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Papers

(The median citation count of Cognitive Neuroscience is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of affordances in technological cognition	20
What is technology-specific in technological cognition?	18
Relational properties as a source of variation for object representation in OTC	16
Hippocampal activity supporting working memory is contingent upon specific task demands	16
Seeking cognitive and neural specificity in occipitotemporal cortex	15
Closing the box	14
What does the hippocampus do during working-memory tasks? A cognitive-neuropsychological perspective	14
Does working memory activate the hippocampus during the late delay period?	10
In search of systems consolidation	9
Understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions – integrating neurophenomenology and literary studies	9
Theoretical strategies for an embodied cognitive neuroscience: Mechanistic explanations of brain-body-environment systems	9
A network-level perspective on technological cognition	8
Bidirectionality and the application of the integrated neurocognitive model of technological cognition to late life cognitive health	7
Toward a cognitive neuroscience of technology	7
In defense of categories	7
Degree of abstraction rather than ambiguity is crucial for driving mentalizing involvement commentary on “A-EM: a neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality”	6
Grounding the computational principles of language in neurobiology requires cross-modal and cross-linguistic data	5
Differential effects of bilateral hippocampal CA3 damage on the implicit learning and recognition of complex event sequences	5
The diversity of possible constitutive components in cognitive neurosciences	5
Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex	5
Sensorimotor representation of observed dyadic actions with varying agent involvement: an EEG mu study	4
Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention	4
Unconscious processing effects manifest only if conscious processing is excluded	3
Imposing vs finding unity	3
Facial distortions as a critical test for models of the organization of visual function	3

When perception fades, the hippocampus may support implicit memory	3
Concerns about confounds: False memory as an explanation for a hippocampus-supported implicit eye-movement-based relational memory effect	3
The dead salmon strikes again: Reports of unconscious processing in the hippocampus may reflect Type-I error	3
Understanding the role of the frontal lobe in tool-use tasks: how much does it represent domain-general rather than domain-specific contribution?	2
Visuo-spatial working memory abilities modulate mental rotation: Evidence from event-related potentials	2
Do we need to reconceptualize emotions?	2
Mechanistic explanation and the integration between language and action	2
Role of the prefrontal cortex and executive functions in basic emotions recognition: evidence from patients with focal damage to the prefrontal cortex	2
Visual input statistics and behavioral relevance jointly constrain higher visual cortex organization	2
How deep will you go? Hierarchy in predictive coding and transformers	2
Enriching the neurocognitive model of technological cognition: the role of emotional and reward-related processes	2
The hippocampus and long-term memory	2
Changes in brain activity and connectivity as memories age	2
Counterfactual imagination impairs memory for true actions: EEG and behavioural evidence	2
Beyond prediction: comments on the format of natural intelligence	1
Mixed and ambiguous emotions can be studied with verbal irony	1
Advancing mechanistic explanations through natural and artificial embodied cognitive systems	1
The hippocampus and implicit memory	1
Catching the drift: EEG microstate dynamics resemble time-on-task changes in mind wandering and sustained attention	1
‘Working memory is a distributed dynamic process’	1
Leveraging ventral temporal cortex's primary role in object recognition	1
Auditory facilitation in deterministic versus stochastic worlds	1
An integrated account for technological cognition	1
Area PFt is the parietal hub for goal-directed complex tool use, whether physical or digital	1
Causal investigation of mid-frontal theta activity in memory guided visual search	1
The pattern of intra-/inter-hemispheric interactions of left and right hemispheres in visual word processing	1
Non-Markovian systems, phenomenology, and the challenges of capturing meaning and context – comment on Parr, Pezzulo, and Friston (2025)	1
TMS must not harm participants: guidelines for evaluating TMS protocol safety	1
Finally putting the horse before the cart?	1
Half-listening or zoned out? It’s about the same: the impact of attentional state on word processing in context	1
Beyond embodiment: Rethinking the integration of cognitive neuroscience and mechanistic explanations	1
MA-EM: A neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality	1
From framework to function: sharpening digital tool use within technological cognition	1
Reducing type II error in fMRI analysis: cluster-extent threshold simulation results and an evaluation of current methods to correct for multiple comparisons	1
Hippocampal involvement in working memory following refreshing	1
Mosaic or kaleidoscope: tensions between mereology and etiology	1
fMRI research: do we need statistically better studies, larger studies, or no more studies?	1
Separating minimal from radical embodied cognitive neuroscience	1
ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar	1
Mechanisms for maintaining information in working memory	1
Mechanisms after the end of New Mechanism	1
Visual cortex through the lens of language	1
A way forward for design and analysis of neuroimaging studies of memory consolidation	1
Integrated account for technological cognition: strengths and challenges	1
Spatiotemporal dynamics of selective attention and visual conflict monitoring using a Stroop task	1
Rethinking category selectivity: insights from the macaque inferior temporal cortex	1
On the clinical anatomy of technological cognition	1
Dissociating model architectures from inference computations	1
The hippocampus and implicit memory (by any other name)	1
Autonomous semantics and syntax on-demand in neurocomputational models of language	1

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