Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The H4-Index of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 57. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Advisory Board and Contents284
Ritalin as a causal perturbation272
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Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils246
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions216
Brain leakage exposes covert cognitive computations in bodily movements175
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs170
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement165
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry158
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function140
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change139
Anxiety involves altered planning132
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships130
What counts when heartbeats are counted119
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception117
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history113
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain112
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Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape111
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience108
Abstract task representations for inference and control107
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions107
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively105
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning102
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans98
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia97
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation94
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition92
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior91
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation90
Simplifying social learning87
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Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex86
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Advisory Board and Contents81
Beyond discrete-choice options81
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention80
Intuitive theories of truth77
People think of women as one thing, men as many72
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus71
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory70
How can we validate theory-derived indicators of consciousness in Artificial Intelligence?68
The ‘design features’ of language revisited67
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination67
Advisory Board and Contents65
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Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect63
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging63
Reward is enough for social learning62
Advisory Board and Contents61
Contextual inference in learning and memory60
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process60
Advisory Board and Contents58
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?58
A unifying taxonomy of dyadic emotional processes57
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