OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Research-Principles and Implications is 5. 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
Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces	83
Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society	65
The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect	58
Face mask type affects audiovisual speech intelligibility and subjective listening effort in young and older adults	46
Perceived truth of statements and simulated social media postings: an experimental investigation of source credibility, repeated exposure, and presentation format	33
Beyond the beauty of occlusion: medical masks increase facial attractiveness more than other face coverings	33
Improving college students’ fact-checking strategies through lateral reading instruction in a general education civics course	30
Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation	28
Face masks have emotion-dependent dissociable effects on accuracy and confidence in identifying facial expressions of emotion	27
Updating our understanding of situation awareness in relation to remote operators of autonomous vehicles	26
Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions	26
Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories for COVID-19 fake news	26
How do we measure attention? Using factor analysis to establish construct validity of neuropsychological tests	22
Face masks disrupt holistic processing and face perception in school-age children	22
Communication with face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic for adults with hearing loss	22
The scent of attraction and the smell of success: crossmodal influences on person perception	20
Self-explaining roads: What does visual cognition tell us about designing safer roads?	20
The relationship between political affiliation and beliefs about sources of “fake news”	19
The impact of predictability on dual-task performance and implications for resource-sharing accounts	19
Adapting implementation science for higher education research: the systematic study of implementing evidence-based practices in college classrooms	18
Does race impact speech perception? An account of accented speech in two different multilingual locales	18
Nevertheless, partisanship persisted: fake news warnings help briefly, but bias returns with time	17
Humans versus AI: whether and why we prefer human-created compared to AI-created artwork	17
You don’t have to tell a story! A registered report testing the effectiveness of narrative versus non-narrative misinformation corrections	17
Ethnoracial disparities in cognition are associated with multiple socioeconomic status-stress pathways	16

Why spatial is special in education, learning, and everyday activities	16
Face mask use in healthcare settings: effects on communication, cognition, listening effort and strategies for amelioration	16
Masked emotions: Do face mask patterns and colors affect the recognition of emotions?	15
A three-factor benefits framework for understanding consumer preference for scented household products: psychological interactions and implications for future development	15
Measuring the effects of misinformation exposure and beliefs on behavioural intentions: a COVID-19 vaccination study	15
The role of analytical reasoning and source credibility on the evaluation of real and fake full-length news articles	14
Cross-cultural differences in visuo-spatial processing and the culture-fairness of visuo-spatial intelligence tests: an integrative review and a model for matrices tasks	14
More than skin deep: about the influence of self-relevant avatars on inhibitory control	13
Impact of mask use on face recognition: an eye-tracking study	13
Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation	12
Individual differences in cognitive offloading: a comparison of intention offloading, pattern copy, and short-term memory capacity	12
Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed	12
Visual communication via the design of food and beverage packaging	12
PTSD is associated with impaired event processing and memory for everyday events	11
An initial accuracy focus reduces the effect of prior exposure on perceived accuracy of news headlines	11
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia and their relationship with cognitive and emotional executive functions	10
The effect of implicit racial bias on recognition of other-race faces	10
Individual differences in social intelligence and perception of emotion expression of masked and unmasked faces	10
How the wisdom of crowds, and of the crowd within, are affected by expertise	10
Visual search behavior and performance in luggage screening: effects of time pressure, automation aid, and target expectancy	10
Face masks affect emotion categorisation, age estimation, recognition, and gender classification from faces	9
Face masks versus sunglasses: limited effects of time and individual differences in the ability to judge facial identity and social traits	9
Great expectations: minor differences in initial instructions have a major impact on visual search in the absence of feedback	8
The effects of face coverings, own-ethnicity biases, and attitudes on emotion recognition	8
Wielding a gun increases judgments of others as holding guns: a randomized controlled trial	8
Effects of widespread community use of face masks on communication, participation, and quality of life in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
How do face masks impact communication amongst deaf/HoH people?	8
The effect of expertise, target usefulness and image structure on visual search	8
From “satisfaction of search” to “subsequent search misses”: a review of multiple-target search errors across radiology and cognitive science	8
Domain-general cognitive motivation: evidence from economic decision-making	7
Are estimates of faces’ ages less accurate when they wear sunglasses or face masks and do these disguises make it harder to later recognise the faces when undisguised?	7
That person is now with or without a mask: how encoding context modulates identity recognition	7
Curiosity and the desire for agency: wait, wait … don’t tell me!	7
Transparent masks reduce the negative impact of opaque masks on understanding emotional states but not on sharing them	7
Typing expertise in a large student population	7
When experience does not promote expertise: security professionals fail to detect low prevalence fake IDs	7
Speaking with a KN95 face mask: a within-subjects study on speaker adaptation and strategies to improve intelligibility	7
Eye movements reflect expertise development in hybrid search	7
The challenge of cognitive science for medical diagnosis	7
A starring role for inference in the neurocognition of visual narratives	6
Causal theory error in college students’ understanding of science studies	6
When and why do people act on flawed science? Effects of anecdotes and prior beliefs on evidence-based decision-making	6
Cognitive perspectives on maintaining physicians’ medical expertise: II. Acquiring, maintaining, and updating cognitive skills	6
Real-time prediction of short-timescale fluctuations in cognitive workload	6
Improving face identification of mask-wearing individuals	6
Do concerns about COVID-19 impair sustained attention?	6
Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training	6
The illusion of absence: how a common feature of magic shows can explain a class of road accidents	6
Group decisions based on confidence weighted majority voting	6
Serial dependence in the perceptual judgments of radiologists	6

Non-monotonic developmental trend of holistic processing in visual expertise: the case of Chinese character recognition	6
Self-reported mask-related worrying reduces relative avoidance bias toward unmasked faces in individuals with low Covid19 anxiety syndrome	6
How can basic research on spatial cognition enhance the visual accessibility of architecture for people with low vision?	5
Testing encoding specificity and the diagnostic feature-detection theory of eyewitness identification, with implications for showups, lineups, and partially disguised perpetrators	5
Audience immersion: validating attentional and physiological measures against self-report	5
Visual search under physical effort is faster but more vulnerable to distractor interference	5
What makes online teaching spatial? Examining the connections between K-12 teachers’ spatial skills, affect, and their use of spatial pedagogy during remote instruction	5
Effects of individual and dyadic decision-making and normative reference on delay discounting decisions	5
Infodemic: the effect of death-related thoughts on news-sharing	5
Recalling fake news during real news corrections can impair or enhance memory updating: the role of recollection-based retrieval	5
Effects of experience on recognition of speech produced with a face mask	5
The perception of intonational and emotional speech prosody produced with and without a face mask: an exploratory individual differences study	5
Making decisions about health information on social media: a mouse-tracking study	5
Incomplete faces are completed using a more average face	5
Surgical face masks do not impair the decoding of facial expressions of negative affect more severely in older than in younger adults	5
Illusion of knowledge in statistics among clinicians: evaluating the alignment between objective accuracy and subjective confidence, an online survey	5
Face processing in police service: the relationship between laboratory-based assessment of face processing abilities and performance in a real-world identity matching task	5
Domain-general cognitive motivation: Evidence from economic decision-making – Final Registered Report	5
Detecting a familiar person behind the surgical mask: recognition without identification among masked versus sunglasses-covered faces	5