Cognition

Papers
(The median citation count of Cognition is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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The social meaning of common knowledge across development70
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Associative learning or Bayesian inference? Revisiting backwards blocking reasoning in adults50
The puzzle of wrongless injustice: Reflections on Kürthy and Sousa48
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Response modalities and the cognitive architecture underlying action control: Intra-modal trumps cross-modal action coordination44
Tell me your (cognitive) budget, and I’ll tell you what you value41
Using network science to provide insights into the structure of event knowledge39
Mental chronometry of speaking in dialogue: Semantic interference turns into facilitation38
Hidden size: Size representations in implicitly coded objects38
Consequences of phonological variation for algorithmic word segmentation37
Perspective-taking in deriving implicatures: The listener's perspective is important too36
Capacity limits in face detection36
Computational bases of domain-specific action anticipation superiority in experts: Kinematic invariants mapping35
The development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task34
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception33
Is an eye truly for an eye? Magnitude differences affect moral praise more than moral blame32
How causal structure, causal strength, and foreseeability affect moral judgments31
Prospection and delay of gratification support the development of calculated reciprocity31
Spatial and mathematics skills: Similarities and differences related to age, SES, and gender29
The contribution of episodic long-term memory to working memory for bindings29
Can infants adopt underspecified contents into attributed beliefs? Representational prerequisites of theory of mind29
The impact of visual cues during visual word recognition in deaf readers: An ERP study29
Intergroup preference, not dehumanization, explains social biases in emotion attribution29
Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory29
Color technology is not necessary for rich and efficient color language28
The beep-speed illusion: Non-spatial tones increase perceived speed of visual objects in a forced-choice paradigm28
Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding?27
Memory and attention: A double dissociation between memory encoding and memory retrieval27
Bend but don't break: Prioritization protects working memory from displacement but leaves it vulnerable to distortion from distraction27
Interpersonal utility and children's social inferences from shared preferences26
Dimensions underlying human understanding of the reachable world26
Causal inference in environmental sound recognition26
Syllabic rhythm and prior linguistic knowledge interact with individual differences to modulate phonological statistical learning25
Is it good to feel bad about littering? Conflict between moral beliefs and behaviors for everyday transgressions25
The nature of Garner interference: The role of uncertainty, information, and variation in the breakdown in selective attention25
Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition: Contrasting uni-and bidirectional prediction models25
Language-general versus language-specific processes in bilingual voice learning24
Using contrastive inferences to learn about new words and categories24
Making sense of domain specificity24
Intention beyond desire: Spontaneous intentional commitment regulates conflicting desires23
How do humans want causes to combine their effects? The role of analytically-defined causal invariance for generalizable causal knowledge23
The puzzle of wrongless harms: Some potential concerns for dyadic morality and related accounts23
Why do Americans foresee a grim future for their country? The influences of country well-being, national identity, and news coverage23
The transposed word effect is consistent with serial word recognition and varies with reading speed23
Automatic and strategic components of bilingual lexical alignment22
The effect of mode of presentation on Tower of Hanoi problem solving22
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Structural asymmetries in the representation of giving and taking events20
Contraction bias in temporal estimation20
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Language patterns of outgroup prejudice20
Do individual differences in lexical reliance reflect states or traits?20
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Scene context automatically drives predictions of object transformations20
Dynamic modulation of confidence based on the metacognitive skills of collaborators20
Avoiding gender ambiguous pronouns in French20
Increasing entropy reduces perceived numerosity throughout the lifespan19
Reward at encoding but not retrieval modulates memory for detailed events19
Beat processing in newborn infants cannot be explained by statistical learning based on transition probabilities19
Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow: Implications for language learning19
A parallel architecture perspective on pre-activation and prediction in language processing19
Deciding to be authentic: Intuition is favored over deliberation when authenticity matters19
