OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Cognitive Psychology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	20
Children with developmental dyslexia show an increased variable foreperiod effect	20
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	20
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	14
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	13
Sex differences in mental rotation: the role of stereotyped material, perceived performance and extrinsic spatial ability	12
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	12
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	11
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	11
Why do people pursue goals sequentially when they try to balance cost and utility?	9
Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit	9
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	9
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	8
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	8
An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown	7
The bilingual effect on cognitive development: not an executive function advantage, but a differentiation of mental abilities	7
On a creativity that is mundane, cooperative, and material	7
Reappraise and be mindful! The key role of cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness in the association between openness to experience and divergent thinking	7
On pleasures of the mind related to humour and insight problem solving: an investigation of people’s awareness of what they like and why	7
Developmental trajectory of children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decision for acting and testifying informants	7
Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory	6
Frequent media multitasking is not associated with better cognitive flexibility	6
The value of social position	6
Retrieval-induced forgetting of eye movements	6
Semantic similarity and mutual information predicting sentence comprehension: the case of dangling topic construction in Chinese	6

Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	6
I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage	5
Do bilinguals have an advantage in prospective memory?	5
Pooling it all together – the role of distractor pool size on stimulus-response binding	5
Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences	5
Metacognitive awareness is needed for analogical transfer between dissimilar tasks	5
Absence of evidence for underspecification in prenominal relative clause attachment	5
The effect of emotion regulation on executive function	5
Culture and visual perspective in mental time travel: the relations to psychological well-being	5
Information sources and congruency modulate preference-based decision-making processes	5
Social models influence visual perspective taking in memory	5
Moving distractors and moving targets: combining a response priming task with moving prime stimuli and a flanker task	5
An explanation of or-deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences	5
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	4
Computable creativity: lessons learned from mental imagery research	4
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	4
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	4
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	4
Can verbal instructions aimed at being more reflective reduce threat-induced impulsivity?	4
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	4
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	4
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	4
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	4
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	4
Effects of gum chewing and repetitive motor activity on sustained attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder	3
Mental imagery as a decision-making mode: the comparison of recreational and financial domains	3
Input modality pairings influence dual task costs, but not cognitive load	3
Self-referential processing in false recognition and source monitoring: Self-other differences	3
Effects of task characteristics and task-switching on remote associates test problem solving	3
Retrieval practice effect and individual differences: current status and future directions	3
The mental model theory of free choice permissions and paradoxical disjunctive inferences	3
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	3
When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning	3
The effect of mindfulness and stereotype threat in mental rotation: a pupillometry study	3
Event-related brain potentials study of arithmetic fact retrieval in children with different math achievement levels	3
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	3
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	3
Sex-dependent effects of threatening emotion on perceived gaze direction	3
Gut thinking and eye tracking: evidence for a central preference heuristic	3
Naïve intuitions about what constitutes “an opposite process”	3
Count on the €uro! Interference between the size and the value of the coins in the judgment of the monetary value	3
Bayesian modelling of the latent structure of individual differences in the numerical size-congruity effect	3
Characteristics of fascination: using eye-tracking to explore the impact of spatial frequency on the allocation of attention to nature and urban scenes	3
Evidence for a group-level performance optimum and performance-neutral adaptation in a procedural task	2
Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity	2
Evidence for reinstating diverse episodic contexts in retrieval-based learning	2
The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity	2
Conceptual and methodological considerations to the negative footprint illusion: a reply to Gorissen et al. (2024)	2
The role of contextual factors on neurocognitive processing: a systematic review with meta-analysis of the effect of response types in cognitive tasks	2
Effects of thought suppression on automatic retrieval of memory: the role of monitoring and cognitive load	2

Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	2
What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading	2
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	2
How state anxiety influences retrospective time perception: the moderated mediation of perceived control and memory bias	2
