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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs290
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Ritalin as a causal perturbation265
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships250
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions223
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils179
Brain leakage exposes covert cognitive computations in bodily movements178
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Anxiety involves altered planning165
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry144
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception144
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement139
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change137
What counts when heartbeats are counted121
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history121
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function121
Testing the unit of working memory manipulation117
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And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively113
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape112
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans112
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation109
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain109
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior103
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning101
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience100
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions97
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition96
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia96
Abstract task representations for inference and control94
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Simplifying social learning89
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Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex88
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Beyond discrete-choice options82
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Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory79
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention75
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus74
The ‘design features’ of language revisited73
How can we validate theory-derived indicators of consciousness in Artificial Intelligence?69
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination69
Intuitive theories of truth68
People think of women as one thing, men as many67
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Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect63
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging63
Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?62
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process62
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The cognitive side of communication in social insects58
A unifying taxonomy of dyadic emotional processes58
Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable58
The cognitive origins of geometry56
Hearing and cognition across the menopause transition56
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI55
The promise of eye-tracking in the detection of concealed memories55
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?54
Reconceptualizing cognitive listening53
Contextual inference in learning and memory53
Advisory Board and Contents52
Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?52
Culture and in-group favoritism in social decision-making52
Reward is enough for social learning52
Decoding cognition in real-time51
Beyond binding: specialization without segregation49
Does memory research have a realistic future?47
Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy46
Shape perception does not require dorsal stream processing46
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Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics45
Simulation-driven mentalizing facilitates projection and introjection45
Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health45
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What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case45
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control44
Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis43
Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience43
Plasticity–stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning42
Beyond cognitive deficits: how social class shapes social cognition41
Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy41
No free lunch with the binding problem40
Is working memory domain-general or domain-specific?40
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Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?40
The value of ecologically irrelevant animal cognition research39
New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming38
Memory updating and the structure of event representations38
When expert predictions fail38
How early beliefs about brilliance shape gender gaps38
Explaining semantic typology, forms and all37
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making37
Advisory Board and Contents37
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision37
Development and experience-dependence of multisensory spatial processing37
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Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture37
Language learning as ontogenetic adaptation36
The cognitive science of eyewitness memory36
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Cognitive scripts and narrative identity are shaped by structures of power35
The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences34
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics33
Default beliefs as a basis of social decision-making33
Comparing representations and computations in single neurons versus neural networks33
Awareness as the heart of working memory33
Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes33
Analogies for modeling belief dynamics33
Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing33
Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity32
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers32
Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater31
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Executive control fluctuations underlie behavioral variability in anthropoids31
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?31
Adversity-based identities drive social change30
Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes30
Toward understanding the neurophysiological basis of spontaneous thought29
Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence29
What is episodic memory and how do we use it?29
The topological space of subjective experience29
Better artificial intelligence does not mean better models of biology29
Can only meat machines be conscious?29
Empirical approaches to determining quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołęga et al. and Song29
Emotion may indirectly link rendering and social reasoning28
Toward embodied, ecological cognition with ambulatory virtual reality28
How variability shapes learning and generalization27
Refining the multimodality of semantic representations27
The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions27
Seeing social interactions27
Advisory Board and Contents27
Interactive repair and the foundations of language27
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories27
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Level of decision confidence shapes motor memory26
Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals26
Societies should not ignore their incel problem26
The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction25
Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news25
An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex25
Imagining the future self through thought experiments25
On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking24
How is helping behavior regulated in the brain?24
The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction24
Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions23
Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception23
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Why nature contact is good for us23
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State-dependent spatial maps for navigation23
Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition22
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Action observation network: domain-specific or domain-general?22
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Motor working memory21
Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.21
The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error20
Functional connectomics in depression: insights into therapies20
Reality check: how do we know what's real?20
Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence20
Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health20
Dynamic brain plasticity during the transition to motherhood20
Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior20
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making20
The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus20
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Learning with certainty in childhood19
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Sound amongst the din: primate strategies against noise19
Aphantasia as imagery blindsight19
Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories19
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