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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population	44
Mindfulness induction and cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis	41
Delusions and theories of belief	29
The first prior: From co-embodiment to co-homeostasis in early life	28
Dream engineering: Simulating worlds through sensory stimulation	27
An electroencephalographic examination of the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)	27
Exploring patterns of ongoing thought under naturalistic and conventional task-based conditions	26
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline	26
What is the relationship between Aphantasia, Synaesthesia and Autism?	26
Direct verbal suggestibility: Measurement and significance	25
Functional connectivity associated with five different categories of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) triggers	23
The Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) scale: Development and psychometric validation	23
The Aha! moment: Is insight a different form of problem solving?	23
Selfhood triumvirate: From phenomenology to brain activity and back again	22
Intentional action and limitation of personal autonomy. Do restrictions of action selection decrease the sense of agency?	21
Varieties of the extended self	21
The entropic tongue: Disorganization of natural language under LSD	20
The weirdness of belief in free will	20
Nostalgia, reflection, brooding: Psychological benefits and autobiographical memory functions	18
Does COVID-19 impact the frequency of threatening events in dreams? An exploration of pandemic dreaming in light of contemporary dream theories	18
I overthink—Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder	17
How pills undermine skills: Moralization of cognitive enhancement and causal selection	17
Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device	17
Why expectations do or do not change after expectation violation: A comparison of seven models	16
‘Defrosting’ music chills with naltrexone: The role of endogenous opioids for the intensity of musical pleasure	15

Diverging implicit measurement of sense of agency using interval estimation and Libet clock	15
Does a smartphone on the desk drain our brain? No evidence of cognitive costs due to smartphone presence in a short-term and prospective memory task	15
Free to blame? Belief in free will is related to victim blaming	15
Meditation, well-being and cognition in heartfulness meditators – A pilot study	14
Effects of 1 mA and 2 mA transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory performance in healthy participants	14
Dream lucidity is associated with positive waking mood	14
The minimal self hypothesis	14
Excessive use of reminders: Metacognition and effort-minimisation in cognitive offloading	14
Two faces of temporal binding: Action- and effect-binding are not correlated	14
Structure in the stream of consciousness: Evidence from a verbalized thought protocol and automated text analytic methods	13
Conscious intention and human action: Review of the rise and fall of the readiness potential and Libet’s clock	13
Pre-stimulus alpha predicts inattentional blindness	13
Visual awareness and the levels of processing hypothesis: A critical review	12
Altering access to autobiographical episodes with prior semantic knowledge	12
Sense of agency: Sensorimotor signals and social context are differentially weighed at implicit and explicit levels	12
A distinction concerning vision-for-action and affordance perception	12
Prosthesis embodiment and attenuation of prosthetic touch in upper limb amputees – A proof-of-concept study	12
A mixed-methods examination of autonomous sensory meridian response: Comparison to frisson	11
The discrepant effect of acute stress on cognitive inhibition and response inhibition	11
Creativity on tap 2: Investigating dose effects of alcohol on cognitive control and creative cognition	11
Individual differences in sensory integration predict differences in time perception and individual levels of schizotypy	11
Individual differences impact memory for a crime: A study on executive functions resources	11
Is auditory awareness negativity confounded by performance?	11
Attempted induction of signalled lucid dreaming by transcranial alternating current stimulation	11
Sense of agency disturbances in movement disorders: A comprehensive review	11
Examining the robustness of the relationship between metacognitive efficiency and metacognitive bias	11
Electrophysiological correlates of self-prioritization	10
Revisiting consciousness: Distinguishing between states of conscious focused attention and mind wandering with EEG	10
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	10
Congenital lack and extraordinary ability in object and spatial imagery: An investigation on sub-types of aphantasia and hyperphantasia	10
Dreams reflect nocturnal cognitive processes: Early-night dreams are more continuous with waking life, and late-night dreams are more emotional and hyperassociative	10
Jumping to conclusions in the less-delusion-prone? Further evidence from a more reliable beads task	10
Restructuring insight: An integrative review of insight in problem-solving, meditation, psychotherapy, delusions and psychedelics	10
Priming autobiographical memories: How recalling the past may affect everyday forms of autobiographical remembering	10
Elucidating the mental processes underlying the direct retrieval of autobiographical memories	9
Visual consciousness of faces in the attentional blink: Knowledge-based effects of trustworthiness dominate over appearance-based impressions	9
The temporal sensitivity to the tactile-induced double flash illusion mediates the impact of beta oscillations on schizotypal personality traits	9
The spatial specificity of sensory attenuation for self-touch	9
Knowledge, adequacy, and approximate truth	9
Do group-based mindfulness meditation programs enhance executive functioning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence	9
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A	9
Reasoning about conscious experience with axiomatic and graphical mathematics	9
Brain states matter. A reply to the unfolding argument	9
Investigating the role of involuntary retrieval in music-evoked autobiographical memories	8
