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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Perception of eye contact, self-referential thinking and age	58
When did it happen? Verbal information about causal relations affects time estimation	41
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	40
A developmental perspective on mind wandering and its relation to goal-directed thought	35
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	34
Editorial Board	33
Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience	31
The feeling of the passage of time linked to individual interoceptive awareness abilities	26
Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in sense of agency	25
Mapping the pre-reflective experience of “self” to the brain - An ERP study	25
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries	24
Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting	23
Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams	22
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	22
Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults	22
Neuroelectrophysiological alteration associated with cognitive flexibility after 24 h sleep deprivation in adolescents	20
Implicit visuospatial sequence representations are accessible in both the practice and the transfer hand	20
Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence	20
Self-reported vividness of tactile imagery for object properties and body regions: An exploratory study	19
Editorial Board	19
Judgments of effort and associated cues are influenced by stimulus context	18
More than fulfilled expectations: An electrophysiological investigation of varying cause-effect relationships and schizotypal personality traits as related to the sense of agency	18
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnosis: Disentangling the effect of induction and suggestion	17
Immersive exposure to simulated visual hallucinations modulates high-level human cognition	17
Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception	15

Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences	15
Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean	15
Provoking lucid dreams at home with sensory cues paired with pre-sleep cognitive training	15
Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness	14
Age(ncy) differences: Age-related changes in the use of sense of agency cues	14
Synesthesia is associated with distinctive patterns in dream content	14
Editorial Board	13
Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm	13
Is the temporal binding effect in the Libet clock-task based in spatial working memory? A correlational and a dual-task approach	12
Retraction notice to “Meditation-induced states predict attentional control over time“ [Conscious. Cogn. 37 (2015) 57–62]	12
Can masked gaze and arrow stimuli elicit overt orienting of attention? A registered report	12
Dynamics of spontaneous thoughts: Exploration, attentional profile and the segmentation of the stream of thoughts	12
Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task	12
Semantic memory and associative ability as predictors of divergent thinking and visual artistic creativity: An expert-novice comparison	12
How do irrelevant stimuli from another modality influence responses to the targets in a same-different task	12
Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density	12
Editorial Board	11
High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy masking	11
Olfactory metacognition and memory in individuals with different subjective odor imagery abilities	11
Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces	11
Is visual metacognition associated with autistic traits? A regression analysis shows no link between visual metacognition and Autism-Spectrum Quotient scores	11
Finding oneself in someone else’s shoes: The role of perspective in literary texts	10
Doubting the double-blind: Introducing a questionnaire for awareness of experimental purposes in neurofeedback studies	10
Editorial Board	10
“Invisible Dangers”: Unconscious processing of angry vs fearful faces and its relationship to subjective anger	10
What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task	10
Editorial Board	10
How “diagnostic” criteria interact to shape synesthetic behavior: The role of self-report and test–retest consistency in synesthesia research	10
How mortality awareness regulates intertemporal Choice: A joint effect of endpoint reminder and retrospective episodic thinking	10
The influence of perceptual load on gaze-induced attentional orienting: The modulation of expectation	9
Mental control and effort differ across different kinds of mental action	9
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study	9
Preoccupation priming: How repetitive thinking can influence our involuntary memories	9
Ignorance and moral judgment: Testing the logical priority of the epistemic	9
Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance	9
The role of self-related information in the sense of agency	9
How hypnotic suggestions work – A systematic review of prominent theories of hypnosis	9
Aphantasia and autism: An investigation of mental imagery vividness	9
Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment	8
The Hitchhiker’s guide to hallucination research	8
Perceptual event boundaries cause mnemonic trade-offs between temporal order memory and source Memory: The role of semantic relatedness among items	8
Tactile temporal order judgment during rubber hand illusion: Distinct modulation of the point of subjective simultaneity and temporal resolution	8
Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous: Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing	8
