OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to enhance memory control: divergent effects on social and non-social memories	70
Authenticity is More Than Self-Enhancement: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence	49
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	47
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	45
Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study	33
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women	31
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	31
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	28
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	27
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	27
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	26
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	26
Are older adults more deceived by false advertising? Evidence from intra- and inter-brain connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during face-to-face deceptive sales	26
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions	22
Mapping neural signatures of face processing in young children: an OPM-MEG study	21
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources	21
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	20
Neural responses to social touch with different emotional valences: an fNIRS study	20
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry	20
Human Cerebellum and Social Navigation: Cerebello-Cerebral Connectivity using Dynamic Causal Modeling	20
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	19
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing	17
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors	16
Genes, culture, and neural sensitivity to norm violations: a DRD4 × culture interaction study	16
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study	16

Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas	16
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: neural and behavioral evidence	16
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity	15
The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis	15
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	15
The speed of race	15
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	15
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions	15
The Impact of Teachers' Autonomy Support on Students' Academic Performance from the Perspective of Hyperscanning: the Mediating Role of Autonomy Need Satisfaction	14
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion	14
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood	14
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being	14
Neural correlates of embodied and vibratory mechanisms associated with emotional prosody production	13
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness	13
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge	13
Time-Varying Brain State Dynamics in Trait Impulsivity and Anxiety: An HSMM Analysis of Resting-State fMRI	13
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall	13
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth	13
The impact of affective congruence on charitable giving	12
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake	12
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations	12
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing	12
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear	12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+	12
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan	11
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders	11
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better	11
Aperiodic activity masks sensorimotor mu suppression during human action observation	11
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners	11
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life	10
Localized task-invariant emotional valence encoding revealed by intracranial recordings	10
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study	10
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood	10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults	10
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem	10
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception	10
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study	10
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin	10
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety	10
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse	10
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study	10
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	9
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model	9
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	9
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis	9
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	9
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	9
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults	9
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	9
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	8

Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	8
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations	8
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	8
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli	8
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	8
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward	8
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	7
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study	7
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages	7
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals	7
Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication	7
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition	7
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	7
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	7
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli	7
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care	7
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation	6
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation versus Competition in a Tennis Game	6
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions	6
Relationship Match: the neural underpinnings of social feedback in romantic couples	6
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future	6
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies	6
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner	6
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences	6
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system	6
Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: A frequency-tagging EEG study	6
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements	6
Altruistic acting caused by a touching hand: neural underpinnings of the Midas touch effect	6
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders	6