Relative fluency (unfelt vs felt) in active inference	8
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?	8
Age-related changes in ongoing thought relate to external context and individual cognition	8
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	8
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	8
Hotspots in the immediate aftermath of trauma – Mental imagery of worst moments highlighting time, space and motion	8

The valence and the functions of autobiographical memories: Does intensity matter?	8
Neural processing of lateralised task-irrelevant fearful faces under different awareness conditions	8
A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood	7
The temporally-integrated causality landscape: A theoretical framework for consciousness and meaning	7
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	7
The impact of state and dispositional mindfulness on prospective memory: A virtual reality study	7
Cognitive load mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement	7
Touching you, touching me: Higher incidence of mirror-touch synaesthesia and positive (but not negative) reactions to social touch in Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response	7
Sleep fragmentation and lucid dreaming	7
Looking at remembering: Eye movements, pupil size, and autobiographical memory	7
Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation	7
More than off-task: Increased freely-moving thought in ADHD	7
Sustained attention is related to heartbeat counting task performance but not to self-reported aspects of interoception and mindfulness	7
The role of affective touch in whole-body embodiment remains equivocal	7
Sleeping poorly is robustly associated with a tendency to engage in spontaneous waking thought	7
Flying dreams stimulated by an immersive virtual reality task	7
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency	7
Metacognition and mindreading in young children: A cross-cultural study	7
While you were sleeping: Evidence for high-level executive processing of an auditory narrative during sleep	7
Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications	7
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study	7
Partial memory reinstatement while (lucid) dreaming to change the dream environment	7
Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming affects involuntary autobiographical memory production after a long delay	6
Emotion matters: The influence of valence on episodic future thinking in young and older adults	6
Spatial anticipatory attentional bias for threat: Reliable individual differences with RT-based online measurement	6
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep	6
Individual differences in the tendency to see the expected	6
Extracting blinks from continuous eye-tracking data in a mind wandering paradigm	6
Embodied cognition: So flexible as to be “disembodied”?	6
Visual perspective as a two-dimensional construct in episodic future thought	6
Metacognition and emotion – How accurate perception of own biases relates to positive feelings and hedonic capacity	6
Time to update our suggestibility scales	6
A psychologically based taxonomy of Magicians’ forcing Techniques: How magicians influence our choices, and how to use this to study psychological mechanisms	6
Inducing lucid dreams by olfactory-cued reactivation of reality testing during early-morning sleep: A proof of concept	6
The stability of visual perspective and vividness during mental time travel	6
Sitting with it: An investigation of the relationship between trait mindfulness and sustained attention	6
Masked blindsight in normal observers: Measuring subjective and objective responses to two features of each stimulus	6
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	6
Inducing signal-verified lucid dreams in 40% of untrained novice lucid dreamers within two nights in a sleep laboratory setting	5
Fluent processing leads to positive stimulus evaluations even when base rates suggest negative evaluations	5
Consciousness can overflow report: Novel evidence from attribute amnesia of a single stimulus	5
Patterns of ongoing thought in the real world	5
An Investigation of Awareness and Metacognition in Neurofeedback with the Amygdala Electrical Fingerprint	5
The conscious experience of color constancy and neural responses to subliminal deviations – A behavioral and EEG/ERP oddball study	5
Valence, form, and content of self-talk predict sport type and level of performance	5
Sensory attenuation of action outcomes of varying amplitude and valence	5
On the relation between mind wandering, PTSD symptomology, and self-control	5
Top-down imagery overrides the influence of selection history effects	5
Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception	5
Increased pupil dilation during tip-of-the-tongue states	5
The temporal evolution of pre-stimulus slow cortical potentials is associated with an upcoming stimulus’ access to visual consciousness	5
Primary states of consciousness: A review of historical and contemporary developments	5
Vicarious ostracism reduces observers’ sense of agency	5
Computational models of the “active self” and its disturbances in schizophrenia	5
The role of inhibitory control and ADHD symptoms in the occurrence of involuntary thoughts about the past and future: An individual differences study	5
The link between math anxiety and performance does not depend on working memory: A network analysis study	5
Influence of vestibular signals on bodily self-consciousness: Different sensory weighting strategies based on visual dependency	5
Blackout of my nights: Contentless, timeless and selfless report from the night in patients with central hypersomnias	5
The relation between task-relatedness of anxiety and metacognitive performance	5
Visual awareness judgments are sensitive to accuracy feedback in stimulus discrimination tasks	5
Faster might not be better: Pictures may not elicit a stronger unconscious priming effect than words when modulated by semantic similarity	5
Contextual cueing is not flexible	5
The production of false recognition and the associated state of consciousness following encoding in a naturalistic context in aging	5
Vergence eye movements during figure-ground perception	5