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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	80
Editorial Board	28
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	26
Editorial Board	25
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	24
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	24
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	20
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	20
The role of executive functions and fluid intelligence in the prediction of conditional strategy knowledge of self-regulated learning	18
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	17
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	16
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	16
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	16
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	16
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	15
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	15
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	14
Relationship between narrative ability and executive functions: A longitudinal study in kindergarten classrooms	14
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	14
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	14
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	14
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	13
Effect of instruction medium and modality on learning spatial concepts	13
Adolescents’ beliefs about caste-essentialism and their social location in Nepal	13
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	13

Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	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
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	11
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	11
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	11
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	11
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	10
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	10
Children deny that God could change morality	10
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	10
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	10
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	10
Spontaneous focus on patterns and arithmetic skill in 4- to 6-year-old children	10
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	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
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	8
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	8
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
Editorial Board	8
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	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 communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	7
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	7
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	7
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	7
Relative age effect in formal musical training	7
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	7
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	7
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	7
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	6
Editorial Board	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	6
A longitudinal study on basic numerical skills in early numerical development	6
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	6
Semantic long-term memory and verbal working memory performance: How does their relationship change with age?	6
Predictors and outcomes associated with early math anxiety: Parental factors, working memory and math performance	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	6
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	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
Ordinal processing in children with mathematics learning disabilities	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
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	6
The relative age effect in secondary schools	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	6
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	6
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	6
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	6
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
How young children come to recommend resource choices that reduce waste	5
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	5
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	5
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	5
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	5