The role of visual and verbal working memory in remembering the past and imagining the future	8
Action without agent, but with awareness? meditation and the modulation of agency induced sensory suppression	8
Real-world Statistical Regularity Impacts Inattentional Blindness	8
Editorial Board	8
Continuity or compensation? – A hypothesis testing study concerning two types of dreamers’ Aggressive Behaviors in Nightmares	8
Moving through time: The influence of body motion on temporal concepts of future in Chinese sighted and blind people	8
Distinct perceptual-metacognitive profiles of interoceptive and exteroceptive timing	8

The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations	8
Non-motor cues do not generate the perception of self-agency: A critique of cue-integration	8
Predictive processing and perception: What does imagining have to do with it?	8
The roles of recollection and familiarity in the positive association between dream lucidity and reality monitoring: Evidence from ERPs and EEG	8
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills	7
Comparing semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming to reminiscence priming on an involuntary memory task	7
Neurophysiological features of dream recall and the phenomenology of dreams: Auditory stimulation impacts dream experiences	7
Prior conscious experience modulates the impact of audiovisual temporal correspondence on unconscious visual processing	7
Temporal error monitoring: Monitoring of internal clock or just motor noise?	7
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery	7
Partial awareness during voluntary endogenous decision	7
Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects	7
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study	7
Ontological conceptions of information cannot account for consciousness	7
Editorial Board	7
The altered state of consciousness induced by Δ9-THC	7
The power of tactile imagery: parallels between imagined and physical CT-optimal touch in pleasantness and velocity	7
Editorial Board	7
Differences in the detail: Metacognition is better for seen than sensed changes to visual scenes	7
The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research	7
Not just in sync: Relations between partners’ actions influence the sense of joint agency during joint action	7
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	7
Editorial Board	7
The kaleidoscope of bizarreness: The analysis of first-person-reports shows the relationship between dreaming and mind wandering to be complex	7
Action selection and simultaneously presented emotional sound and reward: Differential effects on implicit and explicit sense of agency	7
Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception	6
A dual process model of spontaneous conscious thought	6
Intentional binding and self-transcendence: Searching for pro-survival behavior in sense-of-agency	6
Enhancing and advancing the understanding and study of dreaming and memory consolidation: Reflections, challenges, theoretical clarity, and methodological considerations	6
On sensory similarities	6
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	6
Assessing tests of animal consciousness	6
Disentangling task conflict and information conflict in the Stroop task [Registered Report - Stage I]	6
Mental rotation with colored cube figures	6
The feeling of the passage of time against the time of the external clock	6
Functions of consciousness in emotional processing	6
Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment	6
Self-other differences in intertemporal decision making: An eye-tracking investigation	5
Editorial Board	5
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency	5
Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedom	5
Eye gaze direction modulates nonconscious affective contextual effect	5
Does response inhibition occur unconsciously? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis	5
Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleep	5
When action expectation meets reward history: The interaction of proactive and reactive control during inhibitory control	5
Pre- and post-cue effects on temporal order perception under orthogonal response mapping	5
Intimation as a potentially useful subjective human experience: Insights from cognitive psychology 100 years following Wallas’s (1926) The Art of Thought	5
Measuring motor awareness and metacognition at the start, middle, and end of a reaching movement	5
Open monitoring meditation alters the EEG gamma coherence in experts meditators: The expert practice exhibit greater right intra-hemispheric functional coupling	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
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	5
Induced awareness of synesthetic sensations in synesthetically predisposed “Borderline Non-synesthetes”	5
Optimising episodic encoding within segmented virtual contexts	5
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding	5
Editorial Board	5
Temporal binding during deliberate rule breaking	5
Investigating automatic processing preference in high trait anxiety individuals: Behavioral and neuroelectrophysiological evidence	5
Dissociation between temporal attention and Consciousness: Unconscious temporal cue induces temporal expectation effect	5
Link between fluid/crystallized intelligence and global/local visual abilities across adulthood	5
Evidence for the dependence of visual and kinesthetic motor imagery on isolated visual and motor practice	5
Is there a continuum of agentive awareness across physical and mental actions? The case of quasi-movements	5
Self-prioritization effect in the attentional blink paradigm: Attention-based or familiarity-based effect?	5