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

Article	Citations
A developmental perspective on mind wandering and its relation to goal-directed thought	113
Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in sense of agency	49
When did it happen? Verbal information about causal relations affects time estimation	38
Mapping the pre-reflective experience of “self” to the brain - An ERP study	34
Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness	34
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries	29
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	28
Editorial Board	27
Perception of eye contact, self-referential thinking and age	26
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	25
The feeling of the passage of time linked to individual interoceptive awareness abilities	23
Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience	21
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline	21
Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting	20
Editorial Board	18
Self-reported vividness of tactile imagery for object properties and body regions: An exploratory study	18
Provoking lucid dreams at home with sensory cues paired with pre-sleep cognitive training	18
Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults	18
Implicit visuospatial sequence representations are accessible in both the practice and the transfer hand	18
Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams	18
More than fulfilled expectations: An electrophysiological investigation of varying cause-effect relationships and schizotypal personality traits as related to the sense of agency	17
Judgments of effort and associated cues are influenced by stimulus context	17
Immersive exposure to simulated visual hallucinations modulates high-level human cognition	17
Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence	17
Synesthesia is associated with distinctive patterns in dream content	17

Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean	16
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnosis: Disentangling the effect of induction and suggestion	16
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A	16
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences	15
Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness	13
Neuroelectrophysiological alteration associated with cognitive flexibility after 24 h sleep deprivation in adolescents	13
Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception	13
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	13
Retraction notice to “Meditation-induced states predict attentional control over time“ [Conscious. Cogn. 37 (2015) 57–62]	12
Is the temporal binding effect in the Libet clock-task based in spatial working memory? A correlational and a dual-task approach	12
Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm	12
How do irrelevant stimuli from another modality influence responses to the targets in a same-different task	12
Dynamics of spontaneous thoughts: Exploration, attentional profile and the segmentation of the stream of thoughts	12
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	12
High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy masking	12
Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density	12
“Invisible Dangers”: Unconscious processing of angry vs fearful faces and its relationship to subjective anger	11
Can masked gaze and arrow stimuli elicit overt orienting of attention? A registered report	11
Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task	11
Doubting the double-blind: Introducing a questionnaire for awareness of experimental purposes in neurofeedback studies	11
Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces	10
How mortality awareness regulates intertemporal Choice: A joint effect of endpoint reminder and retrospective episodic thinking	10
What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task	10
Is visual metacognition associated with autistic traits? A regression analysis shows no link between visual metacognition and Autism-Spectrum Quotient scores	10
Olfactory metacognition and memory in individuals with different subjective odor imagery abilities	10
Aphantasia and autism: An investigation of mental imagery vividness	9
Editorial Board	9
Preoccupation priming: How repetitive thinking can influence our involuntary memories	9
How “diagnostic” criteria interact to shape synesthetic behavior: The role of self-report and test–retest consistency in synesthesia research	9
The role of self-related information in the sense of agency	9
Editorial Board	9
Semantic memory and associative ability as predictors of divergent thinking and visual artistic creativity: An expert-novice comparison	9
Editorial Board	9
Perceptual event boundaries cause mnemonic trade-offs between temporal order memory and source Memory: The role of semantic relatedness among items	9
Ignorance and moral judgment: Testing the logical priority of the epistemic	9
Finding oneself in someone else’s shoes: The role of perspective in literary texts	9
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study	9
The influence of perceptual load on gaze-induced attentional orienting: The modulation of expectation	9
Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance	8
How hypnotic suggestions work – A systematic review of prominent theories of hypnosis	8
Non-motor cues do not generate the perception of self-agency: A critique of cue-integration	8
The Hitchhiker’s guide to hallucination research	8
Continuity or compensation? – A hypothesis testing study concerning two types of dreamers’ Aggressive Behaviors in Nightmares	8
Taxometric evidence for a dimensional latent structure of hypnotic suggestibility	8
Real-world Statistical Regularity Impacts Inattentional Blindness	8
Tactile temporal order judgment during rubber hand illusion: Distinct modulation of the point of subjective simultaneity and temporal resolution	8
The roles of recollection and familiarity in the positive association between dream lucidity and reality monitoring: Evidence from ERPs and EEG	8
Action without agent, but with awareness? meditation and the modulation of agency induced sensory suppression	8
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population	8

