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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	23
Children with developmental dyslexia show an increased variable foreperiod effect	21
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	15
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	15
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	12
On a creativity that is mundane, cooperative, and material	12
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	11
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	10
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	10
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	9
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	9
Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit	9
Sex differences in mental rotation: the role of stereotyped material, perceived performance and extrinsic spatial ability	8
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	8
The bilingual effect on cognitive development: not an executive function advantage, but a differentiation of mental abilities	8
Developmental trajectory of children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decision for acting and testifying informants	7
Retrieval-induced forgetting of eye movements	7
An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown	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
Frequent media multitasking is not associated with better cognitive flexibility	7
Reappraise and be mindful! The key role of cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness in the association between openness to experience and divergent thinking	7
Absence of evidence for underspecification in prenominal relative clause attachment	6
Comprehending dynamic directions: the role of perceptual simulations	6
Semantic similarity and mutual information predicting sentence comprehension: the case of dangling topic construction in Chinese	6
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	6

Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences	6
The value of social position	6
Metacognitive awareness is needed for analogical transfer between dissimilar tasks	5
An explanation of or-deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences	5
Assessing the objective and subjective impacts of nature for reducing cognitive fatigue	5
Information sources and congruency modulate preference-based decision-making processes	5
Pooling it all together – the role of distractor pool size on stimulus-response binding	5
Do bilinguals have an advantage in prospective memory?	5
Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory	5
Social models influence visual perspective taking in memory	5
I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage	5
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	4
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	4
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	4
Moving distractors and moving targets: combining a response priming task with moving prime stimuli and a flanker task	4
Can verbal instructions aimed at being more reflective reduce threat-induced impulsivity?	4
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	4
Effects of gum chewing and repetitive motor activity on sustained attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder	4
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	4
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	4
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	4
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	4
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	4
Sex-dependent effects of threatening emotion on perceived gaze direction	4
The effect of emotion regulation on executive function	4
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	4
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	4
Computable creativity: lessons learned from mental imagery research	4
Mental imagery as a decision-making mode: the comparison of recreational and financial domains	3
When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning	3
Count on the €uro! Interference between the size and the value of the coins in the judgment of the monetary value	3
Effects of task characteristics and task-switching on remote associates test problem solving	3
Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity	3
The key to the observation–inflation effect: the simulation degree of action videos vs. verb–noun phrases	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
Input modality pairings influence dual task costs, but not cognitive load	3
Bayesian modelling of the latent structure of individual differences in the numerical size-congruity effect	3
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	3
Reasoning strategy moderates the transition between slow and fast reasoning	3
Auditory distraction can be studied online! A direct comparison between in-Person and online experimentation	3
Retrieval practice effect and individual differences: current status and future directions	3
Association between visual imagery characteristics and vividness ratings: examining one component of imagery experience in vividness measurement scales	3
Event-related brain potentials study of arithmetic fact retrieval in children with different math achievement levels	3
Evidence for reinstating diverse episodic contexts in retrieval-based learning	3
Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control	3
With concreteness details fade: dissociative effect of labelling of concrete and abstract stimuli on memory	2
Getting colour: response priming with motion primes and colour targets without a priori response binding	2
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	2
The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity	2
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	2

Two faces of grit–perseverance: Is it always good to exert grit?	2
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	2
The application of condition C on cataphoric pronoun resolution for Chinese learners of English: evidence from eye-tracking during reading	2
The role of theory of mind, executive function and language on children's lying behaviour	2
Conceptual and methodological considerations to the negative footprint illusion: a reply to Gorissen et al. (2024)	2
Cognitive skills, individual differences, and nonverbal interview methods in children’s eyewitness recall	2
Using retrieval practice to remediate boredom and multitasking in learning	2
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	2
The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not	2
