OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Development 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	110
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	31
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	30
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	23
Editorial Board	21
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	20
Editorial Board	20
The role of executive functions and fluid intelligence in the prediction of conditional strategy knowledge of self-regulated learning	19
Improving students’ creativity and Chinese academic achievement through Mind-Mapping integrated Differentiated Instruction (MM-DI)	19
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	18
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	18
Adolescents’ beliefs about caste-essentialism and their social location in Nepal	17
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	16
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	15
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	15
Relationship between narrative ability and executive functions: A longitudinal study in kindergarten classrooms	14
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	13
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	12
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	12
From spontaneous focusing on numerosity to mathematics achievement: The mediating role of non-symbolic number processing and mapping between symbolic and non-symbolic representations of number	12
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	12
Effect of instruction medium and modality on learning spatial concepts	12
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	11
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	11

Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	11
Is variety the spice of life? The role of variability in early word learning	11
Spontaneous focus on patterns and arithmetic skill in 4- to 6-year-old children	11
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	10
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	10
Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	10
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	10
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	9
Children deny that God could change morality	9
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	9
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	9
Executive functions and decision making in childhood: A systematic review	9
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	9
Editorial Board	8
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	8
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	8
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	8
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
Relative age effect in formal musical training	8
Unlocking potentials: Impact of integrating scaffolded educational escape rooms on junior high school students’ motivation, creativity, and academic achievement in Chinese language instruction	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	8
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	8
Influences of training length on the effectiveness of a number board intervention for 6-year-old German kindergartners	8
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	7
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	7
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	7
The role of phonological decoding, rapid automatized naming, and morphological awareness in Chinese reading acquisition among 6- to 8-year-olds in Taiwan	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	7
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	7
Cultivating the toddler data desert with the Visual Attention Processing Protocol (VAPP): A novel scalable measure of individual differences in attentional processing from 2 to 6 years old	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Editorial Board	7
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	7
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	7
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	7
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	7
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	6
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	6

Simplicity and validity in infant research	6
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
Ordinal processing in children with mathematics learning disabilities	6
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	6
How young children come to recommend resource choices that reduce waste	6
Children’s endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object’s tangibility	6
Predictors and outcomes associated with early math anxiety: Parental factors, working memory and math performance	6
The relative age effect in secondary schools	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	6
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	6
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Relations between morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge and word reading in different orthographies and scripts: Evidence from Africa and Asia	5
Motivational context does not influence children’s third-party punishment in intergroup contexts	5
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	5
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	5
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	5
Latine dual language learners' bilingual development in math and cognition: A longitudinal latent profile analysis	5
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	5
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Language context shapes bilingual children’s memory for newly encountered words	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
Development of an object-space binding bias in episodic memory	5
Internal manipulation of working memory: Developmental differences in early childhood	5