OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The basal ganglia and the cerebellum in human emotion	99
Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices	71
The posterior crus II cerebellum is specialized for social mentalizing and emotional self-experiences: a meta-analysis	69
Inter-brain synchrony in teams predicts collective performance	68
Tools of the Trade Multivoxel pattern analysis in fMRI: a practical introduction for social and affective neuroscientists	61
Neural synchrony in mother–child conversation: Exploring the role of conversation patterns	58
Shared and distinct functional networks for empathy and pain processing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of fMRI studies	57
Neurostructural correlates of hope: dispositional hope mediates the impact of the SMA gray matter volume on subjective well-being in late adolescence	54
Tools of the trade: estimating time-varying connectivity patterns from fMRI data	52
Brain and motor synchrony in children and adolescents with ASD—a fNIRS hyperscanning study	50
Attentional conditions differentially affect early, intermediate and late neural responses to fearful and neutral faces	44
Beyond synchrony: the capacity of fMRI hyperscanning for the study of human social interaction	44
Dual brain stimulation enhances interpersonal learning through spontaneous movement synchrony	44
Touch and social support influence interpersonal synchrony and pain	43
HyPyP: a Hyperscanning Python Pipeline for inter-brain connectivity analysis	42
Interpersonal similarity of autistic traits predicts friendship quality	35
Is obesity related to enhanced neural reactivity to visual food cues? A review and meta-analysis	33
Social value orientation modulates fairness processing during social decision-making: evidence from behavior and brain potentials	33
Childhood violence exposure and social deprivation are linked to adolescent threat and reward neural function	31
Shifting prosocial intuitions: neurocognitive evidence for a value-based account of group-based cooperation	30
The role of social isolation in opioid addiction	30
A hierarchical model for interpersonal verbal communication	28
Social network analysis for social neuroscientists	27
Childhood trauma, brain structure and emotion recognition in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants	26
The integration of social and neural synchrony: a case for ecologically valid research using MEG neuroimaging	24

The neural networks underlying reappraisal of empathy for pain	23
Sex differences in the human reward system: convergent behavioral, autonomic and neural evidence	23
Neural response to monetary and social feedback demonstrates differential associations with depression and social anxiety	23
How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants	23
Effects of HF-rTMS over the left and right DLPFC on proactive and reactive cognitive control	22
Neurobiological models of emotion regulation: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of acceptance as an emotion regulation strategy	22
The role of right temporoparietal junction in processing social prediction error across relationship contexts	22
Transient brain networks underlying interpersonal strategies during synchronized action	21
Patients with anxiety disorders rely on bilateral dlPFC activation during verbal working memory	20
Eye contact during joint attention with a humanoid robot modulates oscillatory brain activity	19
Seven computations of the social brain	19
Beyond the average brain: individual differences in social brain development are associated with friendship quality	18
Neural evidence for cognitive reappraisal as a strategy to alleviate the effects of math anxiety	18
Affective brain patterns as multivariate neural correlates of cardiovascular disease risk	18
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience	18
Reduced feelings of regret and enhanced fronto-striatal connectivity in elders with long-term Tai Chi experience	18
Being ‘in sync’—is interactional synchrony the key to understanding the social brain?	17
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety	17
Lasting effects of cognitive emotion regulation: neural correlates of reinterpretation and distancing	17
Conducting decoded neurofeedback studies	17
The neural underpinnings of intergroup social cognition: an fMRI meta-analysis	16
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents	16
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning	16
Neural mechanisms of self-affirmation’s stress buffering effects	16
Neural representation of the parent–child attachment from infancy to adulthood	15
Neural processes for live pro-social dialogue between dyads with socioeconomic disparity	15
Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study	15
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits	15
Emotional news affects social judgments independent of perceived media credibility	15
Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence	15
Newborn white matter microstructure moderates the association between maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and infant negative reactivity	15
Inter-brain amplitude correlation differentiates cooperation from competition in a motion-sensing sports game	15
The relationship between childhood stress and distinct stages of dynamic behavior monitoring in adults: neural and behavioral correlates	15
The role of anterior prefrontal cortex (area 10) in face-to-face deception measured with fNIRS	15
