OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Neural mechanisms of adaptive change to stress and challenge: Introduction to the special section	117
Correction: Maximizing translational value in models of compulsive behavior: A commentary on Pickenhan et al. (2024)	105
Neural evidence of task efficacy affecting cognitive control in test-anxious individuals	47
When effort fuels risk: Cognitive exertion increases risk-taking for gains but reduces it for losses	34
Mindful minds: How group identity shapes brain and behavior in social decision-making	32
Role of left lateral prefrontal cortex in positive emotion regulation: Insights from dyslexia	28
Automatic and controlled attentional orienting toward emotional faces in patients with Parkinson’s disease	27
Uncertainty drives exploration of negative information across younger and older adults	27
Emotion detection unveiled: A cognitive–computational synthesis of physiological models, machine learning, and datasets	27
Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for studying cognitive control in depressed patients: A systematic review	26
Dopamine antagonist effects of the D2/D3 receptor partial agonist aripiprazole on effort-based choice tasks in male and female rats	20
Aperiodic neural activity during speech comprehension in aging: Insights into cognitive effort	20
Emotional salience but not valence impacts anterior cingulate cortex conflict processing	20
Evidence for lateralized functional connectivity patterns at rest related to the tendency of externalizing or internalizing anger	20
Amphetamine increases motivation of humans and mice as measured by breakpoint, but does not affect an Electroencephalographic biomarker	19
Electrophysiological evidence for the enhancement of gesture-speech integration by linguistic predictability during multimodal discourse comprehension	19
Subjective and neural reactivity during savoring and rumination	19
Correction: Changes in the level of unitization moderate the impact of unitization on associative memory and its underlying processing	19
Reward and punishment learning among people with a lifetime history of anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder	19
Differential online and offline effects of theta-tACS on memory encoding and retrieval	18
Examining working and episodic memory in young adults with anhedonia	18
Brain activity associated with emotion regulation predicts individual differences in working memory ability	18
Development in uncertain contexts: An ecologically informed approach to understanding decision-making during adolescence	18
A computational account of conflict processing during mental imagery	17
Investigating the neural and behavioral correlates of the stress-rumination link in healthy humans by modulating the left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex using Theta Burst Stimulation	17

Enhancing cognitive and motor performance through mental training: The interplay between temporal preparation, inhibition and autonomic arousal	17
Limited impacts of biogenetic messaging on neural correlates of cognitive control and beliefs about depression	17
Error monitoring and response inhibition in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study	16
Maximizing translational value in models of compulsive behavior: A commentary on Pickenhan et al. (2024)	16
How interoceptive sensibility moderates decision-making: an fMRI study of neuroforecasting mobile games engagement	16
Electrophysiological signature of interoceptive attention: a spectral and source localization analysis	15
Exploring individual differences in amygdala-mediated memory modulation	15
Examining the neural basis of unitization: A review	15
Introduction to the special issue on individual differences in memory modulation	15
Trait-related neural basis of attentional bias to emotions: a tDCS study	14
Mood modulations of emotional word processing: A predictive perspective view of EEG data	14
Neural response to vocal emotional intensity in youth	14
Exploration heuristics decrease during youth	14
The role of spatial processing in verbal serial order working memory	14
The neuroscience of social comparison and competition	14
Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions	13
The effects of shared, depression-specific, and anxiety-specific internalizing symptoms on negative and neutral episodic memories following post-learning sleep	13
Expecting the unexpected: a review of learning under uncertainty across development	13
Cortical dynamics are differentially associated with decision-making strategies in human wayfinding: An EEG study	13
Frontal alpha asymmetry during emotion regulation in adults with lifetime major depression	13
Pre-associative item encoding influences associative memory: Behavioral and ERP evidence	12
Examining effects of effort and reward magnitude on effort-cost decision-making in people with major depressive disorder	12
Pictures at an exhibition: A commentary on Benn & Robinson (2024)	12
The cognitive and motor determinants of the perception of effort	12
Mental control of uncertainty	12
Computational underpinnings of cognitive effortful performance in short timescales	12
Cognitive appraisal modulates Theta Burst Stimulation effects on stress-reactive rumination and affect	12
Measuring cognitive effort without difficulty	12
Concurrent expectation and experience-based metacontrol: EEG insights and the role of working memory capacity	11
Aberrant neural event segmentation during a continuous social narrative in trauma-exposed older adolescents and young adults	11
Pupillometric evidence for a temporal expectations-based account of persistence under temporal uncertainty	11
Differential neural processing of reward and self-relevance in a social gambling paradigm	11
Differential correlates of fear and anxiety in salience perception: A behavioral and ERP study with adolescents	11
Exploration vs. Exploitation in a Novel Complex Card Matching Task: Evidence from Pupillometry	11
Is the bad apple or the bad basket to be blamed? Neural substrate of self-interest and conformity motivation during the contagion of dishonesty	11
Temporal dynamics of effort discounting: The roles of cognitive load and depression	11
Moral conformity: Neurocognitive mechanisms of social influence in dyadic harmful decisions	10
