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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement190
Ritalin as a causal perturbation179
Anxiety involves altered planning177
Peer review: the case for neutral language165
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships136
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils136
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change129
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception128
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs127
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions123
How social media shapes polarization120
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history112
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry111
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function109
What counts when heartbeats are counted106
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Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience104
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain101
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And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively100
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape93
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation88
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation85
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia85
The computational challenge of social learning78
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition75
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior75
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions74
Abstract task representations for inference and control74
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning74
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Beyond discrete-choice options72
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex72
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Partisan bias in the identification of fake news65
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory64
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention63
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus62
Distortion of mental body representations61
Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’61
Simplifying social learning60
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination60
Advisory Board and Contents59
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Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging57
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading56
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?55
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable54
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?53
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories52
Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect51
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?51
Reward is enough for social learning50
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI50
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Contextual inference in learning and memory50
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Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy49
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience49
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition49
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?47
Decoding cognition in real-time46
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning46
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics45
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing45
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy45
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control43
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case43
Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age43
Does memory research have a realistic future?43
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The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research41
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When expert predictions fail40
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable40
Convergent developmental principles between Caenorhabditis elegans and human connectomes40
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making40
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing40
Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny40
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming39
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture39
Memory updating and the structure of event representations39
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?39
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Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision39
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'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety37
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making37
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics37
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks36
The cognitive science of technology36
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes36
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences36
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all36
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics36
Cultivating allyship through casual mentoring to promote diversity35
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power35
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity34
Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again34
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory34
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing33
How explanation guides belief change32
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Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song32
Generative adversarial networks unlock new methods for cognitive science32
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers32
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?32
Interactive repair and the foundations of language31
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence31
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids30
Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition30
The topological space of subjective experience30
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes29
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?28
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater28
Adversity-based identities drive social change28
Advisory Board and Contents27
Computational ethics27
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?27
Seeing social interactions27
How variability shapes learning and generalization27
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory26
The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions26
Territorial blueprint in the hippocampal system25
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking25
Leveraging cognitive science to foster children’s persistence25
When do sensitive periods emerge later in development?25
Imagining the future self through thought experiments24
An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex24
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction24
Societies should not ignore their incel problem24
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction24
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception24
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions24
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Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition23
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus22
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Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood22
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies22
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans21
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Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?21
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making21
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior21
Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence21
A computational neuroethology perspective on body and expression perception21
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Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
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Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories20
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Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?19
Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power19
Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells19
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise19
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain19
What kind of network is the brain?19
Reality check: how do we know what's real?19
Statistical learning in spelling and reading19
Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization19
Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning19
Beyond students: how teacher psychology shapes educational inequality18
Aphantasia as imagery blindsight18
Sense of purpose in life and healthier cognitive aging18
Intermediate science knowledge predicts overconfidence18
Closed-loop neuromodulation for studying spontaneous activity and causality18
Learning with certainty in childhood17
Implicit bias reflects systemic racism17
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition17
On second thoughts: changes of mind in decision-making17
Associative symmetry: a divide between humans and nonhumans?17
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist17
Tracking dynamic social impressions from multidimensional voice representation17
Unpacking the dynamic role of physical effort in shaping behavior16
Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence16
The process of gendering: gender as a verb16
A hierarchical model of early brain functional network development15
Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science15
The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation15
Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs15
Dual coding of knowledge in the human brain15
Toward consumer acceptance of cultured meat15
Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation14
Developing language in a digital world14
Less practice makes just as perfect14
Thinking outside the ballot box14
Social odor as a source of learning in human infants14
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics14
Social disconnection and mortality: new evidence for old truths14
Advisory Board and Contents14
Can sequencing explain the in–out effect?14
How do natural environments shape adaptive cognition across the lifespan?13
Brain states as wave-like motifs13
Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration13
The strength of weak integrated information theory13
Children’s thinking about group-based social hierarchies13
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A role for the claustrum in cognitive control13
Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information13
Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond13
In search of boredom: beyond a functional account13
The psychology of virality12
Realizing the promise of AI: a new calling for cognitive science12
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Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition12
Varieties of aphantasia12
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes12
How does brain geometry influence human brain function?12
Choice overload and its consequences for animal decision-making11
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Unveiling the benefits of multitasking in disentangled representation formation11
Studying large language models as compression algorithms for human culture11
Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness11
Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges11
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Zoom disrupts eye contact behaviour: problems and solutions11
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits11
Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing11
Perceiving the shape and material properties of 3D surfaces11
Understanding memorability through artificial and artist intelligence11
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Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’?11
Mind-wandering: mechanistic insights from lesion, tDCS, and iEEG10
Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology10
A goal-centric outlook on learning10
Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past10
Solving the causal inference problem10
Social affordances, mirror neurons, and how to understand the social brain10
How sharp is the compassion–sympathy distinction?10
A sensorimotor perspective on numerical cognition10
Unfolding the evolution of human cognition10
The elusiveness of context effects in decision making10
Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research10
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Apart, together: reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic10
Sensorimotor foundations of speech perception in infancy9
Interpreting mental state decoding with deep learning models9
Why metacognition matters in politically contested domains9
Minimal criteria for an impurity domain of morality9
Semantic tiles or hub-and-spokes?9
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