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Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Neural mechanisms of adaptive change to stress and challenge: Introduction to the special section	90
Automatic and controlled attentional orienting toward emotional faces in patients with Parkinson’s disease	77
Orbitofrontal and Cingulate Thickness Asymmetry Associated with Depressive Symptom Dimensions	39
Unveiling the neural underpinnings of optimism: a systematic review	36
Correction: Maximizing translational value in models of compulsive behavior: A commentary on Pickenhan et al. (2024)	35
Decreased preparatory activation and inattention to cues suggest lower activation of proactive cognitive control among high procrastinating students	33
Subjective and neural reactivity during savoring and rumination	26
Electrophysiological evidence for the enhancement of gesture-speech integration by linguistic predictability during multimodal discourse comprehension	24
Amphetamine increases motivation of humans and mice as measured by breakpoint, but does not affect an Electroencephalographic biomarker	24
Uncertainty drives exploration of negative information across younger and older adults	24
The PRO model accounts for the anterior cingulate cortex role in risky decision-making and monitoring	21
Correction: Changes in the level of unitization moderate the impact of unitization on associative memory and its underlying processing	20
Development in uncertain contexts: An ecologically informed approach to understanding decision-making during adolescence	19
Evidence for lateralized functional connectivity patterns at rest related to the tendency of externalizing or internalizing anger	18
Brain activity associated with emotion regulation predicts individual differences in working memory ability	17
Differential online and offline effects of theta-tACS on memory encoding and retrieval	17
Developmental differences in processing the valence and magnitude of incentive cues: Mid-adolescents are more sensitive to potential gains than early- or late-adolescents	17
Emotional salience but not valence impacts anterior cingulate cortex conflict processing	16
Meta-control: From psychology to computational neuroscience	15
The effect of obstructed action efficacy on reward-based decision-making in healthy adolescents: a novel functional MRI task to assay frustration	14
Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for studying cognitive control in depressed patients: A systematic review	14
Trait-related neural basis of attentional bias to emotions: a tDCS study	13
The role of spatial processing in verbal serial order working memory	13
Examining the neural basis of unitization: A review	13
Error monitoring and response inhibition in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study	13

No trait anxiety influences on early and late differential neuronal responses to aversively conditioned faces across three different tasks	13
A computational account of conflict processing during mental imagery	13
Limited impacts of biogenetic messaging on neural correlates of cognitive control and beliefs about depression	13
Introduction to the special issue on individual differences in memory modulation	12
How interoceptive sensibility moderates decision-making: an fMRI study of neuroforecasting mobile games engagement	12
Real-Life Self-Control is Predicted by Parietal Activity During Preference Decision Making: A Brain Decoding Analysis	11
Electrophysiological signature of interoceptive attention: a spectral and source localization analysis	11
Exploration heuristics decrease during youth	11
Exploring individual differences in amygdala-mediated memory modulation	11
Enhancing cognitive and motor performance through mental training: The interplay between temporal preparation, inhibition and autonomic arousal	11
The neuroscience of social comparison and competition	11
Maximizing translational value in models of compulsive behavior: A commentary on Pickenhan et al. (2024)	11
Aberrant neural event segmentation during a continuous social narrative in trauma-exposed older adolescents and young adults	10
Cognitive and emotional regulation processes of spontaneous facial self-touch are activated in the first milliseconds of touch: Replication of previous EEG findings and further insights	10
Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions	10
Expecting the unexpected: a review of learning under uncertainty across development	10
Differential correlates of fear and anxiety in salience perception: A behavioral and ERP study with adolescents	10
Pictures at an exhibition: A commentary on Benn & Robinson (2024)	10
The effects of shared, depression-specific, and anxiety-specific internalizing symptoms on negative and neutral episodic memories following post-learning sleep	10
Frontal alpha asymmetry during emotion regulation in adults with lifetime major depression	10
Implicit emotion regulation improves arithmetic performance: An ERP study	10
Concurrent expectation and experience-based metacontrol: EEG insights and the role of working memory capacity	10
Differential neural processing of reward and self-relevance in a social gambling paradigm	10
Neural response to vocal emotional intensity in youth	10
Pre-associative item encoding influences associative memory: Behavioral and ERP evidence	10
Pupillometric evidence for a temporal expectations-based account of persistence under temporal uncertainty	10
Measuring cognitive effort without difficulty	9
Neurophysiological Responses to Interpersonal Emotional Images: Associations with Symptoms of Depression and Social Anxiety	9
Involvement of executive control in neural capacity related to working memory in aging: an ERP P300 study	9
Lowered inter-stimulus discriminability hurts incremental contributions to learning	9
A transcranial magnetic stimulation study on the role of the right angular gyrus in orienting and reorienting of attention toward threat	9
Dissociable neural after-effects of cognitive and physical effort expenditure during reward evaluation	9
Rodent tests of depression and anxiety: Construct validity and translational relevance	9
The two sides of Phobos: Gray and white matter abnormalities in phobic individuals	9
Mental control of uncertainty	9
