of long-term memory in attention	7
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	6
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	6
Moving distractors and moving targets: combining a response priming task with moving prime stimuli and a flanker task	6
Is there an infidelity-based reproductive processing advantage in adaptive memory? Effects of survival processing and jealousy processing on recall performance	6
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	5

Sleep and incubation: using problem reactivation during sleep to study forgetting fixation and unconscious processing during sleep incubation	5
Sweet taste brings happiness, but happiness does not taste sweet: the unidirectionality of taste-emotion metaphoric association	5
Age of acquisition effects on the decomposition of compound words	5
The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity	5
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	5
Beyond input: Language learners produce novel relative clause types without exposure.	5
Positive effects of a beta-frequency binaural beats programme on memory	5
Recollective experience mediates the relation between visual perspective and psychological closeness in autobiographical memory	5
The role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	5
The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not	5
Unraveling the distinct ambiguities of happiness and fear: neurodynamic and machine learning perspectives	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
The ruminative cycle in smokers: on the relationship between cigarette smoking behaviour, rumination, difficulties in thought suppression, and emotion regulation	4
Colour terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application	4
The modulation of emotional awareness using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques: a literature review on TMS and tDCS	4
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	4
The categorical relational process mechanism in enactment learning: effects of divided attention and categorical cues	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
Conspiracy theories: why they are believed and how they can be challenged	3
The benefits of thinking about past successes. Recalling agency leads to greater susceptibility to positive cues in ambiguous facial expressions	3
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	3
Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control	3
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	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
Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure	3
Does learning to write and type make a difference in letter recognition and discrimination in primary school children?	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
Identifying obstacles to transfer of critical thinking skills	3
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	3
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	3
Temporal course of the sign effect in intertemporal choice	2
The bilingual effect on cognitive development: not an executive function advantage, but a differentiation of mental abilities	2
Cognitive skills, individual differences, and nonverbal interview methods in children’s eyewitness recall	2
Developmental gender differences in children in a spatial recognition task	2
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	2
No easy fix for belief bias during syllogistic reasoning?	2
Dual system in the ultimatum game: evidence from the process dissociation procedure	2
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	2
Time course of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations	2
Warning—taboo words ahead! Avoiding attentional capture by spoken taboo distractors	2
Attraction effect in crowded decision spaces: exploring the impact of decoys in choices among numerous options	2
Creativity: definitions and computability	2
Leaping across the mental canyon: higher-order long-distance analogical retrieval	2
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	2
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	2

Effects of gum chewing and repetitive motor activity on sustained attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder	2
Motor affordance or gender-stereotyped nature of physical activity – what is more important for the mental rotation performance of female athletes?	2
Working memory capacity, removal efficiency and event specific memory as predictors of misinformation reliance	2
Conditional learning abilities in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome	2
With concreteness details fade: dissociative effect of labelling of concrete and abstract stimuli on memory	2
Sex differences in mental rotation: the role of stereotyped material, perceived performance and extrinsic spatial ability	2
The effect of ageing on confrontation naming in healthy older adults: a three-level meta-analysis	2
Using intentional and incidental encoding instructions to test the transfer inappropriate processing shift account of verbal overshadowing	2
Success starts with the first step: insight problem-solving stages and their underlying cognitive strategies	2
The contribution of static and dynamic tests to the assessment of visuospatial abilities among adult males	2
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	2
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	2
Test–retest reliability and practice effects on a shortened version of the Category Switch Task – a pilot study	2
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	2
Attribution of feature magnitudes is influenced by trained reading-writing direction	2
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	2
Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation	2
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	2
Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions	2
What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading	2
How state anxiety influences retrospective time perception: the moderated mediation of perceived control and memory bias	2
Emerging perspectives on distraction and task interruptions: metacognition, cognitive control, and facilitation-Part 2	2
Partial habituation to disruption by irrelevant emotive speech—evidence for duplex-mechanism account	2
A dual strategy account of individual differences in information processing in contingency judgments	2
Why do people pursue goals sequentially when they try to balance cost and utility?	2
Seeing red as anger or romance: an emotion categorisation task	2
Effects of thought suppression on automatic retrieval of memory: the role of monitoring and cognitive load	2