Locating what comes to mind in empirically derived representational spaces19
Who attributes what to whom? Moral values and relational context shape causal attribution to the person or the situation19
Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account18
Adaptive cognitive maps for curved surfaces in the 3D world18
When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks principle in colexification18
Similarity and structured representation in human and nonhuman apes18
Active inductive inference in children and adults: A constructivist perspective18
A distributional perspective on the gavagai problem in early word learning18
Recollective and non-recollective processes in working memory retrieval18
Generalization and false memory in acquired equivalence18
Corrigendum to “Shielding working-memory representations from temporally predictable external interference” [Cognition 217 (2021) 104915]18
On humans' (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words18
On the matter of essence17
A cognitive template for human face detection17
Motion extrapolation in sport expertise: Representational momentum and representational gravity in volleyball athletes17
Humans' extreme face recognition abilities challenge the well-established familiarity effect17
How children come to (not) detect and apply multiple functions for objects: Rethinking perseveration and functional fixedness17
Forever young: The end of history illusion in children17
Planning on Autopilot? Associative Contributions to Proactive Control17
The assumed motor capabilities of a partner influence motor imagery in a joint serial disc transfer task17
Changing your mind about the data: Updating sampling assumptions in inductive inference17
Is numerical information always beneficial? Verbal and numerical cue-integration in additive and non-additive tasks17
When a gain becomes a loss: The effect of wealth predictions on financial decisions16
Working memory load affects intelligence test performance by reducing the strength of relational item bindings and impairing the filtering of irrelevant information16
Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h16
Spatial-numerical associations of manual response codes are strongly asymmetrical16
Distributional learning of speech sound categories is gated by sensitive periods16
Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in ‘scaffolded attention’16
Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony16
Implicit prediction as a consequence of statistical learning16
Tempering the tension between science and intuition16
Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands15
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The influence of working memory mechanisms on false memories in immediate and delayed tests15
Continuous and discrete proportion elicit different cognitive strategies15
Does music training improve emotion recognition and cognitive abilities? Longitudinal and correlational evidence from children15
Causal relational problem solving in toddlers15
Schematic information influences memory and generalisation behaviour for schema-relevant and -irrelevant information15
The deflationary model of harm and moral wrongdoing: A rejoinder to Royzman & Borislow15
Children perceive illusory faces in objects as male more often than female15
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The paradoxical effects of time pressure on base rate neglect15
Efficient sensory encoding predicts robust averaging15
Fundamental units of numerosity estimation14
No selective integration required: A race model explains responses to audiovisual motion-in-depth14
Spatial updating of gaze position in younger and older adults – A path integration-like process in eye movements14
Decoding face identity: A reverse-correlation approach using deep learning14
The organizational principles of impression formation14
People expect artificial moral advisors to be more utilitarian and distrust utilitarian moral advisors14
Capacity limits in sentence comprehension: Evidence from dual-task judgements and event-related potentials14
Urges now, interests later: On the factors and dynamics of epistemic curiosity14
Common and distinct neural substrates of rule- and similarity-based category learning14
Ritualization increases the perceived efficacy of instrumental actions14
Ethical judgments of poverty depictions in the context of charity advertising14
Informationally redundant utterances elicit pragmatic inferences14
Timing in conversation is dynamically adjusted turn by turn in dyadic telephone conversations14
Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities14
Person-based prominence guides incremental interpretation: Evidence from obviation in Ojibwe14
The selection balance: Contrasting value, proximity and priming in a multitarget foraging task14
Improving the diagnostic value of lineup rejections14
Not just what you did, but how: Children see distributors that count as more fair than distributors who don't14
Corrigendum to: Repetition increases both the perceived truth and fakeness of information: An ecological account [Cognition, 205, 2020, 1-6/104470]14
Effects of attentional shifts along the vertical axis on number processing: An eye-tracking study with optokinetic stimulation14
Do early meanings of negation map onto a fully-fledged negation concept in infancy?14
