OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of npj Science of Learning 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	51
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance	37
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	36
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	36
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	33
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	31
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	30
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components	28
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	20
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	20
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	20
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	19
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people	18
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity	18
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	17
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality	17
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics	16
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	16
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	15
No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details	15
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	15
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	14
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	14
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	13
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	13

Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	13
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	13
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	12
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	12
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	12
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education	12
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning	12
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	11
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	11
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions	11
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS	10
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	10
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	10
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	10
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	10
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school	9
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	9
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	9
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	9
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research	9
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	9
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	9
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training	8
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	8
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	8
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	8
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	8
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	8
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	8
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance	8
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	7
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	7
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	7
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	6
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	6
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	6
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation	6
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication	6
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	6
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	6
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	5
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology	5
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension	5
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children	5
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity	5
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	5
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation	5
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning	5
Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception	5
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa	5

The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	5
Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory	5
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts	5
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning	5
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection	5
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	4
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	4
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide	4
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality	4
Divergent effects of mindsets on performance trajectories	4
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education	4
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach	4
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder	4
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults	4
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training	4
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness	4
Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people	4
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	4
Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education	4
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia	4
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	4
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	4
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills	3
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula	3
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers	3
An ecological approach to understanding transitions and tensions in complex learning contexts	3
A qualitative systematic review on AI empowered self-regulated learning in higher education	3
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	3
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities	3
Effect of cognitive control strategies on young children’s attention and emotion during coding learning	3
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets	3
Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence	3
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training	3
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation	3
Sleep duration and subject-specific academic performance among adolescents in China	3
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status	3
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant	3
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions	2
Protection of savings by reducing the salience of opposing errors	2
A working memory dependent dual process model of the testing effect	2
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	2
Associations of adolescent menstrual symptoms with school absences and educational attainment: analysis of a prospective cohort study	2
Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners	2
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text	2
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty	2
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance	2
Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education	2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	2
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	2
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	2
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	2
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain	2
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain	2
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	2
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)	2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions	2
Cerebellar interpositus nucleus exhibits time-dependent errors and predictive responses	2
A dual-process model for cognitive training	2
Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions	2
Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning	2
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration	2
Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students	2