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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Publisher Correction: Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant45
States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts40
Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning34
Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching33
Impact of impulsivity on the relationship of the brain structures with school performance33
A tailored small group instruction intervention in mathematics benefits low achievers32
The neurocognitive mechanism underlying math avoidance among math anxious people29
Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding29
Note-by-note predictability modulates rhythm learning and its neural components28
Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively20
Black adolescents’ motivation to resist the false dichotomy between mathematics achievement and racial identity19
Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness19
Prior math achievement and inventive production predict learning from productive failure18
Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment17
Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity16
Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries16
Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony16
Hierarchical event segmentation of episodic memory in virtual reality15
No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details14
Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance14
Effects of described demonstrator ability on brain and behavior when learning from others14
An fMRI study on the generalization of motor learning after brain actuated supernumerary robot training13
A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents13
Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking13
Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms13
Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics13
Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement12
The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms12
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood12
A systematic review of AI-driven intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in K-12 education11
Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans11
Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning11
Learning and navigating digitally rendered haptic spatial layouts11
On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education10
Smartphone-based study reminders can be a double-edged sword10
Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions10
Speed and accuracy instructions affect two aspects of skill learning differently10
Publisher Correction: The representational instability in the generalization of fear learning10
Household- and school-level parental education and academic self-concept development in elementary school9
Utilizing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development and biological aging across the lifespan9
Publisher Correction: The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts9
A transient memory lapse in humans 1–3 h after training9
Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS9
Quick balance skill improvement after short-term training with error amplification feedback for older adults9
Evaluating large language models for criterion-based grading from agreement to consistency8
Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics8
The effect of low-intensity exercise on emotional and cognitive engagement in the classroom8
Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation8
Long-term cognitive and neurophysiological effects of mental rotation training8
Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?8
The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal8
A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement8
Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential8
Feature versus object in interpreting working memory capacity8
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance8
Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions8
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers7
Generalization of procedural motor sequence learning after a single practice trial7
The impacts of a high-school art-based program on academic achievements, creativity, and creative behaviors7
Effects of different AI-driven Chatbot feedback on learning outcomes and brain activity6
Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students6
A meta-analysis showing improved cognitive performance in healthy young adults with transcranial alternating current stimulation6
Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice6
Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment6
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning6
The gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India5
Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory5
Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa5
Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts5
Dynamic brain networks in spontaneous gestural communication5
Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation5
The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension5
Directed information flow during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition dissociated skill level and medical simulation technology5
Evidence for a competitive relationship between executive functions and statistical learning5
Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception5
Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people4
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children4
Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder4
Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach4
High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults4
Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness4
Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers4
Relation of life sciences students’ metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection4
Divergent effects of mindsets on performance trajectories4
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in education4
Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education4
Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment4
Inter-brain coupling reflects disciplinary differences in real-world classroom learning4
On the promise of personalized learning for educational equity4
Genetics of cognitive performance, education and learning: from research to policy?4
Evidence based approaches for enhancing vocational education worldwide4
Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training4
Understanding mechanisms of generalization following locomotor adaptation3
Measuring and forecasting progress in education: what about early childhood?3
Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training3
Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality3
Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence3
Longitudinal markers of cognitive procedural learning in fronto-striatal circuits and putative effects of a BDNF plasticity-related variant3
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status3
Author Correction: Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers3
A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers3
Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills3
Shifting the mindset culture to address global educational disparities3
An ecological approach to understanding transitions and tensions in complex learning contexts3
Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning3
Longitudinal changes in cortical responses to letter-speech sound stimuli in 8–11 year-old children3
Spatial thinking as the missing piece in mathematics curricula3
Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia3
Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions2
Using a willingness to wait design to assess how readers value text2
A dual-process model for cognitive training2
Multiple timescales of learning indicated by changes in evidence-accumulation processes during perceptual decision-making2
The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension2
Faster implicit motor sequence learning of new sequences compatible in terms of movement transitions2
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
Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality2
Enhancing children’s numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration2
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain2
A qualitative systematic review on AI empowered self-regulated learning in higher education2
Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance2
Protection of savings by reducing the salience of opposing errors2
A working memory dependent dual process model of the testing effect2
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions2
Associations of adolescent menstrual symptoms with school absences and educational attainment: analysis of a prospective cohort study2
Dissecting the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis towards resilience versus susceptibility to stress-related mood disorders2
Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets2
Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners2
Brief memory reactivations induce learning in the numeric domain2
Cerebellar interpositus nucleus exhibits time-dependent errors and predictive responses2
Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep2
A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognitive functions2
“You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking)2
Overemphasizing individual differences and overlooking systemic factors reinforces educational inequality2
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