Is there an infidelity-based reproductive processing advantage in adaptive memory? Effects of survival processing and jealousy processing on recall performance	2
The role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	2
Does learning to write and type make a difference in letter recognition and discrimination in primary school children?	2
Development of conditional learning abilities in children from 3 to 12 years of age	2
Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation	2
Cognitive load theory and its measurement: a study of secondary tasks in relation to working memory	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
Accurate in presence and inefficient in absence: how the presence of criminal evidence affects legal judgements	2
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	2
How state anxiety influences retrospective time perception: the moderated mediation of perceived control and memory bias	2
Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	2
Evidence for a group-level performance optimum and performance-neutral adaptation in a procedural task	2
What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading	2
The combined effect of music-induced emotions and neuromodulation on economic decision making: a tDCS study	2
Evaluating the effectiveness of L2 morphosyntax instructional methods in laboratory and classroom studies: a review	2
Cooperation in nature: a nature-based intervention improves collaboration and creativity	2
Practicing retrieval in university teaching: short-answer questions are beneficial, whereas multiple-choice questions are not	2
Gesturing the solution of a problem-solving task can speed up subsequent performance	1
Self and mother referential processing in phonological false memory	1
A preliminary investigation of proximal effects of media multitasking on executive functioning	1
Attention allocation in elite football refereeing: conceptual, empirical, and applied considerations	1
Effects of irrelevant speech on semantic and phonological judgments of Chinese characters	1
Emerging perspectives on distraction and task interruptions—Part III: contexts, mechanisms, and metacognitive blind spots	1
A task-interruption study on the activation of the primary task during the processing of the secondary task	1
Enhancing visuo-spatial working memory: the role of visual support in preschoolers and adults	1
Does performance on the cognitive reflection test indicate cognitive miserliness? Evidence from response times, working memory capacity, and warnings	1
Morphological cues as an aid to word learning: a cross-situational word learning study	1
Auditory distraction of vocal-motor behaviour by different components of song: testing an interference-by-process account	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
Sharing traumatic experiences: earlier denial increases endorsement of misinformation from a co-witness	1
Self-reference and cognitive effort: source memory for affectively neutral information is impaired following negative compared to positive self-referential processing	1
Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure	1
The neighbourhood frequency effect in naming is influenced by substituted-letter confusability and lexical skills	1
Event-Related Potentials (ERP) evidence of predictive coding account of time perception in the sub-second range oddball tasks	1
Olfactory and visual vs. multimodal landmark processing in human wayfinding: a virtual reality experiment	1
The metaphor of self/environmental cleanliness in the case of moral concepts: an event-related potential study	1
Bilingual effect: the influence of L2 reading proficiency on cognitive control differences among young adult Chinese-English bilinguals	1
Awe increases stimulus-specific curiosity	1
Exploring the role of word segmentation on parafoveal processing during Chinese reading	1
How spatial attention affects the decision process: looking through the lens of Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model & EEG analysis	1
Testing the effect of perceived stress and emotion regulation in the relationship between age and executive function	1
Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions	1
Attentional processing of preserved face and scrambled face distractors in preschool children with autism spectrum condition	1
Time course of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations	1
Navon-induced processing biases fail to affect the recognition of whole faces and isolated facial features	1
“Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach	1
Fast logic and belief-bias: it’s less how smart you are than how you think	1
Conditional learning abilities in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome	1
Test–retest reliability and practice effects on a shortened version of the Category Switch Task – a pilot study	1
Primed into security: can attachment security priming affect attachment-related biases on early attention?	1
Foreseeing interruptions in dynamic environments may undermine the adequacy between perceived and observable task performance	1
False information is harder to debunk after gist repetitions than verbatim repetitions	1
The role of inner speech in emotion recognition in children with and without developmental language disorder	1
Evaluating the effects of brief mindfulness practice on attentional control and episodic memory	1
Exploration of an adventure therapy case study through a trauma-informed neurobiological lens	1
Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting	1
Confirming the existence of a within-array novel pop-out effect using a novel procedure	1
Observation suppresses affective interference effects in high affective focus reaction time tasks	1
I lie because I am good at: psychopathic traits do not influence the effects of fabrication on memory	1
L1 effects on the processing of L2 compounds: an eye-tracking study	1
The negative footprint illusion is exacerbated by the numerosity of environment-friendly additions: unveiling the underpinning mechanisms	1
What is my teacher talking about? Effects of displaying the teacher’s gaze and mouse cursor cues in video lectures on students’ learning	1
When even the smartest fail to prioritise: overuse of information can decrease decision accuracy	1
Attraction effect in crowded decision spaces: exploring the impact of decoys in choices among numerous options	1
Too depleted to comprehend: resource depletion impairs situation model comprehension	1
Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control	1