Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 19. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Advisory Board and Contents201
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Anxiety involves altered planning192
Ritalin as a causal perturbation187
What counts when heartbeats are counted167
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry143
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships140
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils133
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change130
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs130
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception130
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions121
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history114
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement114
How social media shapes polarization113
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function111
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Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience109
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain103
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior101
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning97
Abstract task representations for inference and control90
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Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition86
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively82
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation81
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape81
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation79
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions77
The computational challenge of social learning77
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia76
Advisory Board and Contents75
Beyond discrete-choice options74
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Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex74
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Simplifying social learning66
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention66
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination66
Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’64
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus63
Distortion of mental body representations63
Partisan bias in the identification of fake news63
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory63
Advisory Board and Contents62
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Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging60
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?57
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What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?55
Reward is enough for social learning54
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?54
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories53
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable53
Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect53
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process52
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI52
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading52
Contextual inference in learning and memory52
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Advisory Board and Contents50
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning50
Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy50
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?48
Decoding cognition in real-time48
Does memory research have a realistic future?46
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing46
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy46
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition45
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics44
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case44
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control43
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Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age42
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience42
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Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision41
Convergent developmental principles between Caenorhabditis elegans and human connectomes41
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A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making41
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When expert predictions fail40
Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny40
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?40
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable40
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture40
Memory updating and the structure of event representations39
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research38
How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps37
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing37
Advisory Board and Contents37
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming37
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Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers36
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Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing36
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences35
'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety35
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making35
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all34
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes34
Cultivating allyship through casual mentoring to promote diversity33
Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again33
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks33
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power33
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics33
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics33
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory33
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity32
The cognitive science of technology32
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song31
How explanation guides belief change31
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Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?30
Generative adversarial networks unlock new methods for cognitive science30
Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition30
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids29
The topological space of subjective experience28
Adversity-based identities drive social change28
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes28
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence27
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater27
Interactive repair and the foundations of language27
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?27
Seeing social interactions26
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?26
Computational ethics26
How variability shapes learning and generalization26
The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions25
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory25
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An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex24
Territorial blueprint in the hippocampal system24
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction24
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking24
Imagining the future self through thought experiments24
When do sensitive periods emerge later in development?24
Societies should not ignore their incel problem23
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception23
Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news23
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The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction22
Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition22
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Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions22
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Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood21
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus21
Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?21
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Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence21
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making20
A computational neuroethology perspective on body and expression perception20
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories19
Reality check: how do we know what's real?19
What kind of network is the brain?19
Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?19
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Statistical learning in spelling and reading19
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior19
Advisory Board and Contents19
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise19
Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning19
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