npj Science of Learning

Papers
(The median citation count of npj Science of Learning 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.)
ArticleCitations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant196
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts115
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance87
Longitudinal associations between sedentary behavior types and mathematics ability mediated by externalizing and internalizing problems66
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task60
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning53
Development and validation of a multidimensional scale for AI tutoring acceptance in higher education53
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching45
Curious behaviors in times of uncertainty: dynamics of student question-posing in online educational discussion40
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers36
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people35
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity34
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity33
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning28
Modulating sleep: slow oscillation and spindle stimulation effects on physiology and memory28
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure27
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries26
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components26
Unveiling the impact of goal types: enhancing self-efficacy in rehabilitation robotics25
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding25
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others24
Semantic relatedness and the efficacy of retrieval practice23
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality23
Trends in testing effect research: from lab to classroom, but not yet for all learners23
Reading ability conflates SES creativity gaps23
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony22
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms22
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics22
Toward a unified vocabulary for embodiment research challenges and solutions22
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance22
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents21
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training21
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement20
Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words20
Lab perceptual training and robot-assisted training in improving speech prosody of autistic children20
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts19
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning19
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood19
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms19
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education18
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning18
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning18
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions17
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education17
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword17
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school16
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS16
Benefits of classroom remote microphone technology for inattentive children15
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently15
Neural patterns reflect conceptual grasp of novice students following first class learning in physics15
Embodied word learning in schools and sustained attention in virtual reality15
Publisher Correction: How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making14
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults14
Fragmented learning from short videos modulates neural activity and connectivity during memory retrieval14
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research13
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan13
Children consider changes in performance over time when reasoning about academic achievements13
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential13
High-intensity cardiovascular exercise facilitates online motor skill learning, with no effect of BDNF genotype13
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training12
Learning reduces ingroup bias more with perceived losses than gains across cultures12
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance11
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity11
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics11
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training11
A practical implementation science framework for education11
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement11
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?10
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation10
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency10
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance10
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions9
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal9
Shared genetic architecture of reading and attention disorders using genomic structural equation modeling9
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial9
Question asking practice fosters aspects of curiosity in science content in young children9
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors9
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students9
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment8
Growth mindset and socioeconomic inequality in academic achievement across seventy-three PISA countries8
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India8
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice8
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity8
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication8
Executive functions as mediators of early educational disparities by SES, gender and birth month8
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation8
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology7
Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory7
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation7
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning7
Impaired audio-visual associations in dyslexia: evidence beyond linguistic processing7
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts7
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning7
Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception7
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa7
Multilingualism educational attainment and cognitive development in UK adolescents7
Deciding for others diminishes model-based decision-making but depends on individual prosociality7
Timing of reward cues alters the interaction between reward and interest on memory over time7
Neurocognitive academic training to improve symptoms executive functions and Chinese handwriting in children with ADHD7
Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education6
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach6
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide6
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension6
Wakeful targeted memory reactivation during short rest periods modulates early motor learning6
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity6
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness6
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder6
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults6
Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people6
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment6
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection6
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education6
Divergent effects of mindsets on performance trajectories6
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training6
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children6
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers6
Differential effects of external noise and situational interest on neurophysiological responses during video based learning6
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers5
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia5
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities5
Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence5
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training5
Hypothesis testing governs strategic motor learning5
Effects of videos with whole-body movements on young children’s geography learning5
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Mapping the Montessori mathematics curriculum to Dehaene’s four pillars of learning5
Comparing feedback learning and arousal responses in Down, Fragile X, and Williams syndromes5
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality5
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers5
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant5
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation5
Effect of cognitive control strategies on young children’s attention and emotion during coding learning5
The Role of Eye Movement Consistency in Aging-Related Decline in Face Recognition4
Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions4
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality4
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain4
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets4
Sleep duration and subject-specific academic performance among adolescents in China4
Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners4
Enhanced word learning and neural synchrony during children’s storytelling4
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions4
A dual-process model for cognitive training4
Author Correction: Offline consolidation mechanisms of the retrieval practice effect: an analysis based on EEG signal characteristics4
Recover or discover: How outcome feedback shapes response patterns within game spaces4
Personalized and gamified auditory-cognitive training improves naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults with hearing loss4
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status4
An ecological approach to understanding transitions and tensions in complex learning contexts4
A qualitative systematic review on AI empowered self-regulated learning in higher education4
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making4
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain4
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality4
Associations of adolescent menstrual symptoms with school absences and educational attainment: analysis of a prospective cohort study4
Target configuration determines how and what we learn during sensorimotor adaptation4
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration4
Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning4
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text4
EEG analysis of brain dynamics in a simulated multi-task and multi-stage learning environment4
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance4
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