OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 15. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	280
Prefrontal cortex drives the flexibility of whole-brain orchestration of cognition	168
Editorial Board	148
What makes people want more impactful climate policy?	135
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	125
Aligning brain and behavior	119
The prediction illusion: perceptual control mechanisms that fool the observer	112
Neurostimulation to improve cognitive flexibility	112
How go/no-go training changes behavior: A value-based decision-making perspective	99
Precision functional mapping of the subcortex and cerebellum	95
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	80
Dopaminergic computations for perceptual decisions	77
Reinforcement-guided learning in frontal neocortex: emerging computational concepts	75
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective	69
Negative affect related traits and the chasm between self-report and neuroscience	69
Excessive shopping on the internet: recent trends in compulsive buying-shopping disorder	69
The evolution of group-mindedness: comparative research on top-down and bottom-up group cooperation in bonobos and chimpanzees	66
Is the time’s flow an illusion? — the issue of the temporality of the conscious experience	64
Insights into control over cognitive flexibility from studies of task-switching	60
Adolescent-to-adult gains in cognitive flexibility are adaptively supported by reward sensitivity, exploration, and neural variability	55
Developmental exposure to cannabis compromises dopamine system function and behavior	51
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	49
Editorial overview: Building and using models of the world	49
Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses	46
Noncortical cognition: integration of information for close-proximity behavioral problem-solving	46

How do animals navigate the urban jungle? A review of cognition in urban-adapted animals	46
‘They deserve it for what they're doing’: dehumanising rhetoric as a facilitator of the recourse to violence against the defenceless	45
The vertebrate retina: a window into the evolution of computation in the brain	44
Pluralism in the determination of death	42
Editorial Board	42
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	41
Editorial Board	41
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Editorial Board	40
The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience	39
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	39
Curriculum standards and textbook coverage of fractions in high-achieving East-Asian countries and the United States	38
Advanced cognition in wild chimpanzees: lessons from observational studies	38
Relating mind-blanking to the content and dynamics of spontaneous thinking	37
Climate change is an intergenerational challenge that requires intergenerationally focused behavioral solutions	37
What is next for the neurobiology of temperament, personality and psychopathology?	36
Wild cognition – linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context	36
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	36
Rejection sensitivity and its relationship to schizotypy and aggression: current status and future directions	35
The basolateral amygdala and lateral hypothalamus bias learning towards motivationally significant events	35
Using cognitive behavioral therapy as the select treatment approach for problematic Internet usage	35
Elaborating humanness: a direct comparison between mindful and mindless entities	34
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	34
Liberty and the pursuit of science denial	33
Emotions as constituents, predictors and outcomes of dehumanization	33
Cortico-cortical paired-associative stimulation to investigate the plasticity of cortico-cortical visual networks in humans	32
Processing and transmission of affective touch in the spinal cord	32
Future directions for cognitive neuroscience in psychiatry: recommendations for biomarker design based on recent test re-test reliability work	31
Interacting with agents without a mind: the case for artificial agents	30
Editorial Board	30
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]	29
Improving precision functional mapping routines with multi-echo fMRI	29
Cognitive flexibility training for impact in real-world settings	29
Habit and climate change	29
Mindful positive emotion regulation as a treatment for addiction: from hedonic pleasure to self-transcendent meaning	28
Computational theory-driven studies of reinforcement learning and decision-making in addiction: what have we learned?	27
Change is on the horizon: call to action for the study of positive emotion and reward in psychopathology	27
Comparison of the determinants for positive and negative affect proposed by appraisal theories, goal-directed theories, and predictive processing theories	26
Concept formation as a computational cognitive process	26
Problematic Internet use (PIU) in youth: a brief literature review of selected topics	26
The impact of mathematics teachers’ professional competence on instructional quality and students’ mathematics learning outcomes	25
Physiological effects induced by stimulation of cutaneous sensory nerves, with a focus on oxytocin	25
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	25
What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?	25
The paradox of pursuing happiness	25
A “thinking animal” in conflict: studying wild elephant cognition in the shadow of anthropogenic change	24
How positive affect buffers stress responses	24
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	24
Rethinking dehumanization, empathy, and burnout in healthcare contexts	23
Climate change cognition and education: given no silver bullet for denial, diverse information-hunks increase global warming acceptance	23

Social touch — a tool rather than a signal	23
Editorial overview: Deep imaging of the individual brain: past, practice, and promise	23
How alien species use cognition to discover, handle, taste, and adopt novel foods	23
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	23
Cognitive flexibility in neurodevelopmental disorders: insights from neuroimaging and neuropsychology	23
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?	22
Cognition in wild lemurs	22
Deep characterization of individual brain-phenotype relations using a multilevel atlas	22
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	22
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	21
Editorial Board	21
The brain bases of regulation of eating behaviors: the role of reward, executive control, and valuation processes, and new paths to propel the field forward	21
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	20
Editorial Board	20
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Social cognition in degenerative cerebellar ataxias	19
Editorial Board	19
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	19
Molecular heterogeneity and development of the ventral tegmental area	19
Carnal pleasures	18
Problematic video-streaming: a short review	18
Multi-step planning in the brain	18
Strepsirrhine movement and navigation: sense and sociality	18
Constructing value signals for food rewards: determinants and the integration	17
Apples and oranges: three criteria for positive emotion typologies	17
The visual prefrontal cortex of anthropoids: interaction with temporal cortex in decision making and its role in the making of ‘visual animals’	17
A comparative framework of inter-individual coordination and pair-bonding	17
Imaging the temporal dynamics of brain states with highly sampled fMRI	17
The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning	17
Editorial overview: Positive affect: taxonomies, mechanisms and applications	16
Differential profiles of cognitive and behavioral inflexibility in addictive disorders	16
Diencephalic modulation of the hippocampus in affective and cognitive behavior	16
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	16
Cue-approach training for food behavior	16
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?	16
Robust capuchin tool use cognition in the wild	16
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	16
The role of executive function in shaping reinforcement learning	16
Cognitive ecology in the wild — advances and challenges in avian cognition research	16
Resilience to stress and trauma: a narrative review of neuroimaging research	15
Ultrasound neuromodulation: planning and validating treatments	15
Designing affective haptic experience for wellness and social communication: where designers need affective neuroscience and psychology	15
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	15
Unraveling sequence learning in obsessive–compulsive disorder	15
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	15
Shifting attention to orient or avoid: a unifying account of the tail of the striatum and its dopaminergic inputs	15
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?	15
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	15
On the role of behavioural modes during temporally extended decision-making and their neural substrates	15
Does cognitive control have a general stability/flexibility tradeoff problem?	15
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger: insights from neuroscience studies and molecular genetics	15