Lateralization of self-control over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in decision-making: a systematic review and meta-analytic evidence from noninvasive brain stimulation	10
Rodent tests of depression and anxiety: Construct validity and translational relevance	10
The neurocognitive aspects of empathy and theory of mind in pragmatic language processing	10
Involvement of executive control in neural capacity related to working memory in aging: an ERP P300 study	10
The two sides of Phobos: Gray and white matter abnormalities in phobic individuals	10
The impact of threat of shock-induced anxiety on alerting, orienting, and executive function in women: an ERP study	10
Spontaneous activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supporting self-control mediates the relationship between future time perspective and procrastination	10
A transcranial magnetic stimulation study on the role of the right angular gyrus in orienting and reorienting of attention toward threat	10
Approach-avoidance conflict recruits lateral frontoparietal and cinguloinsular networks in a predator-prey game setting	9
Dissociable neural after-effects of cognitive and physical effort expenditure during reward evaluation	9
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	9
A cross-cultural comparison of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational drives for learning	9
Stress awareness and decision-making under uncertainty: Gender-specific effects of mild hypoxia in the Iowa Gambling Task	9

Electrophysiological correlates of cognitive reserve in healthy older adults at different cognitive states	9
The neurobiology of aesthetic chills: How bodily sensations shape emotional experiences	9
The impact of acute high-intensity activity on perceptual decision-making dynamics	9
When the interoceptive and conceptual clash: The case of oppositional phenomenal self-modelling in Tourette syndrome	8
Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error	8
Refugees welcome? Empathy attenuates effects of xenophobia on neuronal responses to in-group and out-group suffering	8
Reward magnitude-specific delay discounting differentiates mania versus depression risk	8
Sleep fails to depotentiate amygdala-reactivity to negative emotional stimuli in youth with elevated symptoms of anxiety	8
Lowered inter-stimulus discriminability hurts incremental contributions to learning	8
Do we enjoy what we sense and perceive? A dissociation between aesthetic appreciation and basic perception of environmental objects or events	8
Low emotional contagious behavior induces PTSD susceptibility in observers and is related to the regulation of oxytocin receptor in mice	8
When models matter: Environmental demand guides the arbitration between model-based and model-free control	8
Machine learning classification of active viewing of pain and non-pain images using EEG does not exceed chance in external validation samples	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
Author Correction: The influence of altruistic personality, interpersonal distance and social observation on prosocial behavior: An event-related potential (ERP) study	8
Mechanisms of adjustments to different types of uncertainty in the reward environment across mice and monkeys	8
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
Opening new vistas on obsessive-compulsive disorder with the observing response task	7
Affective valence does not reflect progress prediction errors in perceptual decisions	7
Parsing patterns of reward responsiveness: Initial evidence from latent profile analysis	7
Comparative analysis of early visual processes across presentation modalities: The event-related potential evoked by real-life, virtual reality, and planar objects	7
Investigating the role of contextual cues and interhemispheric inhibitory mechanisms in response-selective stopping: a TMS study	7
Integrating arousal and valence approaches to advance cognitive effort research	7
The psychophysiology of guilt in healthy adults	7
The influence of self-focused attention on emotional picture processing: An ERP study	7
Motivated attention and task relevance in the processing of cross-modally associated faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence	7
The effect of inter-letter spacing on the N170 during visual word recognition: An event-related potentials experiment	7
Continuous theta burst stimulation to the medial posterior cerebellum impairs reversal learning in healthy volunteers	7
Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits, and is reflected in pupil dilation during probabilistic learning	7
Theta oscillations vary with local response rate and are moderated by the dopamine-depleting agent, tetrabenazine, during effort-based behavior	7
Neural mechanisms of negative emotionality and cognitive control: The role of frontal midline theta	7
Inhibition and cognitive workload during deception about planned behavior: Investigating LPC, MFN, and PRP components	7
Facial emotion recognition in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: An exploratory study	7
The effect of working memory load on selective attention towards threatening faces in socially anxious individuals: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence	6
Hierarchical structural–functional coupling reorganization after acute sleep deprivation: Links to spatial working memory and lateralization	6
Brain representations of space and time in episodic memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Anhedonia relates to reduced striatal reward anticipation in depression but not in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: A transdiagnostic study	6
Correction: The two sides of Phobos: Gray and white matter abnormalities in phobic individuals	6
Hierarchical inference as a source of human biases	6
Neural electrophysiological correlates of detection and identification awareness	6
Brain stimulation over dorsomedial prefrontal cortex modulates effort-based decision making	6
Distortion of overlapping memories relates to arousal and anxiety	6
Anxiety facilitates disengagement when switching from negative-valenced stimuli: Mediating role of attentional control	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
Effects of taVNS on physiological responses and cognitive performance during a mental stressor	6
Moral conviction interacts with metacognitive ability in modulating neural activity during sociopolitical decision-making	6