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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	41
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	25
Editorial Board	22
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	22
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	21
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	19
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	18
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	17
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	17
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	16
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	16
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	16
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	15
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	14
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	14
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	14
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	13
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
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	11
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	11
Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations	11
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	11
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	11
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	11

Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	11
How much can you learn in one year? How content, pedagogical resources, and learner’s age influence beliefs about knowledge acquisition	11
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	10
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	10
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	10
Preschoolers represent others’ false beliefs about emotions	10
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	10
Contribution of working memory to gesture production in toddlers	10
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	9
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	9
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	9
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	9
Children deny that God could change morality	9
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	9
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	9
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	9
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	8
Editorial Board	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	7
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	7
Development of spatial size representation of the social categorization of rich and poor	7
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	7
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	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
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	7
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	7
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	7
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	7
The role of phonological decoding, rapid automatized naming, and morphological awareness in Chinese reading acquisition among 6- to 8-year-olds in Taiwan	6
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
A longitudinal study on basic numerical skills in early numerical development	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	6

Semantic long-term memory and verbal working memory performance: How does their relationship change with age?	6
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	6
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	6
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	6
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	6
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	5
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	5
Preschoolers’ acquisition of producer-product metonymy	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	5
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	5
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
Beyond inhibitory control: Relationship between spatial and social skills in preschool children	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
Children’s endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object’s tangibility	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	5
Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages	5