OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cognitive Psychology is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How attentional resources of the same or across sensory modalities and task load affect cognitive performance? A multi-sensory integration study	19
There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022)	16
Healthy eating information and its impact on food decision-making among college students	16
An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy	14
Self-reference and cognitive effort: source memory for affectively neutral information is impaired following negative compared to positive self-referential processing	13
The cognition of programming: logical reasoning, algebra and vocabulary skills predict programming performance following an introductory computing course	13
The relationship between computational thinking and mental rotation ability: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	12
Primary-school children’s knowledge of transitivity of probability and of bounds of probability	11
Are we taking too many pictures? An investigation of the impact of smartphone photography on memory	10
Probability of minority inclusion is underestimated	10
The whole is more than the sum of its parts – addressing insight problem solving concurrently from a cognitive and an affective perspective	9
Is there an infidelity-based reproductive processing advantage in adaptive memory? Effects of survival processing and jealousy processing on recall performance	9
“Let the music play” – experimental study on background music and time preference	9
Executive control functions and theory of mind among plurilingual adults	8
Positive effects of a beta-frequency binaural beats programme on memory	7
Moving distractors and moving targets: combining a response priming task with moving prime stimuli and a flanker task	7
Revisiting the debate on germane cognitive load versus germane resources	7
Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds	7
The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity	7
Effect of post-encoding arousal on memory for words differing in priority: a test of the arousal-biased competition theory	7
Age of acquisition effects on the decomposition of compound words	6
The ruminative cycle in smokers: on the relationship between cigarette smoking behaviour, rumination, difficulties in thought suppression, and emotion regulation	6
Sweet taste brings happiness, but happiness does not taste sweet: the unidirectionality of taste-emotion metaphoric association	6
Beyond input: Language learners produce novel relative clause types without exposure.	6
Unraveling the distinct ambiguities of happiness and fear: neurodynamic and machine learning perspectives	6

Recollective experience mediates the relation between visual perspective and psychological closeness in autobiographical memory	5
“Threatening” mechanism of disorder: evidence from attentional bias	5
Mind wandering and contextual binding	5
The role of working memory in unfamiliar word processing across proficiency levels: evidence from eye movements	5
Early reading profiles of L2 English learners: how orthographic knowledge predicts reading comprehension	5
Children with developmental dyslexia show an increased variable foreperiod effect	5
Right-hemisphere coherence to speech at pre-reading stages predicts reading performance one year later	5
Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions	5
Eye-movement methodology reveals a shift in attention from threat to neutral stimuli with self-reported symptoms of social anxiety across children, adolescents and adults	4
The specific brain activity of dual task coordination: a theoretical conflict-control model based on a qualitative and quantitative review	4
Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process	4
Sleep and incubation: using problem reactivation during sleep to study forgetting fixation and unconscious processing during sleep incubation	4
Empirical evidence of the role of executive functions in tolerance of emotional distress	4
Representing negated statements: when false possibilities also play in the mind	4
Spaced example-based learning facilitates advanced mathematics learning in college students	4
The role of inner speech in emotion recognition in children with and without developmental language disorder	4
The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not	4
Partial habituation to disruption by irrelevant emotive speech—evidence for duplex-mechanism account	4
Gut thinking and eye tracking: evidence for a central preference heuristic	3
Distinct patterns of emotional processing in ADHD and anxiety. Evidence from an eye-movement Go/No-Go task	3
Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates	3
Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control	3
With concreteness details fade: dissociative effect of labelling of concrete and abstract stimuli on memory	3
Suggestibility to additive versus contradictory misinformation: effects of visual and auditory post-event information	3
Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure	3
Success starts with the first step: insight problem-solving stages and their underlying cognitive strategies	3
Language-specific cognitive flexibility is related to code-switching habits and interactional context; domain-general cognitive flexibility is not	3
Individuals with low arithmetic abilities are sensitive to interference during knowledge retrieval from long-term memory across different domains	3
The modulation of emotional awareness using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques: a literature review on TMS and tDCS	3
The approximate number system and mathematics achievement: it's complicated. A thorough investigation of different ANS measures and executive functions in mathematics achievement in children	3
Choice blindness in autistic and non-autistic people	3
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the perceived duration of pain	3
Emerging perspectives on distraction and task interruptions: metacognition, cognitive control, and facilitation-Part 2	3
How state anxiety influences retrospective time perception: the moderated mediation of perceived control and memory bias	2
Developmental gender differences in children in a spatial recognition task	2
The mental model theory of free choice permissions and paradoxical disjunctive inferences	2
Using intentional and incidental encoding instructions to test the transfer inappropriate processing shift account of verbal overshadowing	2
Why do people pursue goals sequentially when they try to balance cost and utility?	2
Does learning to write and type make a difference in letter recognition and discrimination in primary school children?	2
What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading	2
Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task	2
Seeing red as anger or romance: an emotion categorisation task	2
Dual system in the ultimatum game: evidence from the process dissociation procedure	2
Time course of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations	2
Leaping across the mental canyon: higher-order long-distance analogical retrieval	2
Effects of thought suppression on automatic retrieval of memory: the role of monitoring and cognitive load	2
Attraction effect in crowded decision spaces: exploring the impact of decoys in choices among numerous options	2
Temporal course of the sign effect in intertemporal choice	2
Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity	2
Number of topic-vehicle shared features influences the aptness of metaphors	2

Working memory capacity, removal efficiency and event specific memory as predictors of misinformation reliance	2
On a creativity that is mundane, cooperative, and material	2
Semantic verbal fluency: network analysis in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease	2
Creativity: definitions and computability	2
Test–retest reliability and practice effects on a shortened version of the Category Switch Task – a pilot study	2
The effect of ageing on confrontation naming in healthy older adults: a three-level meta-analysis	2
The contribution of static and dynamic tests to the assessment of visuospatial abilities among adult males	2
The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence	2
What is my teacher talking about? Effects of displaying the teacher’s gaze and mouse cursor cues in video lectures on students’ learning	2
Warning—taboo words ahead! Avoiding attentional capture by spoken taboo distractors	2
Component processes in task switching: cue switch costs are dependent on a mixed block of trials	2
A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain	2
The benefits of thinking about past successes. Recalling agency leads to greater susceptibility to positive cues in ambiguous facial expressions	2
Conspiracy theories: why they are believed and how they can be challenged	2
The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions, on the enactment benefit to memory	2
Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions	2
Sex differences in mental rotation: the role of stereotyped material, perceived performance and extrinsic spatial ability	2
Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study	2
No easy fix for belief bias during syllogistic reasoning?	2
Conditional learning abilities in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome	2
Identifying obstacles to transfer of critical thinking skills	2
Teaching actively open-minded thinking online: encouraging effects of a serious computer game and an online module	2