What is autonoetic consciousness? Examining what underlies subjective experience in memory and future thinking14
“Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of terminological choices in auditory selective attention research14
“The tiger is hitting! the duck too!” 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis14
Heuristic interpretation as rational inference: A computational model of the N400 and P600 in language processing14
Face detection from patterns of shading and shadows: The role of overhead illumination in generating the familiar appearance of the human face13
Slippage of the attentional beam when searching in space and in time13
How many seconds was that? Teaching children about time does not refine their ability to track durations13
Arc-shaped pitch contours facilitate item recognition in non-human animals13
Suppression-induced forgetting of motor sequences13
When the timing is right: The link between temporal coupling in dyadic interactions and emotion recognition13
Joint contributions of collaborative facilitation and social contagion to the development of shared memories in social groups13
Computational underpinnings of partisan information processing biases and associations with depth of cognitive reasoning13
Revisiting causal pluralism: Intention, process, and dependency in cases of double prevention13
The effect of abstract inter-chunk relationships on serial-order control13
Attentional blink in preverbal infants13
Object expectations alter information use during visual recognition13
Elucidating the influences of embodiment and conceptual metaphor on lexical and non-speech tone learning13
Agency and social affordance shape visual perception13
Continuous time causal structure induction with prevention and generation13
Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power13
When a look is enough: Neurophysiological correlates of referential speaker gaze in situated comprehension13
The object as the unit for state switching in visual working memory13
Learning the statistics of pronoun reference: By word or by category?13
Rational number representation by the approximate number system13
Interference between naïve and scientific theories occurs in mathematics and is related to mathematical achievement13
Exploring power-law behavior in human gaze shifts across tasks and populations12
If not me, then who? Responsibility and replacement12
Does age affect metacognition? A cross-domain investigation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework12
Conditionals in context: Brain signatures of prediction in discourse processing12
Metacognitive judgements of change detection predict change blindness12
Unexpected words or unexpected languages? Two ERP effects of code-switching in naturalistic discourse12
Average faces: How does the averaging process change faces physically and perceptually?12
Philosophy instruction changes views on moral controversies by decreasing reliance on intuition12
Motor synergies: Evidence for a novel motor signature in autism spectrum disorder12
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Do I look like I'm sure?: Partial metacognitive access to the low-level aspects of one's own facial expressions12
Seeing food fast and slow: Arousing pictures and words have reverse priorities in accessing awareness12
Children's representation of coincidence12
Are there unconscious visual images in aphantasia? Development of an implicit priming paradigm12
The mechanisms underlying grammatical gender selection in language production: A meta-analysis of the gender congruency effect12
Interaction of phonological biases and frequency in learning a probabilistic language pattern12
Relative source credibility affects the continued influence effect: Evidence of rationality in the CIE12
Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation12
Witnessing-condition information differentially affects evaluations of high- and moderate-confidence eyewitness identifications12
Social interoception: Perceiving events during cardiac afferent activity makes people more suggestible to other people's influence12
Some scales require cognitive effort: A systematic review on the role of working memory in scalar implicature derivation11
From separate items to an integrated unit in visual working memory: Similarity chunking vs. configural grouping11
A developmental investigation of group concepts in the context of social hierarchy: Can the powerful impose group membership?11
Quantifier spreading and the question under discussion11
Dynamic development of intuitions and explicit knowledge during implicit learning11
On the relationship of arousal and attentional distraction by emotional novel sounds11
The influence of polarity items on inferential judgments11
Discourse-based constraints on long-distance dependencies generalize across constructions in English and French11
Getting to the source of the illusion of consensus11
Evaluative mindsets can protect against the influence of false information11
Slowdowns in scalar implicature processing: Isolating the intention-reading costs in the Bott & Noveck task11
Linguistic alignment with an artificial agent: A commentary and re-analysis11
Hearing is believing: Lexically guided perceptual learning is graded to reflect the quantity of evidence in speech input11
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The impact of alphabetic literacy on the perception of speech sounds11
