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 2021-08-01 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
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	12
Sex differences in mental rotation: the role of stereotyped material, perceived performance and extrinsic spatial ability	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
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	9
Why do people pursue goals sequentially when they try to balance cost and utility?	9
Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit	9
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	8
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	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
An explanation of or-deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences	5
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
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
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
Characteristics of fascination: using eye-tracking to explore the impact of spatial frequency on the allocation of attention to nature and urban scenes	3
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