OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Learning and Motivation is 1. 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
Cooperation and competition enhance implicit sequence learning differently	70
Music as a contextual cue in human predictive learning	54
Reach for the STARS? The role of academic contingent self-worth in statistics anxiety and learning	52
Editorial Board	32
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Dogs assess human competence from observation alone and use it to predict future behaviour	24
Trade-offs in stimulus control in a temporal discrimination task	23
Game theory without theory: Interactive choice in pigeons, humans and machines	21
Comparing trial-and-error to errorless learning procedures in training pet dogs a visual discrimination	21
A preliminary investigation of eye-tracking software to inform an ABA renewal mitigation procedure	18
Do I want to learn today? Day-to-day variations in adolescents’ academic motivation and effort	18
Learning motivation of college students in multimedia environment with machine learning models	16
Beneficial effects of selenium against the behavioral consequences of lipopolysaccharide administration in rats	15
The role of EFL teacher immediacy and teacher-student rapport in boosting motivation to learn and academic mindsets in online education	14
Editorial Board	14
Examining effects of response-cost punishment and extinction in isolation and in combination on resurgence	13
Delay of reinforcement switches attention between elements of a compound stimulus in humans, Reynolds (1961) revisited	13
How the level of student research autonomy in higher education affects learning efficiency by shaping motivation: A case of instructional disconformity	13
Enhancing Chinese students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in EMI classrooms: Do learning motivation and academic self-efficacy matter?	11
Transfer between tasks involving frustrative nonreward in rats: From consummatory to instrumental successive negative contrast	11
Investigation on evaluation of education effect based on deep learning algorithm	11
Nicotine increases behavioral variability on radial arm maze extinction. A preliminary study	10
The mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between resilience and academic performance in adolescence	10
Understanding cognitive maps from landmark and configurational representations	9
Renewal of threat expectancy in an online contextual avoidance paradigm	9

The effect of Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field on spatial memory of mice and rats: A systematic review	9
Pre-exposure effect in social foraging: A study with groups of pigeons (Columba livia)	8
Effects of scaffolding and inner speech on learning motivation, flexible thinking and academic achievement in the technology-enhanced learning environment	8
Shaping inter-response time and run length using a discrete-trial percentile schedule combined with a fixed consecutive number procedure	8
Evaluation of stress and anxiety levels on science and engineering undergraduate students in spain when facing written assessments guides for positive interventions	7
Longer duration intertrial intervals without visual stimuli have reinforcement value and increase the rate of reinforcement and punishment learning in computer-based discriminations in humans	7
Uncovering the state of academic motivation, achievement emotion, self- confidence, and achievement goals in online/offline language instruction	6
The relationship between cognitive ability and motivation during cognitive tasks of varying complexity	6
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Analysis of variability of pigeons’ pecking location under variable-interval schedules	6
Discerning equivalence relations from displayed but not previously learned stimulus pairs	6
Investigating the role of perceived emotional support in predicting learners’ well-being and engagement mediated by motivation from a self-determination theory framework	6
Chrysin supplementation mitigated neurobehavioral changes in a animal model of Parkinson’s disease: Influence on TH+ neurons	6
Socioeconomic status stereotype affects motor learning	6
Examining interactions between baseline expectancy beliefs and task values on weekly motivation in an introductory statistics course	6
Increasing trial discriminability in the ephemeral reward task does not improve optimal choice in pigeons (Columba livia)	5
Motivating academic engagement and lifelong learning among vocational and adult education students via self-direction in learning	5
On innovative strategies of youth sports teaching and training based on the internet of things and artificial intelligence technology from the perspective of humanism	5
Imagery processing is necessary for the subject-performed task effect: Evidence from event-related potentials	5
Editorial Board	5
Nonhuman animal social behavior: Introduction to the special issue	5
How do personality traits of college students affect their learning flow experience?	5
Evaluation of the effects of phenylephrine and prazosin injection into basolateral amygdala on the post-stress experience of memory retrieval in rats	5
Philosophy of self-learning education implemented in a virtual education system	5
Evaluation of the effect of nicotine and O-acetyl-L-carnitine on testosterone-induced spatial learning impairment in Morris water maze and assessment of protein markers	5
My language ability could have been better or worse: Examining how upward and downward counterfactual thinking predict self-efficacy and language performance	5