Rule is a dual character concept11
Developmental changes in the perceived moral standing of robots11
Multiple predictions during language comprehension: Friends, foes, or indifferent companions?11
A simple definition of ‘intentionally’11
Internal attention modulates the functional state of novel stimulus-response associations in working memory11
Symbol superiority: Why $ is better remembered than ‘dollar’11
The state of the onion: Grammatical aspect modulates object representation during event comprehension11
The development of creative search strategies11
On what it means to automatize a rule11
No need to forget, just keep the balance: Hebbian neural networks for statistical learning11
Why wearing a yellow hat is impossible: Chinese and U.S. children's possibility judgments11
The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds11
The context of experienced sensory discrepancies shapes multisensory integration and recalibration differently11
Making a positive difference: Criticality in groups11
Systematicity in language and the fast and slow creation of writing systems: Understanding two types of non-arbitrary relations between orthographic characters and their canonical pronunciation11
Ownership and convention11
Comparing human evaluations of eyewitness statements to a machine learning classifier under pristine and suboptimal lineup administration procedures10
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Perceptual plausibility of exaggerated realistic motion10
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Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination: Vowel raising in Bengali verb inflections10
The role of language in building abstract, generalized conceptual representations of one- and two-place predicates: A comparison between adults and infants10
Perception and memory-based representations of facial emotions: Associations with personality functioning, affective states and recognition abilities10
Not so simple! Causal mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations10
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language10
Events structure information accessibility less in children than adults10
The temporal structure of parent talk to toddlers about objects10
One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions10
Language systematizes attention: How relational language enhances relational representation by guiding attention10
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean10
Refreshing the conversation about adaptation and perceived numerosity: A reply to Yousif, Clarke and Brannon10
Belief updating in the face of misinformation: The role of source reliability10
Temporal dynamics of the semantic versus affective representations of valence during reversal learning10
Motive on the mind: Explanatory preferences at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process10
Perspective taking reduces intergroup bias in visual representations of faces10
Preschoolers decide who is knowledgeable, who to inform, and who to trust via a causal understanding of how knowledge relates to action10
Modeling the left digit effect in adult number line estimation10
8-month-old infants' ability to process word order is shaped by the amount of exposure10
Disclosing sample bias fails to fully correct judgments of partisan extremity10
Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations10
Coarticulation facilitates lexical processing for toddlers with autism10
Diversity in research on the psychology of language: A large-scale examination of sampling bias10
Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence10
Illusions of knowledge due to mere repetition10
Inhibition and cognitive flexibility are related to prediction of one's own future preferences in young British and Chinese children9
Why fractions are difficult? Modeling optimal and sub-optimal integration strategies of numerators and denominators by educated adults9
Metacognitive blindness in temporal selection during the deployment of spatial attention9
Objectively quantifying subjective phenomena: Measuring the flashed face distortion effect9
Thinking takes time: Children use agents' response times to infer the source, quality, and complexity of their knowledge9
The statistics of cognitive variability: Explaining common patterns in individuals, groups and financial markets9
Small-range numerical representations of linguistic sounds in 9- to 10-month-old infants9
Updating perceptual expectations as certainty diminishes9
The spread of affective and semantic valence representations across states9
Abstractness impacts conversational dynamics9
Unlocking the complexity of phrasal composition: An interplay between semantic features and linguistic relations9
Attention to number requires magnitude-specific inhibition9
From outcome to process: A developmental shift in judgments of good reasoning9
Neural-latency noise places limits on human sensitivity to the timing of events9
Encoding and retrieval eye movements mediate age differences in pattern completion9
Should absolute pitch be considered as a unique kind of absolute sensory judgment in humans? A systematic and theoretical review of the literature9
Cognitive efficiency beats top-down control as a reliable individual difference dimension relevant to self-control9
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