OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Processing is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Visual images of disgusting creatures facilitated attentional orienting and delayed attentional disengagement	22
Are spatial terms rooted in geometry or force-dynamics? Yes	20
Online level-2 perspective taking for newly learnt symbols	18
Abstracts and authors of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Segmentation and Binding in Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2024)	14
Domain embeddings for generating complex descriptions of concepts in Italian language	12
Contributions of working memory and inhibitory control to analogical reasoning in preschoolers: the mediating roles of vocabulary knowledge and visual perception	12
Route effects in city-based survey knowledge estimates	12
Investigating the mediating role of executive function in the relationship between sleep disturbance and mind wandering	12
Visual perception and linguistic abilities, not quantitative knowledge, count in geometric knowledge of kindergarten children	12
SmartDetector: a valid and affordable AI-based markerless motion capture system for psychological experiments	11
Interoceptive sensitivity and perception of others’ emotions: an investigation based on a two-stage model	10
A feasibility pilot study comparing tablets and smartphones for an app-based speed training program in older people: an open-label, randomized controlled PROBE trial	10
The relationship between working memory updating components and reading comprehension	10
Correction: Visuospatial or verbal–spatial codes? The different effect of two secondary tasks on the power–space associations during a semantic categorizing task	10
Analysis of the impact of different background colors in VR environments on risk preferences	9
Chronic exercise and neuropsychological function in healthy young adults: a randomised controlled trial investigating a running intervention	9
The effect of an embodied intervention on responsibility: put a load on one’s shoulder	9
Testing the persuasiveness of conspiracy theories: a comparison of narrative and argumentative strategies	9
Visual working memory for natural scenes: challenges and opportunities	8
Decision-making regarding social situations in people with intellectual disability at different stages of the decision-making process	8
Emotional text messages affect the early processing of emoticons depending on their emotional congruence: evidence from the N170 and EPN event related potentials	8
Enactment encoding promotes relative temporal order memory	7
Cognitive processes of binomial expressions across modalities: a study of EFL Arab learners	7
Impaired emotional multimodal integration in inhibition of return in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	7
Training structure matters: effects of simultaneous versus separate gait-cognitive training on executive function and dual-task interference in chronic stroke	7

The impact of object affordance activation level on cognitive processing of tools	6
Discrete, recurrent, and scalable patterns in non-operant judgement underlie affective picture ratings	6
Stability of individual differences in executive functions in kindergarten children – a microgenetic study	6
Spontaneous perceptual alternations and higher-order cognitive processes: an exploratory study	6
Spatial memory and frames of reference: How deeply do we rely on the body and the environment?	6
Shaping attitudes toward body-related cues via evaluative conditioning: investigating the roles of social comparison and self-esteem	6
The influence of emotional motivation on attentional control in individuals with depressive symptoms	5
Visuospatial or verbal–spatial codes? The different effect of two secondary tasks on the power–space associations during a semantic categorizing task	5
Time-based event expectations at the different developmental stages	5
Effects of gender stereotype threat on motor performance, cognitive anxiety, and gaze behavior: highlighting the role of context	5
The impact of perceived human and computer interaction on collaborative learning: insights from the Map Task	5
Highly logical and non-emotional decisions in both risky and social contexts: understanding decision making in autism spectrum disorder through computational modeling	5
Contribution of orthographic knowledge to reading and spelling in Bosnian highly transparent orthography	5
The generalizability issue in studying inflectional processing in real time: the potential effects of suffixal characteristics	5
Congruent audiovisual stimulation drives efficient guidance of attention by memory-irrelevant features	5
Mental rotation, perspective taking, and performance profiling	5
Tracing affordances: mixed-methods review on techniques to study affordances in virtual reality environments	4
Long-term memory for spatial frequency: a non-replication	4
Neural activity and network analysis for understanding reasoning using the matrix reasoning task	4
Affective distraction by emotional arousal during visual attention: a comparative study with young and older adults	4
COVID-19 stressor reduces risk taking: the role of trait interoception	4
Information and meaning	4
The differential illusion memory for high-associated abstract concepts (DIM-HA) effect	4
Specificity effect in concrete/abstract semantic categorization task	4
Predictive structure building in language comprehension: a large sample study on incremental licensing and parallelism	4
Executive and motor function in children with autism spectrum disorder	4
Why are altruists insensitive to rising costs of sacrifice? An experimental study of the volunteer’s dilemma	4
In the blink of an eye: behavioural correlates of the confirmation bias effect	4
Disgust as a basic, sexual, and moral emotion	4
Towards neuroadaptive navigation assistance to reduce spatial de-skilling	4
An evolutionary account of impairment of self in cognitive disorders	3
Relationship between self-reported sleep and cognitive function: a specification curve analysis	3
Sex differences in the relationship between autistic traits and face-change discrimination sensitivity in the general population: a psychophysical investigation	3
APOE genotype, hippocampal volume, and cognitive reserve predict improvement by cognitive training in older adults without dementia: a randomized controlled trial	3
Psychophysical dissection of temporal error monitoring	3
Stop affordance task: a measure of the motor interference effect	3
The influence of semantic alignment on the performance of addition and division operation: age-related differences	3
Feature interaction in metaphor aptness: the impact of topic-and-vehicle applicable features and semantic distances	3
The role of exposure condition, awareness and item type in developing implicit and explicit knowledge of collocational rules	3
Reading abilities in preterm children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Gestures and pauses to help thought: hands, voice, and silence in the tourist guide’s speech	3
The STEARC effect revisited: does time shape spatial attention and memory?	3
Effects of wearing a surgical face mask on cognitive functioning and mood states: a randomised controlled trial in young adults	3
Steps forward to synthetic consciousness measurement	3
Object perception: four arguments from philosophy	3
Inference generation in the context of expository texts and videos: A lexical decision task study	3
Effects of banner ad type, web content type and theme consistency on banner blindness: an eye movement study	3
The hyper-systemizing hypothesis: how the tendency to systemize influences conspiracy beliefs and belief inflexibility in clinical and general populations	3
Task cue transparency shapes cognitive and visual demands in task preparation	3
Development and validation of the multi-dimensional metamemory skills (MDMS) scale for students in an Indian sample	3

Attentional adjustment in priming tasks: control strategies depend on context	3
The impact of facial expressions on space- and object-based attention by gaze cues	3