OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Consciousness and Cognition 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
Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness	81
Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in sense of agency	45
When did it happen? Verbal information about causal relations affects time estimation	37
Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting	35
A developmental perspective on mind wandering and its relation to goal-directed thought	27
Mapping the pre-reflective experience of “self” to the brain - An ERP study	23
On no man’s land: Subjective experiences during unresponsive and responsive sedative states induced by four different anesthetic agents	23
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline	22
Editorial Board	21
The feeling of the passage of time linked to individual interoceptive awareness abilities	21
Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience	19
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	19
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	17
Sustained attention is related to heartbeat counting task performance but not to self-reported aspects of interoception and mindfulness	17
Perception of eye contact, self-referential thinking and age	17
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries	17
Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams	16
Editorial Board	15
Self-reported vividness of tactile imagery for object properties and body regions: An exploratory study	14
More than fulfilled expectations: An electrophysiological investigation of varying cause-effect relationships and schizotypal personality traits as related to the sense of agency	14
Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean	14
Immersive exposure to simulated visual hallucinations modulates high-level human cognition	13
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	13
Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence	13
Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness	13

Effects of irrelevant object structure on early attention deployment	13
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A	13
Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults	12
Neuroelectrophysiological alteration associated with cognitive flexibility after 24 h sleep deprivation in adolescents	12
Provoking lucid dreams at home with sensory cues paired with pre-sleep cognitive training	12
Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception	12
Implicit visuospatial sequence representations are accessible in both the practice and the transfer hand	12
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences	12
“Invisible Dangers”: Unconscious processing of angry vs fearful faces and its relationship to subjective anger	11
Doubting the double-blind: Introducing a questionnaire for awareness of experimental purposes in neurofeedback studies	11
Editorial Board	11
Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm	11
Dynamics of spontaneous thoughts: Exploration, attentional profile and the segmentation of the stream of thoughts	11
Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density	10
The role of inhibitory control and ADHD symptoms in the occurrence of involuntary thoughts about the past and future: An individual differences study	10
Can masked gaze and arrow stimuli elicit overt orienting of attention? A registered report	10
What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task	10
Retraction notice to “Meditation-induced states predict attentional control over time“ [Conscious. Cogn. 37 (2015) 57–62]	10
Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task	10
How do irrelevant stimuli from another modality influence responses to the targets in a same-different task	10
How mortality awareness regulates intertemporal Choice: A joint effect of endpoint reminder and retrospective episodic thinking	10
Are implicit affective evaluations related to mental rotation performance?	10
Top-down imagery overrides the influence of selection history effects	10
Editorial Board	10
Olfactory metacognition and memory in individuals with different subjective odor imagery abilities	9
Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces	9
Editorial Board	9
High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy masking	9
How “diagnostic” criteria interact to shape synesthetic behavior: The role of self-report and test–retest consistency in synesthesia research	9
The influence of perceptual load on gaze-induced attentional orienting: The modulation of expectation	9
Is visual metacognition associated with autistic traits? A regression analysis shows no link between visual metacognition and Autism-Spectrum Quotient scores	9
Editorial Board	9
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The role of self-related information in the sense of agency	8
How hypnotic suggestions work – A systematic review of prominent theories of hypnosis	8
Editorial Board	8
Taxometric evidence for a dimensional latent structure of hypnotic suggestibility	8
Ignorance and moral judgment: Testing the logical priority of the epistemic	8
Aphantasia and autism: An investigation of mental imagery vividness	8
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population	8
Finding oneself in someone else’s shoes: The role of perspective in literary texts	8
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study	8
Do group-based mindfulness meditation programs enhance executive functioning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence	8
Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance	8
Continuity or compensation? – A hypothesis testing study concerning two types of dreamers’ Aggressive Behaviors in Nightmares	7
Predictive processing and perception: What does imagining have to do with it?	7
Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous: Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing	7
Editorial Board	7
The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research	7
The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations	7

Real-world Statistical Regularity Impacts Inattentional Blindness	7
Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment	7
Action selection and simultaneously presented emotional sound and reward: Differential effects on implicit and explicit sense of agency	7
Sense of agency disturbances in movement disorders: A comprehensive review	7
Typicality modulates the visual awareness of objects	7
Non-motor cues do not generate the perception of self-agency: A critique of cue-integration	7
Tactile temporal order judgment during rubber hand illusion: Distinct modulation of the point of subjective simultaneity and temporal resolution	7
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery	7
Do the colors of your letters depend on your language? Language-dependent and universal influences on grapheme-color synesthesia in seven languages	7
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?	6
Not just in sync: Relations between partners’ actions influence the sense of joint agency during joint action	6
Partial awareness during voluntary endogenous decision	6
Editorial Board	6
Prior conscious experience modulates the impact of audiovisual temporal correspondence on unconscious visual processing	6
Mental rotation with colored cube figures	6
The altered state of consciousness induced by Δ9-THC	6
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study	6
Intention and performance when reading aloud: Context is everything	6
Temporal error monitoring: Monitoring of internal clock or just motor noise?	6
Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception	6
Ontological conceptions of information cannot account for consciousness	6
Differences in the detail: Metacognition is better for seen than sensed changes to visual scenes	6
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills	6
Studying sense of agency online: Can intentional binding be observed in uncontrolled online settings?	6
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Does response inhibition occur unconsciously? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis	5
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Link between fluid/crystallized intelligence and global/local visual abilities across adulthood	5
The effect of context on mind-wandering in younger and older adults	5
Assessing tests of animal consciousness	5
Disentangling task conflict and information conflict in the Stroop task	5
Is there a continuum of agentive awareness across physical and mental actions? The case of quasi-movements	5
Evidence for the dependence of visual and kinesthetic motor imagery on isolated visual and motor practice	5
Open monitoring meditation alters the EEG gamma coherence in experts meditators: The expert practice exhibit greater right intra-hemispheric functional coupling	5
Eye gaze direction modulates nonconscious affective contextual effect	5
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding	5
Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleep	5
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	5
Optimising episodic encoding within segmented virtual contexts	5
Functions of consciousness in emotional processing	5
The feeling of the passage of time against the time of the external clock	5
Self-prioritization effect in the attentional blink paradigm: Attention-based or familiarity-based effect?	5
Intended emotions influence intentional binding with emotional faces: Larger binding for intended negative emotions	5
Automatic gaze to the nose region cannot be inhibited during observation of facial expression in Eastern observers	5
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency	5
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy	5
Doctors inhibit social threat empathy in the later stage of cognitive processing: Electrophysiological evidence	5
Enhancing and advancing the understanding and study of dreaming and memory consolidation: Reflections, challenges, theoretical clarity, and methodological considerations	5
Self-other differences in intertemporal decision making: An eye-tracking investigation	5
Hypnotic predictors of agency: Responsiveness to specific suggestions in hypnosis is associated with involuntariness in fibromyalgia	5
Intentional binding and self-transcendence: Searching for pro-survival behavior in sense-of-agency	5
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	5
A dual process model of spontaneous conscious thought	5
Induced awareness of synesthetic sensations in synesthetically predisposed “Borderline Non-synesthetes”	5
Dissociation between temporal attention and Consciousness: Unconscious temporal cue induces temporal expectation effect	5
Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedom	5