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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Object recognition ability predicts category learning with medical images	102
When less is not more: the effect of transparent masks on facial attractiveness judgment	76
Combatting rumors around the French election: the memorability and effectiveness of fact-checking articles	51
The hidden arrow in the FedEx logo: Do we really unconsciously “see” it?	50
Individual differences in emerging adults’ spatial abilities: What role do affective factors play?	39
The psychological reality of the learned “p < .05” boundary	32
The effects of testing the relationships among relational concepts	32
That person is now with or without a mask: how encoding context modulates identity recognition	32
Correction: The role of leadership level in college students’ facial emotion recognition: evidence from event-related potential analysis	28
Cognitive perspectives on maintaining physicians’ medical expertise: I. Reimagining Maintenance of Certification to promote lifelong learning	25
Making decisions about health information on social media: a mouse-tracking study	24
Influence of protective clothing and masks on facial trustworthiness in an investment game: insights from a Chinese population study	24
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	24
The impact of AI errors in a human-in-the-loop process	22
Perceptions of artificial intelligence system's aptitude to judge morality and competence amidst the rise of Chatbots	22
Audience immersion: validating attentional and physiological measures against self-report	20
Evaluating convergence between two data visualization literacy assessments	20
The perception of intonational and emotional speech prosody produced with and without a face mask: an exploratory individual differences study	19
Does expressive writing or an instructional intervention reduce the impacts of test anxiety in a college classroom?	17
Assessing the relationship between delay discounting and decisions to engage in various protective behaviors during COVID-19	17
Anger, race, and the neurocognition of threat: attention, inhibition, and error processing during a weapon identification task	17
Cognitive perspectives on maintaining physicians’ medical expertise: III. Strengths and weaknesses of self-assessment	17
Typing expertise in a large student population	17
A direct comparison of sound and vibration as sources of stimulation for a sensory substitution glove	17
Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation	16

Take a load off: examining partial and complete cognitive offloading of medication information	16
The Predation Game: Does dividing attention affect patterns of human foraging?	16
How sign language expertise can influence the effects of face masks on non-linguistic characteristics	14
Testing landmark-specific effects on route navigation in an ecologically valid setting: a simulated driving study	14
How one block of trials influences the next: persistent effects of disease prevalence and feedback on decisions about images of skin lesions in a large online study	13
Different facets of age perception in people with developmental prosopagnosia and “super-recognisers”	13
Transparency improves the accuracy of automation use, but automation confidence information does not	12
The role of focus back effort in the relationships among motivation, interest, and mind wandering: an individual difference perspective	12
Face masks and fake masks: the effect of real and superimposed masks on face matching with super-recognisers, typical observers, and algorithms	11
Beyond minutiae: inferring missing details from global structure in fingerprints	11
Transparent masks reduce the negative impact of opaque masks on understanding emotional states but not on sharing them	11
How do face masks impact communication amongst deaf/HoH people?	10
Online Contingent Attention Training (OCAT): transfer effects to cognitive biases, rumination, and anxiety symptoms from two proof-of-principle studies	10
Perception of direct gaze in a video-conference setting: the effects of position and size	10
Correction: Transparent masks reduce the negative impact of opaque masks on understanding emotional states but not on sharing them	10
Machine translation: Turkish–English bilingual speakers’ accuracy detection of evidentiality and preference of MT	9
Warning signals only support the first action in a sequence	9
Examining post-error performance in a complex multitasking environment	9
Fluid intelligence but not need for cognition is associated with attitude change in response to the correction of misinformation	9
Improving auditory alarm sensitivity during simulated aeronautical decision-making: the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation combined with computerized working memory training	9
Recalling fake news during real news corrections can impair or enhance memory updating: the role of recollection-based retrieval	9
Narrative visualizations: Depicting accumulating risks and increasing trust in data	8
Two face masks are better than one: congruency effects in face matching	8
Effects of task structure and confirmation bias in alternative hypotheses evaluation	8
Developing a novel measure of non-rigid, ductile spatial skill	7
Coping with high advertising exposure: a source-monitoring perspective	7
Spotting missing or wanted people: racial biases in prospective person memory	7
The impact of face coverings on audio-visual contributions to communication with conversational speech	7
Standard experimental paradigm designs and data exclusion practices in cognitive psychology can inadvertently introduce systematic “shadow” biases in participant samples	7
Using objective measures to examine the effect of suspect-filler similarity on eyewitness identification performance - Final Registered Report	7
Curiosity and the desire for agency: wait, wait … don’t tell me!	7
Preregistered test of whether a virtual nose reduces cybersickness	7
Impact of mask use on face recognition: an eye-tracking study	7
Grammatical structures of emoji in Japanese-language text conversations	7
Hip fracture or not? The reversed prevalence effect among non-experts’ diagnosis	7
Can humanoid robots be used as a cognitive offloading tool?	7
How does face mask in COVID-19 pandemic disrupt face learning and recognition in adults with autism spectrum disorder?	6
The interactive functional biases of manual, language and attention systems	6
Icon arrays reduce concern over COVID-19 vaccine side effects: a randomized control study	6
How do students reason about statistical sampling with computer simulations? An integrative review from a grounded cognition perspective	6
Restricting the distribution of visual attention reduces cybersickness	6
Non-monotonic developmental trend of holistic processing in visual expertise: the case of Chinese character recognition	6
To see or not to see: the parallel processing of self-relevance and facial expressions	6
Cue relevance drives early quitting in visual search	6
Anecdotes impact medical decisions even when presented with statistical information or decision aids	6
Investigating the different domains of environmental knowledge acquired from virtual navigation and their relationship to cognitive factors and wayfinding inclinations	6
Bicyclist-evoked arousal and greater attention to bicyclists independently promote safer driving	6
Older adults’ recognition of medical terminology in hospital noise	6
Face masks versus sunglasses: limited effects of time and individual differences in the ability to judge facial identity and social traits	6
Wakeful resting and listening to music contrast their effects on verbal long-term memory in dependence on word concreteness	5

Memory for diverse faces in a racially attentive context	5
When there is noise on Sherlock Holmes: mind wandering increases with perceptual processing difficulty during reading and listening	5
The effect of task load, information reliability and interdependency on anticipation performance	5
Distinctive Sans Forgetica font does not benefit memory accuracy in the DRM paradigm	5
Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation	5
Interaction of prior category knowledge and novel statistical patterns during visual search for real-world objects	5
Serial dependence in the perceptual judgments of radiologists	5
Errors in visual search: Are they stochastic or deterministic?	5
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?	5
Statistical feature training improves fingerprint-matching accuracy in novices and professional fingerprint examiners	5
Using change detection to objectively evaluate whether novel over-the-counter drug labels can increase attention to critical health information among older adults	5
Influences of early diagnostic suggestions on clinical reasoning	5
Using a picture (or a thousand words) for supporting spatial knowledge of a complex virtual environment	5
Proneness to false memory generation predicts pseudoscientific belief endorsement	5