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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Contributions of working memory and inhibitory control to analogical reasoning in preschoolers: the mediating roles of vocabulary knowledge and visual perception	19
Visual images of disgusting creatures facilitated attentional orienting and delayed attentional disengagement	19
Are spatial terms rooted in geometry or force-dynamics? Yes	19
Online level-2 perspective taking for newly learnt symbols	17
Abstracts and authors of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Segmentation and Binding in Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2024)	12
Visual perception and linguistic abilities, not quantitative knowledge, count in geometric knowledge of kindergarten children	12
Domain embeddings for generating complex descriptions of concepts in Italian language	11
Route effects in city-based survey knowledge estimates	11
Interoceptive sensitivity and perception of others’ emotions: an investigation based on a two-stage model	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
SmartDetector: a valid and affordable AI-based markerless motion capture system for psychological experiments	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
Investigating the mediating role of executive function in the relationship between sleep disturbance and mind wandering	10
Visual working memory for natural scenes: challenges and opportunities	9
Analysis of the impact of different background colors in VR environments on risk preferences	9
Emotional text messages affect the early processing of emoticons depending on their emotional congruence: evidence from the N170 and EPN event related potentials	9
Could direct and generative retrieval be two flips of the same coin? A dual-task paradigm study	9
Decision-making regarding social situations in people with intellectual disability at different stages of the decision-making process	9
The effect of an embodied intervention on responsibility: put a load on one’s shoulder	9
Cognitive processes of binomial expressions across modalities: a study of EFL Arab learners	8
Testing the persuasiveness of conspiracy theories: a comparison of narrative and argumentative strategies	8
Training structure matters: effects of simultaneous versus separate gait-cognitive training on executive function and dual-task interference in chronic stroke	8
Impaired emotional multimodal integration in inhibition of return in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	7
Chronic exercise and neuropsychological function in healthy young adults: a randomised controlled trial investigating a running intervention	7

Enactment encoding promotes relative temporal order memory	7
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
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
The influence of emotional motivation on attentional control in individuals with depressive symptoms	6
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
Visuospatial or verbal–spatial codes? The different effect of two secondary tasks on the power–space associations during a semantic categorizing 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
Mental rotation, perspective taking, and performance profiling	5
Congruent audiovisual stimulation drives efficient guidance of attention by memory-irrelevant features	5
Towards neuroadaptive navigation assistance to reduce spatial de-skilling	5
Predictive structure building in language comprehension: a large sample study on incremental licensing and parallelism	5
The impact of perceived human and computer interaction on collaborative learning: insights from the Map Task	5
Effects of gender stereotype threat on motor performance, cognitive anxiety, and gaze behavior: highlighting the role of context	5
The impact of object affordance activation level on cognitive processing of tools	5
Affective distraction by emotional arousal during visual attention: a comparative study with young and older adults	5
Time-based event expectations at the different developmental stages	5
Information and meaning	4
In the blink of an eye: behavioural correlates of the confirmation bias effect	4
Executive and motor function in children with autism spectrum disorder	4
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
Task cue transparency shapes cognitive and visual demands in task preparation	4
Specificity effect in concrete/abstract semantic categorization task	4
Disgust as a basic, sexual, and moral emotion	4
The differential illusion memory for high-associated abstract concepts (DIM-HA) effect	4
COVID-19 stressor reduces risk taking: the role of trait interoception	4
Why are altruists insensitive to rising costs of sacrifice? An experimental study of the volunteer’s dilemma	4
An evolutionary account of impairment of self in cognitive disorders	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
APOE genotype, hippocampal volume, and cognitive reserve predict improvement by cognitive training in older adults without dementia: a randomized controlled trial	3
Object perception: four arguments from philosophy	3
Psychophysical dissection of temporal error monitoring	3
Neural activity and network analysis for understanding reasoning using the matrix reasoning task	3
Reading abilities in preterm children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
The role of exposure condition, awareness and item type in developing implicit and explicit knowledge of collocational rules	3
The influence of semantic alignment on the performance of addition and division operation: age-related differences	3
Attentional adjustment in priming tasks: control strategies depend on context	3
Development and validation of the multi-dimensional metamemory skills (MDMS) scale for students in an Indian sample	3
Gestures and pauses to help thought: hands, voice, and silence in the tourist guide’s speech	3
Sex differences in the relationship between autistic traits and face-change discrimination sensitivity in the general population: a psychophysical investigation	3
Inference generation in the context of expository texts and videos: A lexical decision task study	3
Relationship between self-reported sleep and cognitive function: a specification curve analysis	3
Steps forward to synthetic consciousness measurement	3
Effects of wearing a surgical face mask on cognitive functioning and mood states: a randomised controlled trial in young adults	3