Typicality modulates the visual awareness of objects	8
Editorial Board	8
Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment	8
Moving through time: The influence of body motion on temporal concepts of future in Chinese sighted and blind people	8
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills	7
The altered state of consciousness induced by Δ9-THC	7
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery	7
The kaleidoscope of bizarreness: The analysis of first-person-reports shows the relationship between dreaming and mind wandering to be complex	7
Editorial Board	7
Temporal error monitoring: Monitoring of internal clock or just motor noise?	7
Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects	7
The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research	7
Action selection and simultaneously presented emotional sound and reward: Differential effects on implicit and explicit sense of agency	7
Predictive processing and perception: What does imagining have to do with it?	7
Partial awareness during voluntary endogenous decision	7
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study	7
Not just in sync: Relations between partners’ actions influence the sense of joint agency during joint action	7
Differences in the detail: Metacognition is better for seen than sensed changes to visual scenes	7
Editorial Board	7
The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations	7
Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous: Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing	7
The role of visual and verbal working memory in remembering the past and imagining the future	7
Ontological conceptions of information cannot account for consciousness	6
Functions of consciousness in emotional processing	6
Editorial Board	6
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	6
Optimising episodic encoding within segmented virtual contexts	6
Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception	6
A dual process model of spontaneous conscious thought	6
Disentangling task conflict and information conflict in the Stroop task	6
The effect of context on mind-wandering in younger and older adults	6
Mental rotation with colored cube figures	6
The feeling of the passage of time against the time of the external clock	6
When action expectation meets reward history: The interaction of proactive and reactive control during inhibitory control	6
Dreaming is a conscious experience in its own right: proponents of non-cognitive and non-executive theories of dreaming suffer from a retrospective illusion of their waking extended self	6
Neurophysiological features of dream recall and the phenomenology of dreams: Auditory stimulation impacts dream experiences	6
Prior conscious experience modulates the impact of audiovisual temporal correspondence on unconscious visual processing	6
Intentional binding and self-transcendence: Searching for pro-survival behavior in sense-of-agency	6
Assessing tests of animal consciousness	6
Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment	6
Investigating automatic processing preference in high trait anxiety individuals: Behavioral and neuroelectrophysiological evidence	5
Temporal binding during deliberate rule breaking	5
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	5
Does response inhibition occur unconsciously? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis	5
Self-other differences in intertemporal decision making: An eye-tracking investigation	5
Link between fluid/crystallized intelligence and global/local visual abilities across adulthood	5
Editorial Board	5
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep	5
Developmentally enhanced visual reliability reduces susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion: Evidence from bayesian causal inference	5
Measuring motor awareness and metacognition at the start, middle, and end of a reaching movement	5
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding	5
Self-prioritization effect in the attentional blink paradigm: Attention-based or familiarity-based effect?	5
Editorial Board	5
Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleep	5
Editorial Board	5
Open monitoring meditation alters the EEG gamma coherence in experts meditators: The expert practice exhibit greater right intra-hemispheric functional coupling	5
Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedom	5
Eye gaze direction modulates nonconscious affective contextual effect	5
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency	5
Evidence for the dependence of visual and kinesthetic motor imagery on isolated visual and motor practice	5
Enhancing and advancing the understanding and study of dreaming and memory consolidation: Reflections, challenges, theoretical clarity, and methodological considerations	5
Is there a continuum of agentive awareness across physical and mental actions? The case of quasi-movements	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
I am not the cause of this pain: An experimental study of the cognitive processes underlying causal attribution in the unpredictable situation whether negative outcomes	5
A tale of two architectures	5