OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Motivation 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 2021-04-01 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
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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
Comparing trial-and-error to errorless learning procedures in training pet dogs a visual discrimination	21
Game theory without theory: Interactive choice in pigeons, humans and machines	21
Do I want to learn today? Day-to-day variations in adolescents’ academic motivation and effort	18
A preliminary investigation of eye-tracking software to inform an ABA renewal mitigation procedure	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
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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
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
Pre-exposure effect in social foraging: A study with groups of pigeons (Columba livia)	8
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
Evaluation of stress and anxiety levels on science and engineering undergraduate students in spain when facing written assessments guides for positive interventions	7
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
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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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
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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
Increasing trial discriminability in the ephemeral reward task does not improve optimal choice in pigeons (Columba livia)	5
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
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
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
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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
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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