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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A developmental perspective on mind wandering and its relation to goal-directed thought	105
Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in sense of agency	46
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	36
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries	33
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline	31
Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting	28
Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness	25
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	25
Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience	24
On no man’s land: Subjective experiences during unresponsive and responsive sedative states induced by four different anesthetic agents	23
When did it happen? Verbal information about causal relations affects time estimation	23
Editorial Board	21
Perception of eye contact, self-referential thinking and age	21
Mapping the pre-reflective experience of “self” to the brain - An ERP study	21
The feeling of the passage of time linked to individual interoceptive awareness abilities	20
Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean	20
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences	19
Immersive exposure to simulated visual hallucinations modulates high-level human cognition	18
Judgments of effort and associated cues are influenced by stimulus context	18
Neuroelectrophysiological alteration associated with cognitive flexibility after 24 h sleep deprivation in adolescents	17
Implicit visuospatial sequence representations are accessible in both the practice and the transfer hand	17
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A	17
Provoking lucid dreams at home with sensory cues paired with pre-sleep cognitive training	17
Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness	17
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnosis: Disentangling the effect of induction and suggestion	16

Editorial Board	16
Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception	16
Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults	15
Self-reported vividness of tactile imagery for object properties and body regions: An exploratory study	15
Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams	14
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	14
Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence	13
More than fulfilled expectations: An electrophysiological investigation of varying cause-effect relationships and schizotypal personality traits as related to the sense of agency	13
Editorial Board	12
Dynamics of spontaneous thoughts: Exploration, attentional profile and the segmentation of the stream of thoughts	12
Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm	12
How mortality awareness regulates intertemporal Choice: A joint effect of endpoint reminder and retrospective episodic thinking	12
Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density	12
Semantic memory and associative ability as predictors of divergent thinking and visual artistic creativity: An expert-novice comparison	12
Doubting the double-blind: Introducing a questionnaire for awareness of experimental purposes in neurofeedback studies	11
What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task	11
Is visual metacognition associated with autistic traits? A regression analysis shows no link between visual metacognition and Autism-Spectrum Quotient scores	11
How “diagnostic” criteria interact to shape synesthetic behavior: The role of self-report and test–retest consistency in synesthesia research	11
Is the temporal binding effect in the Libet clock-task based in spatial working memory? A correlational and a dual-task approach	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
High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy masking	10
Olfactory metacognition and memory in individuals with different subjective odor imagery abilities	10
Retraction notice to “Meditation-induced states predict attentional control over time“ [Conscious. Cogn. 37 (2015) 57–62]	10
Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces	10
Editorial Board	10
How do irrelevant stimuli from another modality influence responses to the targets in a same-different task	10
“Invisible Dangers”: Unconscious processing of angry vs fearful faces and its relationship to subjective anger	10
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study	9
Taxometric evidence for a dimensional latent structure of hypnotic suggestibility	9
Aphantasia and autism: An investigation of mental imagery vividness	9
Editorial Board	9
How hypnotic suggestions work – A systematic review of prominent theories of hypnosis	9
Finding oneself in someone else’s shoes: The role of perspective in literary texts	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
The role of self-related information in the sense of agency	9
Editorial Board	8
Tactile temporal order judgment during rubber hand illusion: Distinct modulation of the point of subjective simultaneity and temporal resolution	8
Non-motor cues do not generate the perception of self-agency: A critique of cue-integration	8
Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous: Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing	8
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population	8
Real-world Statistical Regularity Impacts Inattentional Blindness	8
Moving through time: The influence of body motion on temporal concepts of future in Chinese sighted and blind people	8
Typicality modulates the visual awareness of objects	8
Ignorance and moral judgment: Testing the logical priority of the epistemic	8
Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance	8
Editorial Board	8
Sense of agency disturbances in movement disorders: A comprehensive review	8
Predictive processing and perception: What does imagining have to do with it?	8

The influence of perceptual load on gaze-induced attentional orienting: The modulation of expectation	8
The Hitchhiker’s guide to hallucination research	7
The role of visual and verbal working memory in remembering the past and imagining the future	7
Partial awareness during voluntary endogenous decision	7
Editorial Board	7
Continuity or compensation? – A hypothesis testing study concerning two types of dreamers’ Aggressive Behaviors in Nightmares	7
The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations	7
Editorial Board	7
Not just in sync: Relations between partners’ actions influence the sense of joint agency during joint action	7
Temporal error monitoring: Monitoring of internal clock or just motor noise?	7
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery	7
Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment	7
The roles of recollection and familiarity in the positive association between dream lucidity and reality monitoring: Evidence from ERPs and EEG	7
Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects	7
Action selection and simultaneously presented emotional sound and reward: Differential effects on implicit and explicit sense of agency	7
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study	6
Differences in the detail: Metacognition is better for seen than sensed changes to visual scenes	6
Ontological conceptions of information cannot account for consciousness	6
Mental rotation with colored cube figures	6
Intentional binding and self-transcendence: Searching for pro-survival behavior in sense-of-agency	6
Assessing tests of animal consciousness	6
Editorial Board	6
Disentangling task conflict and information conflict in the Stroop task	6
The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research	6
Prior conscious experience modulates the impact of audiovisual temporal correspondence on unconscious visual processing	6
Functions of consciousness in emotional processing	6
Hypnotic predictors of agency: Responsiveness to specific suggestions in hypnosis is associated with involuntariness in fibromyalgia	6
Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception	6
The feeling of the passage of time against the time of the external clock	6
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills	6
The altered state of consciousness induced by Δ9-THC	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
The effect of context on mind-wandering in younger and older adults	6
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?	6
A dual process model of spontaneous conscious thought	6
Editorial Board	5
Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleep	5
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	5
When action expectation meets reward history: The interaction of proactive and reactive control during inhibitory control	5
Evidence for the dependence of visual and kinesthetic motor imagery on isolated visual and motor practice	5
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	5
A tale of two architectures	5
Editorial Board	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
Does response inhibition occur unconsciously? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis	5
Self-prioritization effect in the attentional blink paradigm: Attention-based or familiarity-based effect?	5
Induced awareness of synesthetic sensations in synesthetically predisposed “Borderline Non-synesthetes”	5
Optimising episodic encoding within segmented virtual contexts	5
Self-other differences in intertemporal decision making: An eye-tracking investigation	5
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy	5
Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedom	5
Temporal binding during deliberate rule breaking	5
Investigating automatic processing preference in high trait anxiety individuals: Behavioral and neuroelectrophysiological evidence	5
Link between fluid/crystallized intelligence and global/local visual abilities across adulthood	5
Is there a continuum of agentive awareness across physical and mental actions? The case of quasi-movements	5
Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment	5
Enhancing and advancing the understanding and study of dreaming and memory consolidation: Reflections, challenges, theoretical clarity, and methodological considerations	5
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding	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
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep	5
Measuring motor awareness and metacognition at the start, middle, and end of a reaching movement	5
Eye gaze direction modulates nonconscious affective contextual effect	5