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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception248
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Ritalin as a causal perturbation207
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs184
What counts when heartbeats are counted171
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships156
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions148
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry139
Anxiety involves altered planning137
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils130
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history124
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement123
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change121
Brain leakage exposes covert cognitive computations in bodily movements121
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function120
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans119
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions101
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively99
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Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape98
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience98
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain97
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation96
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior95
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition94
Abstract task representations for inference and control87
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation83
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia82
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning82
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Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex79
Beyond discrete-choice options77
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Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination71
Distortion of mental body representations70
Simplifying social learning70
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus69
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory68
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention68
The ‘design features’ of language revisited68
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Reward is enough for social learning62
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Awake reactivation is not a uniform process61
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?61
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Reconceptualizing cognitive listening59
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories58
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging58
Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect57
The cognitive side of communication in social insects57
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable56
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?53
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI53
Contextual inference in learning and memory52
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Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?50
Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis49
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience48
Decoding cognition in real-time48
Simulation-driven mentalizing facilitates projection and introjection48
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case48
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Does memory research have a realistic future?46
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning46
Culture and in-group favoritism in social decision-making46
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Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy46
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing46
Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health46
Beyond binding: specialization without segregation46
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control45
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics45
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition45
Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy45
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Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?44
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How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps42
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming42
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research41
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable40
Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny40
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making38
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision38
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?38
Memory updating and the structure of event representations38
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing38
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture38
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When expert predictions fail37
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks37
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Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes36
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Explaining semantic typology, forms and all36
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing35
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics35
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers35
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory35
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power34
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences34
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics34
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity33
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making33
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song33
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Adversity-based identities drive social change32
The topological space of subjective experience31
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes31
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence31
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?31
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids30
Can only meat machines be conscious?30
Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition29
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?29
Toward understanding the neurophysiological basis of spontaneous thought29
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater29
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories29
Computational ethics28
Interactive repair and the foundations of language28
Better artificial intelligence does not mean better models of biology28
How variability shapes learning and generalization28
The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions27
Seeing social interactions27
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?27
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions27
Refining the multimodality of semantic representations26
Why nature contact is good for us26
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception26
Societies should not ignore their incel problem26
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Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news25
When do sensitive periods emerge later in development?25
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction25
Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals24
An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex24
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory24
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking24
Imagining the future self through thought experiments23
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction23
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making22
Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood22
Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition22
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Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans20
Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?20
Motor working memory20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior20
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise20
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus20
Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.20
Reality check: how do we know what's real?20
Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning19
Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization19
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories19
Closed-loop neuromodulation for studying spontaneous activity and causality19
Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain19
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Why were the textbooks wrong about brain plasticity?18
Associative symmetry: a divide between humans and nonhumans?18
Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells18
Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power18
What kind of network is the brain?18
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Aphantasia as imagery blindsight17
Learning with certainty in childhood17
Statistical learning in spelling and reading17
Searching for the Goldilocks zone of climate anxiety17
On second thoughts: changes of mind in decision-making17
Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation17
Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?17
Bumblebees as a powerful model for studying cognitive ecology17
Evolution of cortical neurons supporting human cognition17
Intermediate science knowledge predicts overconfidence17
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research16
Unpacking the dynamic role of physical effort in shaping behavior16
Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence16
Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science16
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist16
Emotion and prediction errors: which ingredients matter?15
The process of gendering: gender as a verb15
Toward consumer acceptance of cultured meat15
Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs15
Social odor as a source of learning in human infants15
Tracking dynamic social impressions from multidimensional voice representation15
Developing language in a digital world15
Children’s thinking about group-based social hierarchies14
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Can sequencing explain the in–out effect?14
Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation14
Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond14
Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations14
How do natural environments shape adaptive cognition across the lifespan?14
Brain states as wave-like motifs14
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics14
Thinking outside the ballot box14
How do we see style?14
Social disconnection and mortality: new evidence for old truths14
The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation14
Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information13
The strength of weak integrated information theory13
A hierarchical model of early brain functional network development13
How does brain geometry influence human brain function?12
Orbitofrontal-sensory cortical interactions in learning and adaptive decision-making12
Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges12
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Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits12
Realizing the promise of AI: a new calling for cognitive science12
Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing12
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes12
The psychology of virality11
In search of boredom: beyond a functional account11
A role for the claustrum in cognitive control11
Studying large language models as compression algorithms for human culture11
On a confusion about there being two types of consciousness11
Choice overload and its consequences for animal decision-making11
Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration11
Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’?11
Sleep and memory consolidation in insects11
Perceiving the shape and material properties of 3D surfaces11
Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition11
Varieties of aphantasia11
Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness11
Social affordances, mirror neurons, and how to understand the social brain10
Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research10
How sharp is the compassion–sympathy distinction?10
Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past10
Zoom disrupts eye contact behaviour: problems and solutions10
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Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology10
Understanding memorability through artificial and artist intelligence10
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Mind-wandering: mechanistic insights from lesion, tDCS, and iEEG10
Unfolding the evolution of human cognition10
A sensorimotor perspective on numerical cognition10
A goal-centric outlook on learning10
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