OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 14. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review	221
Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization	127
Influences of social norms on climate change-related behaviors	123
A guide to the measurement and interpretation of fMRI test-retest reliability	116
Extensive sampling for complete models of individual brains	99
The dimensionality of neural representations for control	97
Positive emotions and climate change	92
Global Warming’s Six Americas: a review and recommendations for climate change communication	80
Meta-learning in natural and artificial intelligence	75
Resource-rational decision making	69
Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance	68
The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience	67
Problematic Internet use (PIU) in youth: a brief literature review of selected topics	63
What do reinforcement learning models measure? Interpreting model parameters in cognition and neuroscience	61
The neuroscience of socioeconomic inequality	60
Habit and climate change	59
We need climate change mitigation and climate change mitigation needs the ‘We’: a state-of-the-art review of social identity effects motivating climate change action	57
Motivated reasoning and climate change	53
Sensitive periods in human development: charting a course for the future	53
Brain activity is not only for thinking	53
Environmental values and identities at the personal and group level	48
Sensitive periods in executive function development	47
Context-dependent outcome encoding in human reinforcement learning	42
Positive affect and behavior change	42
Computation noise in human learning and decision-making: origin, impact, function	41

Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms	39
The role of worldviews in shaping how people appraise climate change	39
Timescales of cognition in the brain	38
Extreme weather experience and climate change opinion	37
Reward and emotion: an affective neuroscience approach	35
The social functions of positive emotions	35
Computational theory-driven studies of reinforcement learning and decision-making in addiction: what have we learned?	35
Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	35
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	34
Characteristics and consequences of co-experienced positive affect: understanding the origins of social skills, social bonds, and caring, healthy communities	34
Mindful positive emotion regulation as a treatment for addiction: from hedonic pleasure to self-transcendent meaning	34
Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting	33
Precision estimates of parallel distributed association networks: evidence for domain specialization and implications for evolution and development	32
Climate change, behavior, and the possibility of spillover effects: recent advances and future directions	32
Meaning makes touch affective	32
Representations of uncertainty: where art thou?	32
The role of executive function in shaping reinforcement learning	31
High-resolution fMRI at 7 Tesla: challenges, promises and recent developments for individual-focused fMRI studies	31
Applying dense-sampling methods to reveal dynamic endocrine modulation of the nervous system	30
Editorial overview: Deep imaging of the individual brain: past, practice, and promise	30
Light through the fog: using precision fMRI data to disentangle the neural substrates of cognitive control	29
Climate change mitigation within the Campbell paradigm: doing the right thing for a reason and against all odds	29
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	28
Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses	28
Development of face processing: are there critical or sensitive periods?	28
Learning from other minds: an optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning	28
Multi-step planning in the brain	28
Is there evidence for sensitive periods in emotional development?	27
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	27
Sweet anticipation and positive emotions in music, groove, and dance	26
Assessing problematic use of social media: where do we stand and what can be improved?	26
Intrinsic reward: potential cognitive and neural mechanisms	26
Improving precision functional mapping routines with multi-echo fMRI	26
Value-free reinforcement learning: policy optimization as a minimal model of operant behavior	25
Latent learning, cognitive maps, and curiosity	25
Sensitive phases in the development of rodent social behavior	25
How positive affect buffers stress responses	25
The current status of Cyberbullying research: a short review of the literature	25
Precision functional mapping of human memory systems	24
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?	24
Predicting attention across time and contexts with functional brain connectivity	23
Differentiating self-touch from social touch	23
Context-sensitive valuation and learning	23
The promise of awake behaving infant fMRI as a deep measure of cognition	22
Sensitive periods in cognitive development: a mutualistic perspective	22
Cognitive maps and novel inferences: a flexibility hierarchy	22
Wild cognition – linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context	22
The self-regulatory affective touch: a speculative framework for the development of executive functioning	21
Understanding how early life effects evolve: progress, gaps, and future directions	21
Expectable environments in early life	20

Finding a balance: modulatory effects of positive affect on attentional and cognitive control	20
Serotonergic modulation of cognitive computations	20
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	20
The evolution of sensitive periods in development: insights from insects	20
Resilience to stress and social touch	20
Human skill learning: expansion, exploration, selection, and refinement	20
The role of C-tactile nerve fibers in human social development	19
Concept formation as a computational cognitive process	19
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	19
Improving autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease by transcranial alternating current stimulation	19
A taxonomy of positive emotions	19
What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?	19
Social touch in virtual reality	19
Caregiving influences on emotional learning and regulation: applying a sensitive period model	19
Psychopathology and positive emotions in daily life	19
Correspondence between functional connectivity and task-related activity patterns within the individual	19
The hierarchical construction of value	19
The psychological structure, social consequences, function, and expression of pride experiences	18
Physiological effects induced by stimulation of cutaneous sensory nerves, with a focus on oxytocin	18
Understanding subprocesses of working memory through the lens of model-based cognitive neuroscience	18
Excessive shopping on the internet: recent trends in compulsive buying-shopping disorder	18
Approach motivation and positive affect	18
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	17
Challenges and opportunities of mesoscopic brain mapping with fMRI	17
Emergence of relational reasoning	17
Neuro-cognitive processes as mediators of psychological treatment effects	17
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	17
How go/no-go training changes behavior: A value-based decision-making perspective	17
Local warming is real: A meta-analysis of the effect of recent temperature on climate change beliefs	16
The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning	16
Environmental neuroeconomics: how neuroscience can inform our understanding of human responses to climate change	16
Social touch — a tool rather than a signal	16
Beyond the dichotomy between field and lab — the importance of studying cognition in context	16
Categorizing the function of positive emotions	16
The paradox of pursuing happiness	16
Editorial overview: Can behavioral science solve the climate crisis?	15
Precision functional mapping of the subcortex and cerebellum	15
Individual differences in mathematical cognition: a Bert's eye view	15
Affective touch: a communication channel for social exchange	15
Comparison of the determinants for positive and negative affect proposed by appraisal theories, goal-directed theories, and predictive processing theories	15
Diving into the deep end: a personal reflection on the MyConnectome study	15
A gene-maturation-environment model for understanding sensitive period effects in musical training	15
The role of the amygdala in processing social and affective touch	14
Explaining discrepancies in the study of maternal effects: the role of context and embryo	14
Nested sensitive periods: how plasticity across the microbiota-gut-brain axis interacts to affect the development of learning and memory	14
Individual subject approaches to mapping sensory-biased and multiple-demand regions in human frontal cortex	14
A role for adaptive developmental plasticity in learning and decision making	14
Same-different conceptualization: a machine vision perspective	14
Pregnancy as an intergenerational conduit of adversity: how nutritional and psychosocial stressors reflect different historical timescales of maternal experience	14
The visual prefrontal cortex of anthropoids: interaction with temporal cortex in decision making and its role in the making of ‘visual animals’	14