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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	28
Perceiving utilitarian gradients: Heart rate variability and self-regulatory effort in the moral dilemma task	26
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	18
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	15
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	14
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	12
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	11
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	9
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	9
Neurophysiological mechanisms of perspective-taking: An MEG investigation of agency	8
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	7
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	7
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	7
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	7
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	6
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	6
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	6
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	6
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	6
Impaired social perception from eyes and face visual cues: evidence from prefrontal cortex damage	5
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	5
Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	5
Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli	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
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	5
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	4
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	4
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4