The orbitofrontal cortex, food reward, body weight and obesity	15
Common neural and transcriptional correlates of inhibitory control underlie emotion regulation and memory control	15
Effects of acetaminophen on risk taking	14
Body sway predicts romantic interest in speed dating	14
Impact of exercise on older adults’ mood is moderated by sleep and mediated by altered brain connectivity	14
Multivariate model for cooperation: bridging social physiological compliance and hyperscanning	14
Comparing two facets of emotion perception across multiple neurodegenerative diseases	14
Fear conditioning prompts sparser representations of conditioned threat in primary visual cortex	14
Statistical pattern recognition reveals shared neural signatures for displaying and recognizing specific facial expressions	14
Becoming the King in the North: identification with fictional characters is associated with greater self–other neural overlap	14
Inter-brain neural mechanism underlying turn-based interaction under acute stress in women: a hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy	13
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	13
Mortality threat mitigates interpersonal competition: an EEG-based hyperscanning study	13
Prejudice drives exogenous attention to outgroups	13
Concordance in parent and offspring cortico-basal ganglia white matter connectivity varies by parental history of major depressive disorder and early parental care	13
A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions	13

Mind the social feedback: effects of tDCS applied to the left DLPFC on psychophysiological responses during the anticipation and reception of social evaluations	13
The social brain in female autism: a structural imaging study of twins	13
Morning brain: real-world neural evidence that high school class times matter	13
Reported maternal childhood maltreatment experiences, amygdala activation and functional connectivity to infant cry	13
Facing stereotypes: ERP responses to male and female faces after gender-stereotyped statements	13
Dorsolateral and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex track distinct properties of dynamic social behavior	13
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	13
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study	12
The personality dispositions and resting-state neural correlates associated with aggressive children	12
How do expectant fathers respond to infant cry? Examining brain and behavioral responses and the moderating role of testosterone	12
A systematic review of studies that used NIRS to measure neural activation during emotion processing in healthy individuals	12
Sex-specific interaction between cortisol and striato-limbic responses to psychosocial stress	12
Midfrontal-occipital θ-tACS modulates cognitive conflicts related to bodily stimuli	12
Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study	12
Population variability in social brain morphology for social support, household size and friendship satisfaction	12
Recognizing humanity: dehumanization predicts neural mirroring and empathic accuracy in face-to-face interactions	12
Anterior cingulate gyrus acts as a moderator of the relationship between problematic mobile phone use and depressive symptoms in college students	11
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	11
Multivariate spatial feature selection in fMRI	11
Consequences of prefrontal tDCS on inhibitory control and reactive aggression	11
Windowed multiscale synchrony: modeling time-varying and scale-localized interpersonal coordination dynamics	11
Situating language in a minimal social context: how seeing a picture of the speaker’s face affects language comprehension	11
Trait self-control mediates the association between resting-state neural correlates and emotional well-being in late adolescence	11
Social optimism biases are associated with cortical thickness	11
Default mode network functional connectivity negatively associated with trait openness to experience	11
The brain network in support of social semantic accumulation	11
From scanners to cell phones: neural and real-world responses to social evaluation in adolescent girls	11
Non-invasive stimulation of the social brain: the methodological challenges	11
The orbitofrontal cortex spontaneously encodes food health and contains more distinct representations for foods highest in tastiness	11
Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy	10
Interactions between decision-making and emotion in behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease	10
Confirmation of interpersonal expectations is intrinsically rewarding	10
Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain	10
Sexual dimorphism in hemispheric processing of faces in humans: A meta-analysis of 817 cases	10
Shared and unique neural circuitry underlying temporally unpredictable threat and reward processing	10
Neural mechanisms of reward and loss processing in a low-income sample of at-risk adolescents	10
Neural correlates of integrated self and social processing	10
An asymmetry in past and future mental time travel following vmPFC damage	10
Dissociable neural signatures of passive extinction and instrumental control over threatening events	10
Your presence soothes me: a neural process model of aversive emotion regulation via social buffering	10
Present and future self in memory: the role of vmPFC in the self-reference effect	10
Resting-state functional connectivity of neural circuits associated with primary and secondary rewards in patients with bipolar disorder	10