OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and Cognition 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Using motor imagery practice for improving motor performance – A review	62
A review on the electroencephalography markers of Stroop executive control processes	56
Associations between self-reported spontaneous thought and temporal sequences of EEG microstates	22
Temporo-parietal contribution to the mental representations of self/other face	21
Relations between frontal EEG maturation and inhibitory control in preschool in the prediction of children’s early academic skills	20
Cognitive profile and mild cognitive impairment in people with chronic lower back pain	20
How is psychological stress linked to sleep quality? The mediating role of functional connectivity between the sensory/somatomotor network and the cingulo-opercular control network	19
Dynamic task-linked switching between brain networks – A tri-network perspective	18
Cognitive control, motivation and fatigue: A cognitive neuroscience perspective	17
Behavioural changes predict poorer survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	17
Neurocognitive development of flanker and Stroop interference control: A near-infrared spectroscopy study	16
Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality	16
Acting with shared intentions: A systematic review on joint action coordination in Autism Spectrum Disorder	15
Cooperation with partners of differing social experience: An fNIRS-based hyperscanning study	15
The association between emotional dysregulation and REM sleep features in insomnia disorder	15
Spontaneous sensations reveal distorted body perception in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)	15
Parent–child joint reading is related to an increased fixation time on print during storytelling among preschool children	14
Language and action in Broca’s area: Computational differentiation and cortical segregation	14
The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on within- and cross-paradigm transfer following multi-session backward recall training	14
Increases in attentional demands are associated with language group differences in working memory performance	14
Up-regulation of proactive control is associated with beneficial effects of a childhood gymnastics program on response preparation and working memory	13
Prompting future events: Effects of temporal cueing and time on task on brain preparation to action	13
Semantic congruency effects of prime words on tool visual exploration	13
EEG, MEG and neuromodulatory approaches to explore cognition: Current status and future directions	13
Effects of socioeconomic status in predicting reading outcomes for children: The mediation of spoken language network	13

Relationship between brain AD biomarkers and episodic memory performance in healthy aging	13
Frontotemporal dementia, music perception and social cognition share neurobiological circuits: A meta-analysis	13
Altering sensorimotor simulation impacts early stages of facial expression processing depending on individual differences in alexithymic traits	12
Temporal attention boosts perceptual effects of spatial attention and feature-based attention	12
Acute stress impairs reward learning in men	12
The association between MRI brain volumes and computerized cognitive scores of people with multiple sclerosis	12
Do perceptual expertise and implicit racial bias predict early face-sensitive ERP responses?	12
Different kinds of embodied language: A comparison between Italian and Persian languages	12
N400 differences between physical and mental metaphors: The role of Theories of Mind	12
Zooming in on the cognitive neuroscience of visual narrative	11
Sonification of combined action observation and motor imagery: Effects on corticospinal excitability	11
New insights into the neural foundations mediating movement/language interactions gained from intrasurgical direct electrostimulations	11
Evaluative judgment across domains: Liking balance, contour, symmetry and complexity in melodies and visual designs	11
The birthing brain: A lacuna in neuroscience	11
Deficits in short-term memory binding are detectable in individuals with brain amyloid deposition in the absence of overt neurodegeneration in the Alzheimer’s disease continuum	10
The effects of the functional interplay between the Default Mode and Executive Control Resting State Networks on cognitive outcome in preterm born infants at 6 months of age	10
What’s next? Neural correlates of emotional predictions: A high-density EEG investigation	10
Neural correlates of spontaneous deception in a non-competitive interpersonal scenario: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study	10
The effects of aging and disease duration on cognition in multiple sclerosis	10
Presetting an inhibitory state modifies the neural processing of negated action sentences. An ERP study	10
Pupillary and behavioral markers of alerting and orienting: An individual difference approach	10
Increased cortical activation and enhanced functional connectivity in the prefrontal cortex ensure dynamic postural balance during dual-task obstacle negotiation in the older adults: A fNIRS study	10
Immediate effects of visual–motor illusion on resting-state functional connectivity	9
Pragmatic abilities in early Parkinson’s disease	9
Response Inhibition Deficits in Women with the FMR1 Premutation are Associated with Age and Fall Risk	9
