OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 59. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs	320
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships	294
Advisory Board and Contents	294
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Anxiety involves altered planning	241
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception	200
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions	195
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history	156
Brain leakage exposes covert cognitive computations in bodily movements	155
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change	154
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function	151
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils	135
What counts when heartbeats are counted	132
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry	126
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement	124
Positive appraisal style as a key factor in stress resilience	123
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation	121
Subscription and Copyright Information	119
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively	118
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain	117
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience	116
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape	113
To model human linguistic prediction, make LLMs less superhuman	112
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior	108
Bayesian efficient coding as a theory of perception: progress, controversies, and prospects	106

Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteria	106
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans	103
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation	98
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions	98
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition	97
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia	95
How can we validate theory-derived indicators of consciousness in Artificial Intelligence?	92
Subscription and Copyright Information	92
Building word meanings from memories and predictions	89
People think of women as one thing, men as many	88
Intuitive theories of truth	87
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Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex	77
Advisory Board and Contents	77
Simplifying social learning	73
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention	72
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination	71
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus	71
The ‘design features’ of language revisited	68
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory	68
Beyond discrete-choice options	67
Advisory Board and Contents	66
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Awake reactivation is not a uniform process	63
Advisory Board and Contents	63
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?	62
Advisory Board and Contents	61
The cognitive side of communication in social insects	61
A unifying taxonomy of dyadic emotional processes	61
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable	60
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?	59
Hearing and cognition across the menopause transition	59