OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of npj Science of Learning 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions	61
Mechanisms of offline motor learning at a microscale of seconds in large-scale crowdsourced data	49
Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences	47
The social brain of language: grounding second language learning in social interaction	40
First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability	33
Brain dynamics of (a)typical reading development—a review of longitudinal studies	33
Non-invasive peripheral nerve stimulation selectively enhances speech category learning in adults	28
Growth mindset and academic outcomes: a comparison of US and Chinese students	26
How to optimize knowledge construction in the brain	25
Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence	25
Optimized collusion prevention for online exams during social distancing	24
Diversity of interneurons in the lateral and basal amygdala	23
Developmental brain dynamics of numerical and arithmetic abilities	21
An fMRI study of error monitoring in Montessori and traditionally-schooled children	19
Common health conditions in childhood and adolescence, school absence, and educational attainment: Mendelian randomization study	18
Toward an understanding of when prior knowledge helps or hinders learning	15
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	15
An fMRI study of scientists with a Ph.D. in physics confronted with naive ideas in science	15
Statistical learning occurs during practice while high-order rule learning during rest period	15
Interleaved practice enhances memory and problem-solving ability in undergraduate physics	14
An artificial intelligence approach for selecting effective teacher communication strategies in autism education	14
Persistent association between family socioeconomic status and primary school performance in Britain over 95 years	13
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	12
Associations between school enjoyment at age 6 and later educational achievement: evidence from a UK cohort study	10
The effect of language on performance: do gendered languages fail women in maths?	10

Effects of context on the neural correlates of attention in a college classroom	9
How to capture developmental brain dynamics: gaps and solutions	8
Schooling and Covid-19: lessons from recent research on EdTech	8
The rational use of causal inference to guide reinforcement learning strengthens with age	8
Trajectories of performance change indicate multiple dissociable links between working memory and fluid intelligence	8
Children’s neurodevelopment of reading is affected by China’s language input system in the information era	7
Rhythm, reading, and sound processing in the brain in preschool children	7
The practical utility of genetic screening in school settings	7
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	7
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula	7
Enhancing learning and retention with distinctive virtual reality environments and mental context reinstatement	7
Optimizing practice scheduling requires quantitative tracking of individual item performance	7
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	7
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	6
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning	6
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	6
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology	6
Longitudinal relationship of favorable weight change to academic performance in children	5
Redesigning navigational aids using virtual global landmarks to improve spatial knowledge retrieval	5
Change by challenge: A common genetic basis behind childhood cognitive development and cognitive training	5
Keep it simple: streamlining book illustrations improves attention and comprehension in beginning readers	5
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	5
Dissipation of reactive inhibition is sufficient to explain post-rest improvements in motor sequence learning	5
Neural computations in children’s third-party interventions are modulated by their parents’ moral values	5
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	5
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children	4
Measuring and forecasting progress in education: what about early childhood?	4
Mindset and perceived parental support of autonomy safeguard adolescents’ autonomous motivation during COVID-19 home-based learning	4
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	4
Language and nonlanguage factors in foreign language learning: evidence for the learning condition hypothesis	4
Enhancing senior high school student engagement and academic performance using an inclusive and scalable inquiry-based program	4
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills	4
The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet	4
Understanding the role of eye movement consistency in face recognition and autism through integrating deep neural networks and hidden Markov models	4
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	4
Multivariate genome-wide covariance analyses of literacy, language and working memory skills reveal distinct etiologies	3
Knee flexion of saxophone players anticipates tonal context of music	3
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	3
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	3
Using the force: STEM knowledge and experience construct shared neural representations of engineering concepts	3
Improving online and offline gain from repetitive practice using anodal tDCS at dorsal premotor cortex	3
A RCT for assessment of active human-centred learning finds teacher-centric non-human teaching of evolution optimal	3
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	2
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	2
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	2
Who’s learning? Using within-family studies to understand personalized learning	2
A methodological perspective on learning in the developing brain	2
The effect of classroom environment on literacy development	2
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	2
A dual-process model for cognitive training	2

Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets	2
Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing	2
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities	2
Genetic associations with learning over 100 days of practice	2
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	2
The International Science and Evidence-based Education Assessment	2
Cognitive training enhances growth mindset in children through plasticity of cortico-striatal circuits	2
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation	1
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training	1
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	1
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	1
A micro-genesis account of longer-form reinforcement learning in structured and unstructured environments	1
Stable, flexible, common, and distinct behaviors support rule-based and information-integration category learning	1
The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	1
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	1
Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects	1
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	1
Recurrent individual treatment assignment: a treatment policy approach to account for heterogeneous treatment effects	1
Effects of working memory load and CS-US intervals on delay eyeblink conditioning	1
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	1
Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively	1
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	1
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	1