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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness	92
Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in sense of agency	40
When did it happen? Verbal information about causal relations affects time estimation	37
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition	31
A developmental perspective on mind wandering and its relation to goal-directed thought	27
On no man’s land: Subjective experiences during unresponsive and responsive sedative states induced by four different anesthetic agents	25
Mapping the pre-reflective experience of “self” to the brain - An ERP study	24
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries	24
The feeling of the passage of time linked to individual interoceptive awareness abilities	23
Editorial Board	22
Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience	22
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision	21
Perception of eye contact, self-referential thinking and age	21
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline	19
Self-reported vividness of tactile imagery for object properties and body regions: An exploratory study	18
Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting	18
Editorial Board	18
Sustained attention is related to heartbeat counting task performance but not to self-reported aspects of interoception and mindfulness	18
Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean	18
Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams	18
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands	17
Immersive exposure to simulated visual hallucinations modulates high-level human cognition	16
Judgments of effort and associated cues are influenced by stimulus context	16
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences	15
More than fulfilled expectations: An electrophysiological investigation of varying cause-effect relationships and schizotypal personality traits as related to the sense of agency	15

Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness	15
Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence	14
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A	14
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
Implicit visuospatial sequence representations are accessible in both the practice and the transfer hand	13
Is visual metacognition associated with autistic traits? A regression analysis shows no link between visual metacognition and Autism-Spectrum Quotient scores	12
Provoking lucid dreams at home with sensory cues paired with pre-sleep cognitive training	12
Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm	12
Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults	12
Editorial Board	12
Doubting the double-blind: Introducing a questionnaire for awareness of experimental purposes in neurofeedback studies	11
Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density	11
Retraction notice to “Meditation-induced states predict attentional control over time“ [Conscious. Cogn. 37 (2015) 57–62]	11
Are implicit affective evaluations related to mental rotation performance?	11
How mortality awareness regulates intertemporal Choice: A joint effect of endpoint reminder and retrospective episodic thinking	11
The role of inhibitory control and ADHD symptoms in the occurrence of involuntary thoughts about the past and future: An individual differences study	11
How “diagnostic” criteria interact to shape synesthetic behavior: The role of self-report and test–retest consistency in synesthesia research	10
How do irrelevant stimuli from another modality influence responses to the targets in a same-different task	10
Olfactory metacognition and memory in individuals with different subjective odor imagery abilities	10
What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task	10
Dynamics of spontaneous thoughts: Exploration, attentional profile and the segmentation of the stream of thoughts	10
Editorial Board	10
Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task	10
Editorial Board	9
Finding oneself in someone else’s shoes: The role of perspective in literary texts	9
Editorial Board	9
Semantic memory and associative ability as predictors of divergent thinking and visual artistic creativity: An expert-novice comparison	9
Can masked gaze and arrow stimuli elicit overt orienting of attention? A registered report	9
Is the temporal binding effect in the Libet clock-task based in spatial working memory? A correlational and a dual-task approach	9
The role of self-related information in the sense of agency	9
Taxometric evidence for a dimensional latent structure of hypnotic suggestibility	9
High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy masking	9
Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces	9
The influence of perceptual load on gaze-induced attentional orienting: The modulation of expectation	9
Editorial Board	9
“Invisible Dangers”: Unconscious processing of angry vs fearful faces and its relationship to subjective anger	9
Perceptual event boundaries cause mnemonic trade-offs between temporal order memory and source Memory: The role of semantic relatedness among items	8
Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance	8
Do group-based mindfulness meditation programs enhance executive functioning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence	8
The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations	8
Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous: Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing	8
Ignorance and moral judgment: Testing the logical priority of the epistemic	8
How hypnotic suggestions work – A systematic review of prominent theories of hypnosis	8
Aphantasia and autism: An investigation of mental imagery vividness	8
Predictive processing and perception: What does imagining have to do with it?	8
Non-motor cues do not generate the perception of self-agency: A critique of cue-integration	8
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study	8
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population	8
Editorial Board	8

Continuity or compensation? – A hypothesis testing study concerning two types of dreamers’ Aggressive Behaviors in Nightmares	8
Typicality modulates the visual awareness of objects	8
Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment	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
Action selection and simultaneously presented emotional sound and reward: Differential effects on implicit and explicit sense of agency	7
Moving through time: The influence of body motion on temporal concepts of future in Chinese sighted and blind people	7
The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research	7
Sense of agency disturbances in movement disorders: A comprehensive review	7
Do the colors of your letters depend on your language? Language-dependent and universal influences on grapheme-color synesthesia in seven languages	7
Editorial Board	7
Studying sense of agency online: Can intentional binding be observed in uncontrolled online settings?	7
Editorial Board	7
Real-world Statistical Regularity Impacts Inattentional Blindness	7
Differences in the detail: Metacognition is better for seen than sensed changes to visual scenes	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
Intention and performance when reading aloud: Context is everything	7
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery	7
Tactile temporal order judgment during rubber hand illusion: Distinct modulation of the point of subjective simultaneity and temporal resolution	7
Ontological conceptions of information cannot account for consciousness	6
The feeling of the passage of time against the time of the external clock	6
The effect of context on mind-wandering in younger and older adults	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
Prior conscious experience modulates the impact of audiovisual temporal correspondence on unconscious visual processing	6
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?	6
Assessing tests of animal consciousness	6
Intentional binding and self-transcendence: Searching for pro-survival behavior in sense-of-agency	6
A dual process model of spontaneous conscious thought	6
Functions of consciousness in emotional processing	6
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills	6
Mental rotation with colored cube figures	6
Disentangling task conflict and information conflict in the Stroop task	6
Neurophysiological features of dream recall and the phenomenology of dreams: Auditory stimulation impacts dream experiences	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
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention	6
The altered state of consciousness induced by Δ9-THC	6
Editorial Board	6
Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment	5
Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleep	5
Editorial Board	5
Link between fluid/crystallized intelligence and global/local visual abilities across adulthood	5
The effect of font readability on the Moses illusion: A replication study	5
Temporal binding during deliberate rule breaking	5
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency	5
Automatic gaze to the nose region cannot be inhibited during observation of facial expression in Eastern observers	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
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
Self-other differences in intertemporal decision making: An eye-tracking investigation	5
Is there a continuum of agentive awareness across physical and mental actions? The case of quasi-movements	5
Optimising episodic encoding within segmented virtual contexts	5
Editorial Board	5
Eye gaze direction modulates nonconscious affective contextual effect	5
Open monitoring meditation alters the EEG gamma coherence in experts meditators: The expert practice exhibit greater right intra-hemispheric functional coupling	5
A tale of two architectures	5
Dissociation between temporal attention and Consciousness: Unconscious temporal cue induces temporal expectation effect	5
Evidence for the dependence of visual and kinesthetic motor imagery on isolated visual and motor practice	5
Induced awareness of synesthetic sensations in synesthetically predisposed “Borderline Non-synesthetes”	5
Does response inhibition occur unconsciously? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis	5
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults	5
Editorial Board	5
Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedom	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
Investigating automatic processing preference in high trait anxiety individuals: Behavioral and neuroelectrophysiological evidence	5
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy	5
Self-prioritization effect in the attentional blink paradigm: Attention-based or familiarity-based effect?	5