OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Development 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	24
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	20
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	19
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	18
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	18
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	18
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	14
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	14
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	14
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	14
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	13
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	13
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	12
How much can you learn in one year? How content, pedagogical resources, and learner’s age influence beliefs about knowledge acquisition	12
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	12
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	12
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	12
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	12
Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations	12
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
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	11

Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	11
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	11
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	10
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	10
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	10
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	10
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	10
Contribution of working memory to gesture production in toddlers	10
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	10
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	9
Children deny that God could change morality	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	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
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	8
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	8
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	8
Relative age effect in formal musical training	8
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	8
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	7
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	7
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
Editorial Board	7
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	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
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	7
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	7
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	7
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	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)	6
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
The role of phonological decoding, rapid automatized naming, and morphological awareness in Chinese reading acquisition among 6- to 8-year-olds in Taiwan	6
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	6
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	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

A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	5
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	5
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	5
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	5
The relative age effect in secondary schools	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	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
Semantic long-term memory and verbal working memory performance: How does their relationship change with age?	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
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	5
The role of cognition in person judgments: Introduction to the special issue	4
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	4
Latine dual language learners' bilingual development in math and cognition: A longitudinal latent profile analysis	4
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	4
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	4
The influence of parental guidance on video game performance, exploration, and cortical activity in 5-year-old children	4
When it’s okay to hit: How Turkish and U.S. preschoolers and adults make judgments about permissible and impermissible acts of force	4
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	4
The Early Pretending Survey (EPS): A reliable parent-report measure of pretense type development for 4- to 47-month-olds	4
A multi-method approach to addressing the toddler data desert in attention research	4
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	4
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	4
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	4
Corrigendum to “Relative age effect in formal musical training” [Cognitive Development 75 (2025), 101603]	4
Does reading fluency mediate the relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills and reading comprehension? A study in European Portuguese	4
Is false belief understanding stable from infancy to childhood? We don’t know yet	4
Using numbers strategically: Proportional reasoning induces wealth in-group bias in an equity task	4
Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debate	4
The impact of humor on infant social learning: Insights from social gaze, heart rate variability, and laughter	4
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	4
Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages	4
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	4
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	4
Children’s understanding of gratitude, generosity, and reciprocity	4
Editorial Board	4
Mental imagery and visual working memory abilities appear to be unrelated in childhood: Evidence for individual differences in strategy use	4