OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of npj Science of Learning 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	74
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	41
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task	40
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance	39
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	35
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	34
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components	32
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	24
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people	22
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	22
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity	22
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	21
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	21
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	21
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	20
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	19
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality	18
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	18
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	17
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	17
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	16
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	16
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics	15
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	15
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	15

Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	15
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	14
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education	14
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning	14
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	14
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	13
Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words	13
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	13
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	13
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	13
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	13
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions	12
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	12
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS	11
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	11
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school	11
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	11
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	11
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	11
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	10
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research	10
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	10
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	10
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training	9
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	9
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance	9
Learning reduces ingroup bias more with perceived losses than gains across cultures	9
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	9
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	9
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	9
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	9
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	8
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	8
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	8
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	8
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	8
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation	8
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	8
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	8
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	7
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	7
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	7
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication	7
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	7
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity	7
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	7
Growth mindset and socioeconomic inequality in academic achievement across seventy-three PISA countries	6
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa	6
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology	6
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	6

Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory	6
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts	6
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning	6
Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception	5
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	5
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach	5
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education	5
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	5
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	5
Timing of reward cues alters the interaction between reward and interest on memory over time	5
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation	5
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness	5
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training	5
Divergent effects of mindsets on performance trajectories	5
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning	5
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection	5
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children	5
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	5
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide	5
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults	5
Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people	5
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension	5
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	4
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia	4
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant	4
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula	4
Effect of cognitive control strategies on young children’s attention and emotion during coding learning	4
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality	4
Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education	4
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	4
Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence	4
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities	4
Sleep duration and subject-specific academic performance among adolescents in China	4
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers	4
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder	4
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills	4
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation	4
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training	4
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	3
Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions	3
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain	3
Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning	3
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets	3
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration	3
A dual-process model for cognitive training	3
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	3
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)	3
A qualitative systematic review on AI empowered self-regulated learning in higher education	3
Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners	3
Personalized and gamified auditory-cognitive training improves naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults with hearing loss	3
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain	3
Associations of adolescent menstrual symptoms with school absences and educational attainment: analysis of a prospective cohort study	3
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	3
Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education	3
An ecological approach to understanding transitions and tensions in complex learning contexts	3
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text	3
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status	3
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	2
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty	2
Neural signals gradually shift towards inferior frontal gyrus and long-term effects following facial imitation-based social learning	2
The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension	2
Modulating social learning-induced evaluation updating during human sleep	2
Author Correction: The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	2
A methodological perspective on learning in the developing brain	2
Protection of savings by reducing the salience of opposing errors	2
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance	2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions	2
Cerebellar interpositus nucleus exhibits time-dependent errors and predictive responses	2
Action video games normalise the phonemic awareness in pre-readers at risk for developmental dyslexia	2
Triggers of curiosity in social constructivist classroom discourse	2
Dissociable sensory, motor, and visuomotor predictive functions	2
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	2
EEG analysis of brain dynamics in a simulated multi-task and multi-stage learning environment	2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	2
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions	2
Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing	2
Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students	2
A working memory dependent dual process model of the testing effect	2