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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	18
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	17
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	17
On a creativity that is mundane, cooperative, and material	15
Cognitive biases in individuals with chronic pain: interpretation, recall and recognition of pain/illness-related information	12
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	12
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	10
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	10
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	10
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	10
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	10
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	9
Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit	9
Developmental trajectory of children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decision for acting and testifying informants	8
Retrieval-induced forgetting of eye movements	8
An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown	8
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	8
Reappraise and be mindful! The key role of cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness in the association between openness to experience and divergent thinking	8
Semantic similarity and mutual information predicting sentence comprehension: the case of dangling topic construction in Chinese	7
Learning words that look the same across languages: examining the translation-ambiguity disadvantage in naïve Dutch learners	7
The value of social position	7
L1-L2 valence-specific effects in recall and recognition bias in sequential bilinguals	7
Comprehending dynamic directions: the role of perceptual simulations	7
Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences	7
The psychological distance effect on conspiracy belief: the roles of cognitive factors and crisis awareness	6

Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory	6
Social models influence visual perspective taking in memory	6
Information sources and congruency modulate preference-based decision-making processes	6
Metacognitive awareness is needed for analogical transfer between dissimilar tasks	5
The effect of emotion regulation on executive function	5
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	5
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	5
An explanation of or -deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences	5
Do bilinguals have an advantage in prospective memory?	5
I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage	5
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	5
Assessing the objective and subjective impacts of nature for reducing cognitive fatigue	5
Influence of sadness on level-2 visual perspective-taking: exploring egocentric and altercentric interferences	5
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	5
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	5
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	4
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	4
Mental imagery as a decision-making mode: the comparison of recreational and financial domains	4
Characteristics of fascination: using eye-tracking to explore the impact of spatial frequency on the allocation of attention to nature and urban scenes	4
Is a bullet spherical or dangerous? Classifier-aligned object categorisation in speakers of Mandarin Chinese	4
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	4
Can verbal instructions aimed at being more reflective reduce threat-induced impulsivity?	4
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	4
Sex-dependent effects of threatening emotion on perceived gaze direction	4
When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning	4
Effects of irrelevant emotionally negative stimuli on strategy selection and eye-fixation correlates	4
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	4
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	4
Effects of gum chewing and repetitive motor activity on sustained attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder	4
Association between visual imagery characteristics and vividness ratings: examining one component of imagery experience in vividness measurement scales	4
Computable creativity: lessons learned from mental imagery research	4
Event-related brain potentials study of arithmetic fact retrieval in children with different math achievement levels	3
Effects of task characteristics and task-switching on remote associates test problem solving	3
Bayesian modelling of the latent structure of individual differences in the numerical size-congruity effect	3
Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control	3
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	3
A natural boost to cognitive control? Two pilot studies on nature exposure as a potential modulator of the anterior N2 component and midline frontal theta	3
Retrieval practice effect and individual differences: current status and future directions	3
Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity	3
Two faces of grit–perseverance: Is it always good to exert grit?	3
No evidence for a vibrotactile changing-state effect in serial recall: a multi-experimental replication attempt	3
Reasoning strategy moderates the transition between slow and fast reasoning	3
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	3
Count on the €uro! Interference between the size and the value of the coins in the judgment of the monetary value	3
Evidence for a group-level performance optimum and performance-neutral adaptation in a procedural task	3
Truth, lies, and consequences: differential effects of deception on memory ratings and accuracy	3
The role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	3