Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 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
Editorial Board109
Editorial Board70
Linking homeostasis to reinforcement learning: internal state control of motivated behavior53
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?49
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use44
What episodic memory reveals about the default mode network41
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls41
How dopamine enables learning from aversion39
What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes35
Cue-approach training for food behavior32
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making32
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees31
Editorial Board30
My path from traditional to critical quantitative methods: integrating racial equity frameworks in quantitative research28
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models28
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia28
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches27
Occam’s razor misapplied: Pinpointing the role of the default mode network in creativity27
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing25
Using cognitive load tasks to constrain hypotheses about the role of the default mode network in social cognition: uncertainty reduction as a unifying framework25
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning25
Editorial Board23
Editorial Board23
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use23
The Circular Science of Mind and Behavior: Control Theory Across Brains and Machines22
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do22
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference22
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies22
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality22
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?22
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates21
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions20
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work20
The default mode network and the complex dynamics of ongoing experience: an attractor-state perspective20
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness19
Theoretical and philosophical perspectives on race and racism in education18
The brain that controls itself18
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss18
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning17
Cognition is an emergent property17
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution17
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior16
The basal ganglia as a policy-based controller16
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids16
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice16
Facing the heat: behavioral and molecular underpinnings of heat stress in bumblebees16
The default network and social cognition: new insights and future directions16
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities15
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems15
Addressing loneliness through AI: philosophical perspectives15
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms15
Timescales of dopamine release in the striatum as a window into hierarchical control15
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?15
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior15
Embracing the void: exploring the relationship between chronic loneliness and social touch14
An individual–collective–systemic behavioral climate intervention framework14
School funding and racist causality: historical and QuantCrit perspectives14
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval14
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild14
Corrigendum to ‘On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents’ [Curr Opin Behav Sci, vol 43, February 2022, Pages 118–124]14
Editorial Board13
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization13
The default mode network: where spontaneous thought meets memory consolidation13
Editorial Board13
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts13
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions13
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review13
Integrating foundational theories of loneliness to develop effective interventions13
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?12
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects12
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function12
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution12
The brain bases of regulation of eating behaviors: the role of reward, executive control, and valuation processes, and new paths to propel the field forward12
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective12
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors11
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors11
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness10
Editorial Board10
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights10
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review10
Editorial Board10
Editorial Board10
Mental navigation as a default computational mode in human cognition10
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic10
Priors and proprioceptive predictions10
Understanding the association between loneliness and social media: a revised theoretical model10
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action10
Erratum to “The basal forebrain serves social information processing” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 56 (2024) 101372]10
Impactful environmental psychology needs formal theories9
A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system9
Positivity and collective climate action9
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience9
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech9
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions9
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace9
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition9
Extended cognition and life after death9
Recent advancements in optimising transcranial electrical stimulation: reducing response variability through individualised stimulation8
Approaching dehumanizing interactions: Joint consideration of other-, meta-, and self-dehumanization8
Editorial Board8
Embodying the default mode network: self-related processing from an embodied perspective8
The adaptive value of behavioral inhibition8
Diversity of REM sleep8
A critical reflection on behavioural difficulty: proposing a barrier-first approach8
Stress-induced modulation of maternal behavior and mesolimbic dopamine function8
Response inhibition training and measures of explicit and implicit food valuation8
Socially scripted vocal learning in primates8