Artificial intelligence-based needs analysis for english specific purposes in digital environment	5
Examining the role of classroom climate and teacher-student relationships in EFL students’ perceived learning outcomes: A self-determination theory perspective	5
Overselectivity during reading-related tasks for children at risk for reading failure	5
Disentangling three different conflicts at non-response/semantic and response levels in a new stroop-matching task	4
Punishment in training contexts decrease operant renewal in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	4
Investigating the contribution of student engagement and foreign language enjoyment to English majors’ TEM4-related positive emotions: A positive reinforcement perspective	4
Individual differences in motivational self-focus modulate context-based affective attention flexibility toward goal-relevant information: An eye-tracking study	4
Preservice teachers’ accuracy in measuring child engagement using a digitised momentary time sampling measure	4
Generative processes and knowledge revision	4
A novel method to enhance the retention and generalization of extinction memory in humans	4
Response-specificity or response-generality of inhibition in an operant feature-negative discrimination: Influence of the amount of inhibition training and attention to the response	4
Tribute for James (Jim) E Wright	4
Effectiveness of a scaffolded autonomous learning scheme in enhancing learners’ motivation in EFL classes	3
Predicting final grades in STEM courses: A path analysis of academic motivation and course-related behavior using self-determination theory	3
Internet-delivered approach-avoidance conflict task shows temporal stability and relation to trait anxiety	3
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Evaluating voluntary abstinence from ethanol self-administration in rats using a concurrent-chains procedure	3
Effects of voluntary, involuntary exercise and sertraline on anxiety, social and cognitive behavior in female rat model of post-traumatic stress disorder	3
Crocin facilitates the effect of fear extinction on freezing behavior and BDNF level in a rat model of fear-conditioning	3
Frequency and animal demographics of mouthing behavior in companion dogs in the United States	3
A structural equation modeling approach in examining EFL students’ foreign language enjoyment, trait emotional intelligence, and classroom climate	3
Editorial Board	3
Writing with motivation: To delve into the impacts of modifications in academic materials on learners' motivation, creativity, and writing progress in online instruction	3
Retrospective revaluation effects during interpersonal attributions	3

Predicting learner autonomy in collaborative learning: The role of group metacognition and motivational regulation strategies	3
Neurotransmitters receptors gene drive the olfactory learning behavior of honeybee	3
You can learn well regardless of your motivation type – Evidence from a virtual learning environment	3
Interfered by unaccomplished academic tasks: The role of success expectations	3
The effects of controlled self-learning on the improvement of soft and cognitive skills of engineering students: A focused analysis	3
A healthy lifestyle persuasive design model based on behavioral analysis	3
Hatchery enrichment accelerates use of land mark cue in route learning behaviour of climbing perch (Anabas testudineus Bloch 1792)	3
Mechanisms of copying, social learning, and imitation in animals	2
Probing the effects of perceived teacher goals and achievement-goal orientations on students’ self-efficacy, cognitive and metacognitive strategies in writing: A person-centered approach	2
A longitudinal study of enjoyment and group-level emotion regulation in online collaborative English language learning	2
A single reminder trial updates fear memory and affects extinction in rats housed under different living conditions	2
Nursing students' perceived autonomy-support by teachers affects their intrinsic motivation, study effort, and perceived learning outcomes	2
Acquisition and extinction of contextual fear conditioning in Carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats	2
Increment in the consummatory response induced by reward delay: An animal model of binge-like eating episodes	2
Goal interruptions and task performance: The additional influence of goal orientations	2
A study on the effectiveness of self-assessment learning system of ideological and political education for college students	2
Memantine decreases measures of sign-tracking and increases measures of goal-tracking in male Sprague Dawley rats	2
An analysis of the effects of topographically similar and dissimilar auditory stimuli on the accuracy and latency to respond in a math task	2
Editorial Board	2
The relationship between mindfulness and learning engagement in Chinese university students: The serial mediating role of self-esteem and self-control	2
Effects of depressive mood and food cues on food cravings among Japanese: Experimental research	2
Impacts of after-action reviews on mathematical learning performance	2
Behavioural evaluation of mouse models of type 2 diabetes	2
A model for enhancing employees’ lifelong learning intention online	2
Mapping academic motivation, self-efficacy, achievement emotions, and vocabulary learning in a game-enhanced learning environment from the lens of activity theory	2
Zingerone neuroprotective effects in a rat model of manic-like behavior induced by ketamine	2