Response inhibition to emotional faces is modulated by functional hemispheric asymmetries linked to handedness	9
Lesion loci of impaired affective prosody: A systematic review of evidence from stroke	9
Are you as important as me? Self-other discrimination within trait-adjective processing	9
Neural correlates of the production effect: An fMRI study	9
The effects of age on neural correlates of recognition memory: An fMRI study	8
Delayed cortical processing of auditory stimuli in children with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis of electrophysiological studies	8
Effects of acute psychosocial stress on interpersonal cooperation and competition in young women	8
Increased links between language and motor areas: A proof-of-concept study on resting-state functional connectivity following Personalized Observation, Execution and Mental imagery therapy in chronic	8
What do you have in mind? ERP markers of visual and auditory imagery	8
Fearful faces modulate cognitive control under varying levels of uncertainty: An event-related potential study	8
Modality effects in verbal working memory updating: Transcranial direct current stimulation over human inferior frontal gyrus and posterior parietal cortex	8
Neurocognitive mechanisms of guided item and associative encoding in young and older adults	7
Leftward cradling bias in males and its relation to autistic traits and lateralised emotion processing	7
“Embodied” language processing: Mental motor imagery aptitude predicts word-definition skill for high but not for low imageable words in adolescents	7
Premature birth affects visual body representation and body schema in preterm children	7
The only-child effect in the neural and behavioral signatures of trust revealed by fNIRS hyperscanning	7
Pathologies of precision: A Bayesian account of goals, habits, and episodic foresight in addiction	7
Brain compensation during response inhibition in premanifest Huntington’s disease	7
Reaction time and response inhibition in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease	7
Attention control processes that prioritise task execution may come at the expense of incidental memory encoding	7
Neuropsychology of executive functions in patients with focal lesion in the prefrontal cortex: A systematic review	7
Discovering the brain stages of lexical decision: Behavioral effects originate from a single neural decision process	7
Modality-specific neural mechanisms of cognitive control in a Stroop-like task	7
Apolipoprotein e (APOE) ε4 genotype influences memory performance following remote traumatic brain injury in U.S. military service members and veterans	7
False recognitions in short-term memory – Age-differences in neural activity	6

Common ERP responses to narrative incoherence in sentence and picture pair comprehension	6
Brain changes associated with impaired attention function in chronic pain	6
Pleasantness of mind wandering is positively associated with focus back effort in daily life: Evidence from resting state fMRI	6
Romantic love affects emotional processing of love-unrelated stimuli: An EEG/ERP study using a love induction task	6
Distinct FN400/N400 memory effects for perceptually fluent and disfluent words	6
Repeated application of the covert shift of attention task improves endogenous but not exogenous attention in patients with unilateral visuospatial inattention	6
High spatial frequency filtered primes hastens happy faces categorization in autistic adults	6
Improvements in error-monitoring and symptoms following low-frequency rTMS of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in obsessive compulsive disorder; a randomized, sham-controlled study	6
Resting EEG in alpha band predicts individual differences in visual size perception	6
An integrative perspective on the role of touch in the development of intersubjectivity	6
Tonal structures benefit short-term memory for real music: Evidence from non-musicians and individuals with congenital amusia	5
Do food images as action outcomes evoke a reward positivity?	5
Visual working memory deficits following right brain damage	5
Impact of sleep deprivation on attentional networks: disentangling orienting components	5
Predictive processing, cognitive control, and tonality stability of music: An fMRI study of chromatic harmony	5
Age-related volumetric alterations in hippocampal subiculum region are associated with reduced retention of the “when” memory component	5
Developmental alterations of the numerical processing networks in the brain	5
The neural mechanism of spatial-positional association in working memory: A fMRI study	5
EEG gamma activity to emotional movies in individuals with high traits of primary “successful” psychopathy	5
The physiological signature of sadness: A comparison between text, film and virtual reality	5
Individual-level morphological hippocampal networks in patients with Alzheimer’s disease	5
Implicit sequence learning in individuals with Parkinson’s disease: The added value of using an ocular version of the serial reaction time (O-SRT) task	5
The influence of item familiarization on neural discriminability during associative memory encoding and retrieval	5
Acute aerobic exercise enhances pleasant compared to unpleasant visual scene processing	5
Vocal-motor interference eliminates the memory advantage for vocal melodies	5
Increased conceptual switching by dopaminergic treatment in patients with Parkinson’s disease	5