OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Neuroscience is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	27
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	25
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	17
Perceiving utilitarian gradients: Heart rate variability and self-regulatory effort in the moral dilemma task	15
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	12
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	12
The role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in social decision-making against high- and low-rank opponents: a transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) study	11
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	9
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	9
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	8
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	8
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	7
Neurophysiological mechanisms of perspective-taking: An MEG investigation of agency	7
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	6
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	6
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	6
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	6
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	5
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	5
Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	5
Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence	5
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	5
From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	5
Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	5
Impaired social perception from eyes and face visual cues: evidence from prefrontal cortex damage	5

Parent–child dyads with greater parenting stress exhibit less synchrony in posterior areas and more synchrony in frontal areas of the prefrontal cortex during shared play	5
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	5
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	5
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	4
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	4
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	4
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
Neural correlates of sex differences in communicative gestures and speech comprehension: A preliminary study	4