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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant	62
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching	40
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task	39
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance	37
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning	33
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts	32
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components	31
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers	30
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity	21
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	20
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure	20
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment	20
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding	20
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people	20
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity	19
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness	19
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	17
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries	17
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training	16
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others	16
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms	15
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony	15
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents	15
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance	15

Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement	14
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts	14
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking	14
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms	13
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood	13
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning	13
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions	12
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education	12
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning	12
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans	12
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning	12
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword	11
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education	11
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS	11
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults	11
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training	10
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school	10
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential	10
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts	10
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research	10
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently	10
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity	9
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training	9
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement	9
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance	9
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics	9
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan	9
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?	9
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance	9
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency	8
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal	8
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	8
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation	8
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom	8
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning	8
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers	8
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions	8
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation	7
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students	7
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication	7
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment	7
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice	7
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial	7
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology	6
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity	6
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India	6
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension	6
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts	6
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning	6
Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory	6

Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation	6
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa	6
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	5
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity	5
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education	5
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach	5
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children	5
Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people	5
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?	5
Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education	5
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder	5
Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception	5
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment	5
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide	5
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults	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
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training	4
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality	4
Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence	4
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia	4
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness	4
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula	4
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills	4
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers	4
Divergent effects of mindsets on performance trajectories	4
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers	4
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation	4
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children	4
Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners	3
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets	3
A dual-process model for cognitive training	3
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration	3
Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning	3
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training	3
Sleep duration and subject-specific academic performance among adolescents in China	3
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain	3
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status	3
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders	3
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities	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
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text	3
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality	3
Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions	3
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant	3
Effect of cognitive control strategies on young children’s attention and emotion during coding learning	3
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions	2
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty	2
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality	2
Cerebellar interpositus nucleus exhibits time-dependent errors and predictive responses	2
Author Correction: Understanding the role of eye movement consistency in face recognition and autism through integrating deep neural networks and hidden Markov models	2
A methodological perspective on learning in the developing brain	2
Grit and academic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Author Correction: The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors	2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions	2
Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education	2
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain	2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep	2
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance	2
Psychological proximity improves reasoning in academic aptitude tests	2
Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students	2
Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing	2
A working memory dependent dual process model of the testing effect	2
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions	2
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)	2
Associations of adolescent menstrual symptoms with school absences and educational attainment: analysis of a prospective cohort study	2
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making	2
The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension	2
Triggers of curiosity in social constructivist classroom discourse	2
Action video games normalise the phonemic awareness in pre-readers at risk for developmental dyslexia	2
Modulating social learning-induced evaluation updating during human sleep	2
Arithmetic skills are associated with left fronto-temporal gray matter volume in 536 children and adolescents	2
Protection of savings by reducing the salience of opposing errors	2