Toward a computational role for locus coeruleus/norepinephrine arousal systems8
The mathematical brain at rest8
Reflections on my engagement with QuantCrit: operating as a lens or corrective surgery?8
Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic8
Back to basics: human rights violations and dehumanization8
Editorial Board8
Editorial Board8
The Black Mecca as method: a QuantCrit heuristic of Ethnoraciality in the Atlanta Metropolis7
Editorial Board7
Toward model-based design of causal manipulations of brain circuits with high spatiotemporal precision7
Relating mind-blanking to the content and dynamics of spontaneous thinking7
Targeting replay and default mode network dynamics during rest in psychiatric disorders7
The impact of mathematics teachers’ professional competence on instructional quality and students’ mathematics learning outcomes7
Evolution of neural circuits in the origin of behavioral novelty7
Developmental exposure to cannabis compromises dopamine system function and behavior7
Is the time’s flow an illusion? — the issue of the temporality of the conscious experience7
Clinical services for problematic internet usage7
Anticorrelation emerges within a dynamic and competitive neural landscape7
Dopaminergic computations for perceptual decisions7
Shifting attention to orient or avoid: a unifying account of the tail of the striatum and its dopaminergic inputs6
Sensorimotor foundations of self-consciousness in utero6
Cortico-cortical paired-associative stimulation to investigate the plasticity of cortico-cortical visual networks in humans6
Exposure/isolation measures of segregation through a QuantCrit lens: implications for education research6
Psychological interventions for loneliness: a narrative review of recent findings and suggestions for future research6
Toward an ion‐channel‐centric approach to ultrasound neuromodulation6
Complementary roles of serotonin and dopamine in model-based learning6
The future of work loneliness research6
Unraveling sequence learning in obsessive–compulsive disorder6
Five frames for racial equity in elementary science principal decision-making6
The ‘Go’s and the ‘No-Go’s of response-inhibition training to food: lessons learned from trials6
Naturalness shapes public support for sustainability technology6
Cerebellar roots of aggression in violent psychopathic offenders: evidence from structural neuroimaging studies6
Transcranial magnetic stimulation6
Theories of consciousness and a life worth living6
Social norms and loneliness6
Perinatal loneliness: prevalence, impacts, drivers, interventions, solutions and future directions6
Social cognition in degenerative cerebellar ataxias6
Resilience to stress and trauma: a narrative review of neuroimaging research6
The role of natural history in animal cognition6
Gaming disorder: current research directions6
Pathways between digital activity and depressed mood in adolescence: outlining a developmental model integrating risk, reactivity, resilience and reciprocity6
Editorial Board6
Problematic Internet usage: brain imaging findings5
Individual differences in mathematical cognition: a Bert's eye view5
The social foundations of collective climate action5
Editorial Board5
The default mode subnetworks’ involvement in diverse cognitive transitions suggests a role in external update of internal models5
Cerebellar imaging with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging: approaches, challenges, and potential5
Special challenges in mathematics education in Sub Sahara Africa5
Toward a better understanding of durable behavior change by food Go/NoGo training5
Embedding historical and contextual sensitivity in QuantCrit approaches to STEM identity research: implications for data collection and analysis techniques5
A “thinking animal” in conflict: studying wild elephant cognition in the shadow of anthropogenic change5
Inhuman animals: moving dehumanization into the domain of human–animal relations5
Evolution of neural mechanisms underlying the behavioral diversification of weakly electric fishes5
Animals are diverse: distinct forms of animalized dehumanization5
Dehumanization: insights from developmental science5
The default mode network in a hierarchical generative model of the brain5
A review of consistency in climate action: The role of social interactions and institutions in cultivating positive behavioral spillover5
Editorial Board5
Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations5
From sensory motor and perceptual development to primary consciousness in the fetus: converging neural, behavioral, and imaging correlates of cognition-mediated emergent transitions5
Socioeconomic status and brain development: insights and theoretical perspectives on deficit, adaptation, and resilience5
Screening for forms of problematic Internet usage5
Problematic Internet use (PIU) in youth: a brief literature review of selected topics4
Prefrontal cortex drives the flexibility of whole-brain orchestration of cognition4
A continuum of predictive control between motor and mental actions: language production as a test case4
Corrigendum to: “Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 51(2023) 101277]4
How do animals navigate the urban jungle? A review of cognition in urban-adapted animals4
Behavioral strategies and neural mechanisms underlying short-range navigation in teleost fish4
Editorial Board4
Does cognitive control have a general stability/flexibility tradeoff problem?4
Rethinking cause & consequence in U.S. school funding inequality: a future role for quant crit perspectives4
A review of QuantCrit-informed approaches to group participants and explore ethno-racial heterogeneity in educational research4
Problematic video-streaming: a short review4
A review of critical race mixed methodology in education: current trends and future directions4
Molecular heterogeneity and development of the ventral tegmental area4
On the role of behavioural modes during temporally extended decision-making and their neural substrates4
Looking backward to look forward: Tracing critical quantitative perspectives in critical consciousness research4
The most difficult thing in the world: a sociocultural perspective on putting pro-environmental thoughts into action4
Core of consciousness: the default mode network as nexus of convergence and divergence in the human brain4
Elaborating humanness: a direct comparison between mindful and mindless entities4
A meta-analytic structural equation analysis of the Gateway Belief Model: highlighting scientific consensus increases support for public action on climate change4
Advanced cognition in wild chimpanzees: lessons from observational studies4
Diencephalic modulation of the hippocampus in affective and cognitive behavior4
Neurostimulation to improve cognitive flexibility4
“But why?” Dopamine and causal learning4
0.32264995574951