Oral contraceptive androgenicity affects symmetry processing speed in a visuospatial working memory task	2
Learning skills, creativity, and self-efficacy in vocational school students	2
Exploring the mediating role of basic psychological needs in the relationship between teacher confirmation and students’ academic engagement in EFL classes: A self-determination perspective	2
Acute stress increases behaviors that optimize safety and decreases the exploration of aversive areas	2
Does poverty really stifle ambition? A latent profile analysis of achievement motivation for economically disadvantaged Chinese university students	2
The influence of emotion and learner control on multimedia learning	2
Cued fear conditioning in humans using immersive Virtual Reality	2
Retraction notice to “The impact of socio-cultural differences on formation of intrinsic motivation: The case of local and foreign students” [Learning and Motivation 65 (2019) 1–9]	2
Choice between post-reinforcer delays in pigeons: Effects of stimulus continuity and response requirement	1
RETRACTED: Music education: Which is more effective – Traditional learning or the introduction of modern technologies to increase student motivation?	1
Relationship between types of emotion regulation and reflective learning: Based on latent profile analysis	1
Degraded contingency effect on running-based flavor aversion in rats: Testing the associative cue-competition account with flavors of minimal similarity	1
Effect of Matricaria chamomile on morphine reward memory, the role of the serotonin receptor and CSF levels following conditional place preference in rats	1
“More is better”: Training multiple alternatives reduces resurgence	1
EFL learner motivation and psychological well-being in online instruction: To spy the traces of resilience, autonomy, and engagement via path analysis	1
A mixed-methods investigation into complex components of multilingual international students' self-regulated learning in English as a foreign language context: A social cognitive perspective	1
A behavioral-economic analysis of demand and preference for social and food reinforcement in rats	1
Research on multimodal based learning evaluation method in smart classroom	1
The impact of EFL teachers’ emotioncy level on their motivation and academic engagement	1
Autonomous motivation in blended learning: Effects of teaching presence and basic psychological need satisfaction	1
Effect of sequential tasks in the case studies of business English textbooks on fostering critical thinking based on cognitive load theory	1
Delving into the structural model of students’ music performance anxiety, self-efficacy, and motivation based on a self-determination theory	1
Mindset and effort during a self-adapted arithmetic task: Variable- and person-oriented approaches	1
Evaluating extinction, renewal, and resurgence of operant behavior in humans with Amazon Mechanical Turk	1
Effect of emotion dysregulation and emotion regulation strategies on evaluative conditioning	1
Visual media and learning: Effect of interactive television instruction as an intervention strategy for improving the critical thinking skills and disposition of out-of-school nomadic children in Nige	1
How motivation and enjoyment spread their wings during English Foreign Language learning: A pseudo-longitudinal investigation into Moroccan learners	1
Investigating the role of teacher concern in EFL students’ motivation, anxiety, and language achievement through the lens of self-determination theory	1
Learning in virtual reality: Effects of instruction type and emotional arousal on learning performance	1
Mood affects attention in knowledge-free reasoning task, not scores	1
Cultural psychology of english translation through computer vision-based robotic interpretation	1
Effect of chronic exposure to sertraline on social and cognitive behavior of adult male and female rats under social isolation stress	1
Relationship between teacher's ability model and students' behavior based on emotion-behavior relevance theory and artificial intelligence technology under the background of curriculum ideological and	1
Topic interest increases L2 incidental vocabulary learning and effective dictionary look-up behaviour	1
Basic psychological needs in the classroom: A literature review in elementary and middle school students	1
Anxiety level of mastery and performance avoid goal oriented EAP learners: The effect of teacher supportive motivational discourse	1
BERT-based transfer learning in tacit knowledge externalization: A study case of history teachers	1
The interaction of mathematics achievement, academic motivation and social context among Turkish adolescents	1
The role of self-efficacy and learner engagement in the relationship between prior achievement and final achievement in EFL writing	1
Sex differences in incentive contrast during game play: Contributions of personality and emotion	1
The effect of partial and continuous reinforcement on the generalization of conditioned fear in humans	1
An introduction to the special issue on the applications of positive psychology in educational environments: Teachers’ and students’ psychological states in the spotlight	1
Exploring the association between neuroticism and negativity bias in evaluative counterconditioning	1
Navigating the emotional landscape: Insights into resilience, engagement, and burnout among Chinese High School English as a Foreign Language Learners	1
The power of the “be creative” instruction: A meta-analytical evaluation	1