npj Science of Learning

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant79
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance45
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning42
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts37
Motor learning mechanisms are not modified by feedback manipulations in a real-world task35
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching32
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components29
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness26
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people22
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment22
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity22
The distinct functions of working memory and intelligence in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning22
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity21
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers21
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding20
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure20
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries20
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms19
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality19
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training18
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony17
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents16
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics16
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others16
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement15
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance15
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts15
Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning14
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms14
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans14
Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words14
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions13
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning13
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning13
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood13
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword13
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education13
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education13
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS12
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research12
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently12
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training12
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school12
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults12
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance11
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential11
Learning reduces ingroup bias more with perceived losses than gains across cultures11
Publisher Correction: How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making11
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan11
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics10
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity10
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training10
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency9
Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds – using instructional scaffolds to improve performance9
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions9
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement9
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation9
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial9
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?9
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning9
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers9
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors8
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice8
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal8
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment8
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students8
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom8
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication8
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India7
Question asking practice fosters aspects of curiosity in science content in young children7
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity7
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation7
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts6
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning6
Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception6
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension6
Growth mindset and socioeconomic inequality in academic achievement across seventy-three PISA countries6
Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory6
Timing of reward cues alters the interaction between reward and interest on memory over time6
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning6
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa6
Impaired audio-visual associations in dyslexia: evidence beyond linguistic processing6
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology6
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children6
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation6
Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education5
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection5
Differential effects of external noise and situational interest on neurophysiological responses during video based learning5
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide5
Divergent effects of mindsets on performance trajectories5
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers5
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education5
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment5
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults5
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness5
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder5
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training5
Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people5
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity5
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?5
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach5
Sleep duration and subject-specific academic performance among adolescents in China4
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities4
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children4
Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence4
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training4
An ecological approach to understanding transitions and tensions in complex learning contexts4
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers4
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia4
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation4
Effect of cognitive control strategies on young children’s attention and emotion during coding learning4
Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners4
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula4
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality4
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers4
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant4
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status3
Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning3
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets3
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders3
Author Correction: Offline consolidation mechanisms of the retrieval practice effect: an analysis based on EEG signal characteristics3
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions3
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration3
Personalized and gamified auditory-cognitive training improves naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults with hearing loss3
A qualitative systematic review on AI empowered self-regulated learning in higher education3
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality3
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality3
A dual-process model for cognitive training3
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain3
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text3
Target configuration determines how and what we learn during sensorimotor adaptation3
Associations of adolescent menstrual symptoms with school absences and educational attainment: analysis of a prospective cohort study3
Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions3
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain3
The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep2
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)2
EEG analysis of brain dynamics in a simulated multi-task and multi-stage learning environment2
Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students2
Action video games normalise the phonemic awareness in pre-readers at risk for developmental dyslexia2
Modulating social learning-induced evaluation updating during human sleep2
A methodological perspective on learning in the developing brain2
Arithmetic skills are associated with left fronto-temporal gray matter volume in 536 children and adolescents2
Protection of savings by reducing the salience of opposing errors2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions2
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance2
Cerebellar interpositus nucleus exhibits time-dependent errors and predictive responses2
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making2
A working memory dependent dual process model of the testing effect2
Triggers of curiosity in social constructivist classroom discourse2
Author Correction: The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors2
Neural signals gradually shift towards inferior frontal gyrus and long-term effects following facial imitation-based social learning2
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions2
Abnormal brain activation during speech perception and production in children and adults with reading difficulty2
Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education2
Dissociable sensory, motor, and visuomotor predictive functions2
Grit and academic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing2
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