OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	52
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	45
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women	45
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization	44
Targeting the DLPFC to Enhance Memory Control: Divergent Effects on Social and Nonsocial Memories	35
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	32
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	30
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	29
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	27
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	26
Intertemporal Meditation Regulates Time Perception and Emotions: An Exploratory fNIRS Study	25
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources	24
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	22
Neural Responses to Social Touch with Different Emotional Valences: An fNIRS Study	21
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing	20
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	20
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	20
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	19
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	19
Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network	18
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry	18
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions	17
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors	16
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood	16

Potential for the Medial Prefrontal Cortex to link Mentalizing and Attachment Schemas	16
The speed of race	16
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion	15
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: Neural and behavioral evidence	15
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity	15
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	15
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study	15
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being	14
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge	14
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness	14
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	14
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth	13
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners	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
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing	12
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life	12
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear	12
Neural changes in reward processing following approach-avoidance training for depression	12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+	12
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study	11
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders	11
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood	11
Localized task-invariant emotional valence encoding revealed by intracranial recordings	11
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study	11
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake	11
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better	11
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan	11
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations	11
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
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem	10
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward	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
Reconciling psychological and neuroscientific accounts of reduced motivation in aging	10
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception	10
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults	10
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse	10
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study	10
Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae	10
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis	10
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	10
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model	9
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	9
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	9
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	9
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	9
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study	8
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations	8
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli	8
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	8

Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	8
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	8
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	8
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	8
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	8
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition	8
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	8
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages	7
Love in the Time of Zoom: How Intimacy Modulates Brain and Behavior Synchrony in Face-to-Face vs. Video Communication	7
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals	7
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future	7
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning	7
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli	7
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders	7
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies	7
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care	7
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents	7