The Modulation of Cardiac Vagal Tone on Attentional Orienting of Fair-Related Faces: Low HRV is Associated with Faster Attentional Engagement to Fair-Relevant Stimuli	9
A cross-cultural comparison of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational drives for learning	9
Correction to: Spatial attention impairments are characterized by specific electroencephalographic correlates and partially mediate the association between early life stress and anxiety	9
Chronic academic stress facilitates response inhibition: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence	9
Approach-avoidance conflict recruits lateral frontoparietal and cinguloinsular networks in a predator-prey game setting	9
Lateralization of self-control over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in decision-making: a systematic review and meta-analytic evidence from noninvasive brain stimulation	9
The neurobiology of aesthetic chills: How bodily sensations shape emotional experiences	9
The impact of threat of shock-induced anxiety on alerting, orienting, and executive function in women: an ERP study	9
Do we enjoy what we sense and perceive? A dissociation between aesthetic appreciation and basic perception of environmental objects or events	8
You are excusable! Neural correlates of economic neediness on empathic concern and fairness perception	8
Decision-making under ambiguity and risk and executive functions in Parkinson’s disease patients: A scoping review of the studies investigating the Iowa Gambling Task and the Game of Dice	8
Audio and visual speech emotion activate the left pre-supplementary motor area	8
More than a feeling: physiological measures of affect index the integration of effort costs and rewards during anticipatory effort evaluation	8
Weaker situations: Uncertainty reveals individual differences in learning: Implications for PTSD	8
When the interoceptive and conceptual clash: The case of oppositional phenomenal self-modelling in Tourette syndrome	8

Mechanisms of adjustments to different types of uncertainty in the reward environment across mice and monkeys	8
Sleep fails to depotentiate amygdala-reactivity to negative emotional stimuli in youth with elevated symptoms of anxiety	8
Limitations of cognitive control on emotional distraction – Congruency in the Color Stroop task does not modulate the Emotional Stroop effect	7
Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits, and is reflected in pupil dilation during probabilistic learning	7
Investigating the role of contextual cues and interhemispheric inhibitory mechanisms in response-selective stopping: a TMS study	7
Maternal symptoms of depression and anxiety during the postpartum period moderate infants’ neural response to emotional faces of their mother and of female strangers	7
Low emotional contagious behavior induces PTSD susceptibility in observers and is related to the regulation of oxytocin receptor in mice	7
Facial emotion recognition in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: An exploratory study	7
Reward magnitude-specific delay discounting differentiates mania versus depression risk	7
Parsing patterns of reward responsiveness: Initial evidence from latent profile analysis	7
Continuous theta burst stimulation to the medial posterior cerebellum impairs reversal learning in healthy volunteers	7
Equivalent own name bias in autism: An EEG study of the Attentional Blink	7
The psychophysiology of guilt in healthy adults	7
Machine learning classification of active viewing of pain and non-pain images using EEG does not exceed chance in external validation samples	7
Author Correction: The influence of altruistic personality, interpersonal distance and social observation on prosocial behavior: An event-related potential (ERP) study	7
Motivated attention and task relevance in the processing of cross-modally associated faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence	7
Affective valence does not reflect progress prediction errors in perceptual decisions	7
The influence of self-focused attention on emotional picture processing: An ERP study	7
Comparative analysis of early visual processes across presentation modalities: The event-related potential evoked by real-life, virtual reality, and planar objects	7
Trait dialectical thinking is associated with the strength of functional coupling between the dACC and the default mode network	7
The effect of inter-letter spacing on the N170 during visual word recognition: An event-related potentials experiment	7
Brain representations of space and time in episodic memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Moral conviction interacts with metacognitive ability in modulating neural activity during sociopolitical decision-making	6
Hierarchical inference as a source of human biases	6
Correction: The two sides of Phobos: Gray and white matter abnormalities in phobic individuals	6
Brain stimulation over dorsomedial prefrontal cortex modulates effort-based decision making	6
Distortion of overlapping memories relates to arousal and anxiety	6
Anhedonia relates to reduced striatal reward anticipation in depression but not in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: A transdiagnostic study	6
Adolescent novelty seeking is associated with greater ventral striatal and prefrontal brain response during evaluation of risk and reward	6
This is not who you are: The posterior cerebellum and stereotype-inconsistent action sequences	6
Anxiety and hippocampal neuronal activity: Relationship and potential mechanisms	6
Correction to: Trait dialectical thinking is associated with the strength of functional coupling between the dACC and the default mode network	6
Disentangling emotional signals in the brain: an ALE meta-analysis of vocal affect perception	6
Correction: Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions	6
Attentional Inhibition Ability Predicts Neural Representation During Challenging Auditory Streaming	6
Toward the unity of pathological and exertional fatigue: A predictive processing model	6
Neural electrophysiological correlates of detection and identification awareness	6
Cue overlap supports preretrieval selection in episodic memory: ERP evidence	6
Opening new vistas on obsessive-compulsive disorder with the observing response task	6