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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	65
A micro-genesis account of longer-form reinforcement learning in structured and unstructured environments	40
Differences in spatiotemporal brain network dynamics of Montessori and traditionally schooled students	37
Nudging parents and teachers to improve learning and reduce child labor in Cote d’Ivoire	35
Editorial: Capturing developmental brain dynamics	25
Attenuated conflict self-referential information facilitating conflict resolution	24
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection	22
The two-faced process of learning and the importance of Janus-faced solutions	22
A dual-process model for cognitive training	22
Entering into a self-regulated learning mode prevents detrimental effects of feedback removal on memory	21
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	19
Prevalence of undiagnosed dyslexia in African-American primary school children	19
Applying the science of learning to EdTech evidence evaluations using the EdTech Evidence Evaluation Routine (EVER)	17
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	17
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	15
Disentangling the contribution of individual and social learning processes in human advice-taking behavior	13
Alpha sensory stimulation modulates theta phase during speech-print associative learning	13
A genome-wide association study of Chinese and English language phenotypes in Hong Kong Chinese children	12
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	12
Does students’ awareness of school-track-related stereotypes exacerbate inequalities in education?	12
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	11
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	10
Dissipation of reactive inhibition is sufficient to explain post-rest improvements in motor sequence learning	9
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	9
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	9

Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	9
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	9
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	9
Native learning ability and not age determines the effects of brain stimulation	9
Transcranial direct current stimulation targeting the bilateral IFG alters cognitive processes during creative ideation	8
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	8
Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	8
Deliberately making miskates: Behavioural consistency under win maximization and loss maximization conditions	7
Teaching resources for the European Open Platform for Prescribing Education (EurOP2E)—a nominal group technique study	7
Interplay of socioeconomic status, cognition, and school performance in the ABCD sample	7
Understanding protective and risk factors affecting adolescents’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Realizing the potential of mobile interventions for education	7
Change by challenge: A common genetic basis behind childhood cognitive development and cognitive training	6
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training	6
Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects	6
Gender Inequality is negatively associated with academic achievement for both boys and girls	6
Author Correction: Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects	6
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions	6
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance	5
The practical utility of genetic screening in school settings	5
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain	5
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	5
Seeking the neural representation of statistical properties in print during implicit processing of visual words	5
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	5
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	5
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education	4
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	4
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	4
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	4
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach	4
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	4
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	4
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	4
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty	4
Development of performance and learning rate evaluation models in robot-assisted surgery using electroencephalography and eye-tracking	4
Redesigning navigational aids using virtual global landmarks to improve spatial knowledge retrieval	4
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	3
Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively	3
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)	3
Genetic associations with learning over 100 days of practice	3
Alpha neurofeedback training improves visual working memory in healthy individuals	3
Developmental brain dynamics of numerical and arithmetic abilities	3
Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences	3
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	3
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	3
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	3
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality	3
Body-part specificity for learning of multiple prior distributions in human coincidence timing	3
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults	3
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	3

Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder	3
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	3
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	3
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	3
No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details	2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	2
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	2
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills	2
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	2
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers	2
An update on recent advances in targeted memory reactivation during sleep	2
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	2
The effect of classroom environment on literacy development	2
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	2
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	2
Fostering inclusion in EEG measures of pediatric brain activity	2
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	2
An artificial intelligence approach for selecting effective teacher communication strategies in autism education	2
Rhythm, reading, and sound processing in the brain in preschool children	2
Knee flexion of saxophone players anticipates tonal context of music	2
Improving online and offline gain from repetitive practice using anodal tDCS at dorsal premotor cortex	2
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	2
How to capture developmental brain dynamics: gaps and solutions	2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions	1
Enhancing mathematical learning outcomes through a low-cost single-channel BCI system	1
First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability	1
The effect of language on performance: do gendered languages fail women in maths?	1
A randomized controlled trial on the digital socio-emotional competence training Zirkus Empathico for preschoolers	1
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	1
The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	1
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia	1
Inequality in pandemic effects on school track placement and the role of social and academic embeddedness	1
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	1
Neural computations in children’s third-party interventions are modulated by their parents’ moral values	1
A working memory dependent dual process model of the testing effect	1
Effects of working memory load and CS-US intervals on delay eyeblink conditioning	1
Neglecting students’ socio-emotional skills magnified learning losses during the pandemic	1
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	1
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities	1
A systematic review of AI literacy scales	1
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	1
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	1
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	1
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	1
The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension	1
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation	1
Optimized collusion prevention for online exams during social distancing	1
Trajectories of performance change indicate multiple dissociable links between working memory and fluid intelligence	1
Exploring brain plasticity in developmental dyslexia through implicit sequence learning	1
COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes. New global evidence from PISA	1
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula	1
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	1
Author Correction: The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	1