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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Anxiety involves altered planning168
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement167
Ritalin as a causal perturbation158
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships156
Peer review: the case for neutral language129
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history122
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils121
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception120
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change114
What counts when heartbeats are counted113
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions109
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs106
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function104
How social media shapes polarization104
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Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience99
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain97
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia94
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Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape94
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation93
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior90
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition86
Abstract task representations for inference and control85
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation82
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning79
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The computational challenge of social learning71
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex71
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions71
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Simplifying social learning70
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Proving Causality in Hyperscanning: Multibrain Stimulation and Other Approaches: Response to Moreau and Dumas68
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination67
Distortion of mental body representations66
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory63
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention61
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus60
Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’60
From Observed Action Identity to Social Affordances59
Beyond discrete-choice options58
Partisan bias in the identification of fake news57
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Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging56
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?55
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?54
Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect54
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories53
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?51
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable50
The Perception of Relations50
Contextual inference in learning and memory50
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI50
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading48
Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy48
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Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience47
Does memory research have a realistic future?47
Decoding cognition in real-time46
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition44
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning44
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing44
Neuromatch Academy: Teaching Computational Neuroscience with Global Accessibility44
The Psychology of (In)Effective Altruism43
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?43
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics43
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control43
Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age43
Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny42
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New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming40
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Memory updating and the structure of event representations40
Autistic Cognition: Charting Routes to Anxiety40
When expert predictions fail40
The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable38
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research38
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture38
Convergent developmental principles between Caenorhabditis elegans and human connectomes38
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision38
What Is the Readiness Potential?37
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Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing37
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making37
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?37
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory36
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'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety36
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Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making36
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics35
Cultivating allyship through casual mentoring to promote diversity35
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks34
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics34
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes34
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all34
Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power34
The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation33
Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again32
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity32
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences32
The cognitive science of technology32
How explanation guides belief change32
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing32
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers32
Adversity-based identities drive social change31
Changing Perceptions around Nontraditional Career Trajectories in Psychological Science31
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Extreme environments for understanding brain and cognition31
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song31
Generative adversarial networks unlock new methods for cognitive science30
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?28
Computational ethics28
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes28
Capturing the Effects of Domestication on Vocal Learning Complexity28
The topological space of subjective experience28
Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids28
How variability shapes learning and generalization27
Seeing social interactions27
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence27
Interactive repair and the foundations of language27
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?26
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How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?26
When do sensitive periods emerge later in development?25
The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions25
Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory25
Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution24
Leveraging cognitive science to foster children’s persistence24
Imagining the future self through thought experiments24
Territorial blueprint in the hippocampal system24
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking23
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction23
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction23
Societies should not ignore their incel problem23
Epistemic Autonomy: Self-supervised Learning in the Mammalian Hippocampus23
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception23
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions23
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An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex22
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Two ‘what’ pathways for action and object recognition22
The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans21
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Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?21
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Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior21
Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood21
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Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence20
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories20
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
A computational neuroethology perspective on body and expression perception20
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Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells19
Learning with certainty in childhood19
What kind of network is the brain?19
Reality check: how do we know what's real?19
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist19
Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise19
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Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?19
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