Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Cognitive Sciences 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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
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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
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Contextual inference in learning and memory60
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process60
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Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?58
A unifying taxonomy of dyadic emotional processes57
The cognitive side of communication in social insects56
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable55
Reconceptualizing cognitive listening54
The cognitive origins of geometry54
Hearing and cognition across the menopause transition54
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories52
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI51
Advisory Board and Contents51
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?51
Culture and in-group favoritism in social decision-making51
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?51
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Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy49
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning47
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case47
Simulation-driven mentalizing facilitates projection and introjection46
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing45
Does memory research have a realistic future?44
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy44
Beyond binding: specialization without segregation43
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control43
Decoding cognition in real-time43
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience43
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics43
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?42
Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis42
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition42
Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health42
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture40
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How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps39
No free lunch with the binding problem39
When expert predictions fail39
Memory updating and the structure of event representations38
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing38
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?38
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making38
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision37
Advisory Board and Contents37
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming37
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes37
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research37
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Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics36
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences36
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Language learning as ontogenetic adaptation36
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all36
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers35
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing34
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The cognitive science of eyewitness memory33
Awareness as the heart of working memory33
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics33
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks33
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids32
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power32
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Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making32
How variability shapes learning and generalization32
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity32
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater31
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?29
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories29
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes29
Adversity-based identities drive social change29
Toward understanding the neurophysiological basis of spontaneous thought29
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?29
The topological space of subjective experience29
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song28
Toward embodied, ecological cognition with ambulatory virtual reality28
Better artificial intelligence does not mean better models of biology28
Computational ethics28
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence28
Emotion may indirectly link rendering and social reasoning27
Seeing social interactions27
Interactive repair and the foundations of language27
Can only meat machines be conscious?27
Why nature contact is good for us26
Refining the multimodality of semantic representations26
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The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions26
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory25
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction25
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An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex25
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?25
Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals25
Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news25
Imagining the future self through thought experiments25
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception24
Societies should not ignore their incel problem24
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking24
State-dependent spatial maps for navigation24
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction23
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Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions23
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Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood22
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans21
Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition21
Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?21
Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.21
The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error21
Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence20
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior20
Motor working memory20
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization19
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus19
Reality check: how do we know what's real?19
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health19
Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning18
Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells18
Searching for the Goldilocks zone of climate anxiety18
Learning with certainty in childhood18
Why were the textbooks wrong about brain plasticity?18
Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power18
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Intermediate science knowledge predicts overconfidence17
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise17
Statistical learning in spelling and reading17
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Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain17
Bumblebees as a powerful model for studying cognitive ecology17
Aphantasia as imagery blindsight16
Empathy as a predictive signal: why we devalue AI empathy16
The process of gendering: gender as a verb16
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition16
Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?16
Tracking dynamic social impressions from multidimensional voice representation16
Unpacking the dynamic role of physical effort in shaping behavior16
Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science16
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist16
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories16
Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs16
Emotion and prediction errors: which ingredients matter?16
On second thoughts: changes of mind in decision-making16
Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation16
Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence15
Advisory Board and Contents15
Developing language in a digital world15
Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions15
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research15
Can sequencing explain the in–out effect?15
Thinking outside the ballot box15
Toward consumer acceptance of cultured meat15
The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought15
Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond15
How do natural environments shape adaptive cognition across the lifespan?14
Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information14
Brain states as wave-like motifs14
Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation14
How do we see style?14
Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations14
A hierarchical model of early brain functional network development13
The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation13
Social odor as a source of learning in human infants13
Children’s thinking about group-based social hierarchies13
Social disconnection and mortality: new evidence for old truths13
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics13
On a confusion about there being two types of consciousness12
Advisory Board and Contents12
The strength of weak integrated information theory12
Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science12
Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition12
Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing12
How does brain geometry influence human brain function?12
Choice overload and its consequences for animal decision-making12
Sleep and memory consolidation in insects12
Perceiving the shape and material properties of 3D surfaces12
A role for the claustrum in cognitive control12
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits12
Varieties of aphantasia11
Realizing the promise of AI: a new calling for cognitive science11
In search of boredom: beyond a functional account11
Moving intentions from brains to machines11
Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology11
Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness11
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes11
Social affordances, mirror neurons, and how to understand the social brain11
Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research11
Unfolding the evolution of human cognition11
Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration11
Zoom disrupts eye contact behaviour: problems and solutions11
Understanding memorability through artificial and artist intelligence11
Unveiling the benefits of multitasking in disentangled representation formation11
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