The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not	2
Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control	2
Auditory distraction can be studied online! A direct comparison between in-Person and online experimentation	2
Is there an infidelity-based reproductive processing advantage in adaptive memory? Effects of survival processing and jealousy processing on recall performance	2
Using retrieval practice to remediate boredom and multitasking in learning	2
Accurate in presence and inefficient in absence: how the presence of criminal evidence affects legal judgements	2
Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation	2
Practicing retrieval in university teaching: short-answer questions are beneficial, whereas multiple-choice questions are not	2
Reasoning strategy moderates the transition between slow and fast reasoning	2
The application of condition C on cataphoric pronoun resolution for Chinese learners of English: evidence from eye-tracking during reading	2
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	2
Evaluating the effectiveness of L2 morphosyntax instructional methods in laboratory and classroom studies: a review	2
The key to the observation–inflation effect: the simulation degree of action videos vs. verb–noun phrases	2
Verbal overshadowing at an immediate Task-Test delay is independent of Video-Task delay	2
Two faces of grit–perseverance: Is it always good to exert grit?	2
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	2
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	2
Cognitive skills, individual differences, and nonverbal interview methods in children’s eyewitness recall	2
Does learning to write and type make a difference in letter recognition and discrimination in primary school children?	2
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	2
With concreteness details fade: dissociative effect of labelling of concrete and abstract stimuli on memory	2
The role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	2
Testing the effect of perceived stress and emotion regulation in the relationship between age and executive function	1
Exploring the role of word segmentation on parafoveal processing during Chinese reading	1
Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control	1
Conditional learning abilities in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome	1
The role of inner speech in emotion recognition in children with and without developmental language disorder	1
Attentional processing of preserved face and scrambled face distractors in preschool children with autism spectrum condition	1
Out-of-body memory encoding causes third-person perspective at recall	1
The metaphor of self/environmental cleanliness in the case of moral concepts: an event-related potential study	1
Sharing traumatic experiences: earlier denial increases endorsement of misinformation from a co-witness	1
Olfactory and visual vs. multimodal landmark processing in human wayfinding: a virtual reality experiment	1
The neighbourhood frequency effect in naming is influenced by substituted-letter confusability and lexical skills	1
Primed into security: can attachment security priming affect attachment-related biases on early attention?	1
Development of conditional learning abilities in children from 3 to 12 years of age	1
The combined effect of music-induced emotions and neuromodulation on economic decision making: a tDCS study	1
Fast logic and belief-bias: it’s less how smart you are than how you think	1
I lie because I am good at: psychopathic traits do not influence the effects of fabrication on memory	1
Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions	1
Attraction effect in crowded decision spaces: exploring the impact of decoys in choices among numerous options	1
Enhancing visuo-spatial working memory: the role of visual support in preschoolers and adults	1
Right-hemisphere coherence to speech at pre-reading stages predicts reading performance one year later	1
Implicit effect of abstract/concrete components in the categorization of Chinese words	1
The ruminative cycle in smokers: on the relationship between cigarette smoking behaviour, rumination, difficulties in thought suppression, and emotion regulation	1
Exploration of an adventure therapy case study through a trauma-informed neurobiological lens	1
Navon-induced processing biases fail to affect the recognition of whole faces and isolated facial features	1
Attention allocation in elite football refereeing: conceptual, empirical, and applied considerations	1
Gesturing the solution of a problem-solving task can speed up subsequent performance	1
Event-Related Potentials (ERP) evidence of predictive coding account of time perception in the sub-second range oddball tasks	1
Cognitive load theory and its measurement: a study of secondary tasks in relation to working memory	1
The role of theory of mind, executive function and language on children's lying behaviour	1
Morphological cues as an aid to word learning: a cross-situational word learning study	1
Test–retest reliability and practice effects on a shortened version of the Category Switch Task – a pilot study	1
Time course of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations	1
Self-reference and cognitive effort: source memory for affectively neutral information is impaired following negative compared to positive self-referential processing	1
Too depleted to comprehend: resource depletion impairs situation model comprehension	1
Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure	1
False information is harder to debunk after gist repetitions than verbatim repetitions	1
The negative footprint illusion is exacerbated by the numerosity of environment-friendly additions: unveiling the underpinning mechanisms	1
Confirming the existence of a within-array novel pop-out effect using a novel procedure	1
Foreseeing interruptions in dynamic environments may undermine the adequacy between perceived and observable task performance	1
A preliminary investigation of proximal effects of media multitasking on executive functioning	1
Self and mother referential processing in phonological false memory	1
When even the smartest fail to prioritise: overuse of information can decrease decision accuracy	1
Cooperation in nature: a nature-based intervention improves collaboration and creativity	1