OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cognitive Psychology is 4. 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
Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit	9
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
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	8
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
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
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
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
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
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