OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and Cognition is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The graded novelty encoding task: Limitations and potential	108
Age differences in the mechanisms underlying remembering events vividly and confidently	43
The role of working memory in encoding the temporal structure of events in episodic memory	33
Neural phoneme discrimination in variable speech in newborns – Associations with dyslexia risk and later language skills	32
Value network engagement and effects of memory-related processing during encoding and retrieval of value	24
N400 differences between physical and mental metaphors: The role of Theories of Mind	23
Editorial Board	21
Consistent neural representation of valence in encoding and recall	20
Corticospinal suppression in response to pics with implied hand actions: A follow up TMS study	18
Semantic predictability and semantic relevance through different neural mechanisms to improve memory performance	17
Exercise interventions, postural control, and prefrontal cortex activation in older adults	17
Cooperation with partners of differing social experience: An fNIRS-based hyperscanning study	16
Relationship between maternal biological features, environmental factors, and newborn neuromotor development associated with visual fixation abilities	16
Combined effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and aerobic exercise on inhibitory control function in healthy young adults: An event-related potential study	15
Tonal structures benefit short-term memory for real music: Evidence from non-musicians and individuals with congenital amusia	13
The neural mechanism of spatial-positional association in working memory: A fMRI study	12
Modeling familiarity through the combination of deep learning and Hebbian training	12
The reminiscence bump and loss of autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease	12
Editorial Board	12
Context dissociations of the FN400 and N400 are evidence for recognition based on relative or absolute familiarity	12
Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from 2 online longitudinal studies	12
Neural correlates of bribe-taking decision dilemma: An fNIRS study	11
Morphometry and functional connectivity of auditory cortex in school-age children with profound language disabilities: Five comparative case studies	11
Validation of the cognitive section of the Penn computerized adaptive test for neurocognitive and clinical psychopathology assessment (CAT-CCNB)	11
Investigating anticipatory processes during sequentially changing reward prospect: An ERP study	11

Verbal inhibition declines among older women with high FMR1 premutation expansions: A prospective study	10
Neural correlates of the production effect: An fMRI study	10
A spontaneous dissociative episode during an EEG experiment	10
Enjoying others’ distress and indifferent to threat? Changes in prefrontal-posterior coupling during social-emotional processing are linked to malevolent creativity	10
Facing healthy and pathological aging: A systematic review of fMRI task-based studies to understand the neural mechanisms of cognitive reserve	9
Maintaining her image: A social comparative evaluation of the particularity of mothers in the Chinese cultural context	9
Organization of conceptual tool knowledge following left and right brain lesions: Evidence from neuropsychological dissociations and multivariate disconnectome symptom mapping	9
Review: “Emotions and the Right Side of the Brain” by Guido Gainotti	9
Editorial Board	9
Distinguishing expectation and attention effects in processing temporal patterns of visual input	9
The temporal compression of daily-live events in working memory	9
Insights from continuous retrieval measures into the precision of episodic memory	8
Editorial Board	8
Connectome-based prediction modeling of cognitive control using functional and structural connectivity	7
The effect of test query on recognition event-related potentials (ERPs)	7
Updating implicit contextual priors with explicit learning for the prediction of social and physical events	7
Memory enhancement with stimulants: Differential neural effects of methylphenidate, modafinil, and caffeine. A pilot study	7
Perception of visual variance is mediated by subcortical mechanisms	7
The role of sex and emotion on emotion perception in artificial faces: An ERP study	7
Impact of working memory capacity on predominance of parietal over frontal P300 amplitude	7
Spatio-temporal theta pattern dissimilarity in the right centro-parietal area during memory generalization	7
Lesion loci of impaired affective prosody: A systematic review of evidence from stroke	7
Development of memory generalization and specificity in childhood	6
High spatial frequency filtered primes hastens happy faces categorization in autistic adults	6
Spatial frequency impacts perceptual and attentional ERP components across cultures	6
Predictive processing, cognitive control, and tonality stability of music: An fMRI study of chromatic harmony	6
Frontal lobe functions in schizophrenia: Interest of the Stuss approach	6
Face the future: The impact of self-reference and temporality on mind-wandering	6
Disconnection of posterior part of the frontal aslant tract causes acute phase motor functional deficit	6
Beyond information rate, the capacity of cognitive control predicts response criteria in perceptual decision-making	6
Inverted U-shape-like functional connectivity alterations in cognitive resting-state networks depending on exercise intensity: An fMRI study	6
Copolymer-1 as a potential therapy for mild cognitive impairment	6
Does predictive cueing of presentation time modulate alpha power and facilitate visual working memory performance in younger and older adults?	6
Be ready to manage stress “Before” and “After” a critical event. What the EEG and autonomic correlates tell us	6
Exploring the mechanisms responsible for the modulating role of frowning in emotional reasoning: An ERP study	6
The physiological signature of sadness: A comparison between text, film and virtual reality	5
‘Delaying’ a saccade: Preparatory phase cortical hemodynamics evince the neural cost of response inhibition	5
Retrieval orientation for memories encoded in emotional contexts: An ERP study	5
Recollecting events: How expectations influence our memories	5
Altered brain activation in uncomplicated pediatric obesity: The second moment is more sensitive than the first	5
Brain plasticity of structural connectivity networks and topological properties in baseball players with different levels of expertise	5
Differential effects of long-term aerobic versus cognitively-engaging physical activity on children’s visuospatial working memory related brain activation: A cluster RCT	5
Does age-related memory decline affect decision making?	5
Relationship between punishment sensitivity and risk-taking propensity	5
Using motor imagery practice for improving motor performance – A review	5
Semantic congruency effects of prime words on tool visual exploration	5
Involvement of the prefrontal cortex in motor sequence learning: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study	4
Exploring neural correlates of social dominance: Insights from behavioral, resting- state EEG, and ERP indices	4
Using electroencephalography to explore neurocognitive correlates of procedural proficiency: A pilot study to compare experts and novices during simulated endotracheal intubation	4
Evidencing representational specialisation of the anterior hippocampus and perirhinal cortex across memory and non-memory operations	4

Atypical procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder: A combined behavioral and neuroimaging study	4
Cognition, emotion, and the default mode network	4
Do categorical representations modulate early perceptual or later cognitive visual processing? An ERP study	4
Singleton effect decreases under time pressure: An fNIRS study	4
Interhemispheric transfer of visual information: Meaningfulness and response formation	4
Dynamic task-linked switching between brain networks – A tri-network perspective	4
Neural correlates of lexical, sublexical and motor processes in word handwriting	4
Variation in antisaccadic response latencies investigated with the hierarchical LATER process model	4
Perceptual processing of stimuli related to an analogue traumatic event: An ERP study	4
Using temporo-spatial principal component analysis as tool to dissociate latent ERP components of episodic memory retrieval: Objectifying time-window selection for overlapping ERP components	4
Apolipoprotein e (APOE) ε4 genotype influences memory performance following remote traumatic brain injury in U.S. military service members and veterans	4
Electrophysiological evidence of crossmodal correspondence between auditory pitch and visual elevation affecting inhibition of return	4
Editorial Board	4
Timing-specific patterns of cerebral activations during motor imagery: A case study of the expert brain signature	4
Transcranial direct current stimulation over the left posterior temporal lobe modulates semantic control: Evidence from episodic memory distortions	4
Editorial Board	4