npj Science of Learning

Papers
(The median citation count of npj Science of Learning is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning129
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task73
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant56
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts56
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance47
Longitudinal associations between sedentary behavior types and mathematics ability mediated by externalizing and internalizing problems47
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components37
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching37
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure32
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries31
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness30
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people28
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning28
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment25
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity24
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding24
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers24
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity23
Modulating sleep: slow oscillation and spindle stimulation effects on physiology and memory22
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others22
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics21
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training21
Toward a unified vocabulary for embodiment research challenges and solutions21
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms20
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality20
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance20
Semantic relatedness and the efficacy of retrieval practice19
Reading ability conflates SES creativity gaps19
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents19
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning18
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony18
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood18
Trends in testing effect research: from lab to classroom, but not yet for all learners18
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans17
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education17
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms17
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement17
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts17
Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words17
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning17
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education16
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning16
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword16
Fragmented learning from short videos modulates neural activity and connectivity during memory retrieval16
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions16
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS15
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school15
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently15
Embodied word learning in schools and sustained attention in virtual reality14
Children consider changes in performance over time when reasoning about academic achievements13
Neural patterns reflect conceptual grasp of novice students following first class learning in physics13
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training13
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults13
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research12
Learning reduces ingroup bias more with perceived losses than gains across cultures12
Publisher Correction: How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making12
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential12
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan12
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training11
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance11
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency11
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity11
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?11
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance10
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal10
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions10
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement10
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom10
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics10
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning10
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students9
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation9
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment9
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
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India8
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication8
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
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
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
Growth mindset and socioeconomic inequality in academic achievement across seventy-three PISA countries7
Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory7
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension7
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation7
Deciding for others diminishes model-based decision-making but depends on individual prosociality7
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning7
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology7
Impaired audio-visual associations in dyslexia: evidence beyond linguistic processing7
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts7
Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception6
Differential effects of external noise and situational interest on neurophysiological responses during video based learning6
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers6
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity6
Timing of reward cues alters the interaction between reward and interest on memory over time6
Wakeful targeted memory reactivation during short rest periods modulates early motor learning6
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment6
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education6
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning6
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children6
Neurocognitive academic training to improve symptoms executive functions and Chinese handwriting in children with ADHD6
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection6
Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people6
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness5
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide5
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder5
Effects of videos with whole-body movements on young children’s geography learning5
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula5
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality5
Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education5
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach5
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?5
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers5
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities5
Divergent effects of mindsets on performance trajectories5
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training5
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults5
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia5
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers5
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training5
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain4
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders4
Author Correction: Offline consolidation mechanisms of the retrieval practice effect: an analysis based on EEG signal characteristics4
A qualitative systematic review on AI empowered self-regulated learning in higher education4
A dual-process model for cognitive training4
Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning4
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status4
Effect of cognitive control strategies on young children’s attention and emotion during coding learning4
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant4
Personalized and gamified auditory-cognitive training improves naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults with hearing loss4
Associations of adolescent menstrual symptoms with school absences and educational attainment: analysis of a prospective cohort study4
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality4
Recover or discover: How outcome feedback shapes response patterns within game spaces4
Target configuration determines how and what we learn during sensorimotor adaptation4
An ecological approach to understanding transitions and tensions in complex learning contexts4
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
Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions4
Enhanced word learning and neural synchrony during children’s storytelling4
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration4
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text4
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation4
Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence4
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality3
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions3
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance3
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions3
Neural signals gradually shift towards inferior frontal gyrus and long-term effects following facial imitation-based social learning3
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain3
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)3
EEG analysis of brain dynamics in a simulated multi-task and multi-stage learning environment3
A Bayesian perspective on observers’ inference of group norms3
Cerebellar interpositus nucleus exhibits time-dependent errors and predictive responses3
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions3
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty3
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making3
Protection of savings by reducing the salience of opposing errors3
Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education3
Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students3
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