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

Article	Citations
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	24
Children with developmental dyslexia show an increased variable foreperiod effect	16
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
On a creativity that is mundane, cooperative, and material	11
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	11
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	11
Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit	9
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	9
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	8
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	8
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	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
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
Individual differences and counterfactual thinking	7
Reappraise and be mindful! The key role of cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness in the association between openness to experience and divergent thinking	7
Comprehending dynamic directions: the role of perceptual simulations	7
Developmental trajectory of children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decision for acting and testifying informants	7
Retrieval-induced forgetting of eye movements	7
Absence of evidence for underspecification in prenominal relative clause attachment	6
Semantic similarity and mutual information predicting sentence comprehension: the case of dangling topic construction in Chinese	6
The value of social position	6
The effect of emotion regulation on executive function	5
Metacognitive awareness is needed for analogical transfer between dissimilar tasks	5

L1-L2 valence-specific effects in recall and recognition bias in sequential bilinguals	5
Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory	5
Pooling it all together – the role of distractor pool size on stimulus-response binding	5
Influence of sadness on level-2 visual perspective-taking: exploring egocentric and altercentric interferences	5
Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences	5
Information sources and congruency modulate preference-based decision-making processes	5
Social models influence visual perspective taking in memory	5
Assessing the objective and subjective impacts of nature for reducing cognitive fatigue	5
Do bilinguals have an advantage in prospective memory?	5
The psychological distance effect on conspiracy belief: the roles of cognitive factors and crisis awareness	5
An explanation of or-deletions and other paradoxical disjunctive inferences	5
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
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	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
Sex-dependent effects of threatening emotion on perceived gaze direction	4
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	4
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	4
Moving distractors and moving targets: combining a response priming task with moving prime stimuli and a flanker task	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
Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect	4
I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage	4
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	4
Can verbal instructions aimed at being more reflective reduce threat-induced impulsivity?	4
Computable creativity: lessons learned from mental imagery research	4
The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence	4
Mental imagery as a decision-making mode: the comparison of recreational and financial domains	4
Count on the €uro! Interference between the size and the value of the coins in the judgment of the monetary value	3
Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity	3
Effects of task characteristics and task-switching on remote associates test problem solving	3
When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning	3
Retrieval practice effect and individual differences: current status and future directions	3
Bayesian modelling of the latent structure of individual differences in the numerical size-congruity effect	3
Auditory distraction can be studied online! A direct comparison between in-Person and online experimentation	3
Input modality pairings influence dual task costs, but not cognitive load	3
Is a bullet spherical or dangerous? Classifier-aligned object categorisation in speakers of Mandarin Chinese	3
The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news	3
Event-related brain potentials study of arithmetic fact retrieval in children with different math achievement levels	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
Association between visual imagery characteristics and vividness ratings: examining one component of imagery experience in vividness measurement scales	3