OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cognitive Psychology is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	19
Children with developmental dyslexia show an increased variable foreperiod effect	18
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	14
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	13
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	12
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	11
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	11
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	10
Why do people pursue goals sequentially when they try to balance cost and utility?	10
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	9
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	9
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	8
Sex differences in mental rotation: the role of stereotyped material, perceived performance and extrinsic spatial ability	8
Frequent media multitasking is not associated with better cognitive flexibility	7
The bilingual effect on cognitive development: not an executive function advantage, but a differentiation of mental abilities	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
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
An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown	7
Unusual uses and experiences are good for feeling insightful, but not for problem solving: contributions of schizotypy, divergent thinking, and fluid reasoning, to insight moments	6
Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory	6
Semantic similarity and mutual information predicting sentence comprehension: the case of dangling topic construction in Chinese	6
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	6
The value of social position	6

Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences	5
Information sources and congruency modulate preference-based decision-making processes	5
Do bilinguals have an advantage in prospective memory?	5
Culture and visual perspective in mental time travel: the relations to psychological well-being	5
Absence of evidence for underspecification in prenominal relative clause attachment	5
I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage	5
Metacognitive awareness is needed for analogical transfer between dissimilar tasks	5
An explanation of or-deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences	5
Social models influence visual perspective taking in memory	5
Pooling it all together – the role of distractor pool size on stimulus-response binding	5
Moving distractors and moving targets: combining a response priming task with moving prime stimuli and a flanker task	4
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	4
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	4
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	4
The mental model theory of free choice permissions and paradoxical disjunctive inferences	4
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	4
The effect of emotion regulation on executive function	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
Effects of gum chewing and repetitive motor activity on sustained attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder	3
Computable creativity: lessons learned from mental imagery research	3
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	3
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	3
Retrieval practice effect and individual differences: current status and future directions	3
The effect of mindfulness and stereotype threat in mental rotation: a pupillometry study	3
Sex-dependent effects of threatening emotion on perceived gaze direction	3
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	3
Gut thinking and eye tracking: evidence for a central preference heuristic	3
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	3
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	3
When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning	3
Naïve intuitions about what constitutes “an opposite process”	3
Can verbal instructions aimed at being more reflective reduce threat-induced impulsivity?	3
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	3
The modulation of emotional awareness using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques: a literature review on TMS and tDCS	3
Input modality pairings influence dual task costs, but not cognitive load	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
Self-referential processing in false recognition and source monitoring: Self-other differences	3