Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?280
Prefrontal cortex drives the flexibility of whole-brain orchestration of cognition168
Editorial Board148
What makes people want more impactful climate policy?135
The cost burden of problematic internet usage125
Aligning brain and behavior119
Neurostimulation to improve cognitive flexibility112
The prediction illusion: perceptual control mechanisms that fool the observer112
How go/no-go training changes behavior: A value-based decision-making perspective99
Precision functional mapping of the subcortex and cerebellum95
How dopamine enables learning from aversion80
Dopaminergic computations for perceptual decisions77
Reinforcement-guided learning in frontal neocortex: emerging computational concepts75
Excessive shopping on the internet: recent trends in compulsive buying-shopping disorder69
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective69
Negative affect related traits and the chasm between self-report and neuroscience69
The evolution of group-mindedness: comparative research on top-down and bottom-up group cooperation in bonobos and chimpanzees66
Is the time’s flow an illusion? — the issue of the temporality of the conscious experience64
Insights into control over cognitive flexibility from studies of task-switching60
Adolescent-to-adult gains in cognitive flexibility are adaptively supported by reward sensitivity, exploration, and neural variability55
Developmental exposure to cannabis compromises dopamine system function and behavior51
Editorial overview: Building and using models of the world49
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review49
How do animals navigate the urban jungle? A review of cognition in urban-adapted animals46
Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses46
Noncortical cognition: integration of information for close-proximity behavioral problem-solving46
‘They deserve it for what they're doing’: dehumanising rhetoric as a facilitator of the recourse to violence against the defenceless45
The vertebrate retina: a window into the evolution of computation in the brain44
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Pluralism in the determination of death42
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts41
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A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use39
The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience39
Curriculum standards and textbook coverage of fractions in high-achieving East-Asian countries and the United States38
Advanced cognition in wild chimpanzees: lessons from observational studies38
Climate change is an intergenerational challenge that requires intergenerationally focused behavioral solutions37
Relating mind-blanking to the content and dynamics of spontaneous thinking37
Wild cognition – linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context36
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization36
What is next for the neurobiology of temperament, personality and psychopathology?36
Using cognitive behavioral therapy as the select treatment approach for problematic Internet usage35
Rejection sensitivity and its relationship to schizotypy and aggression: current status and future directions35
The basolateral amygdala and lateral hypothalamus bias learning towards motivationally significant events35
Elaborating humanness: a direct comparison between mindful and mindless entities34
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls34
Emotions as constituents, predictors and outcomes of dehumanization33
Liberty and the pursuit of science denial33
Processing and transmission of affective touch in the spinal cord32
Cortico-cortical paired-associative stimulation to investigate the plasticity of cortico-cortical visual networks in humans32
Future directions for cognitive neuroscience in psychiatry: recommendations for biomarker design based on recent test re-test reliability work31
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Interacting with agents without a mind: the case for artificial agents30
Habit and climate change29
Corrigendum to ‘On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents’ [Curr Opin Behav Sci, vol 43, February 2022, Pages 118–124]29
Improving precision functional mapping routines with multi-echo fMRI29
Cognitive flexibility training for impact in real-world settings29
Mindful positive emotion regulation as a treatment for addiction: from hedonic pleasure to self-transcendent meaning28
Change is on the horizon: call to action for the study of positive emotion and reward in psychopathology27
Computational theory-driven studies of reinforcement learning and decision-making in addiction: what have we learned?27
Concept formation as a computational cognitive process26
Problematic Internet use (PIU) in youth: a brief literature review of selected topics26
Comparison of the determinants for positive and negative affect proposed by appraisal theories, goal-directed theories, and predictive processing theories26
Physiological effects induced by stimulation of cutaneous sensory nerves, with a focus on oxytocin25
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making25
What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?25
The paradox of pursuing happiness25
The impact of mathematics teachers’ professional competence on instructional quality and students’ mathematics learning outcomes25
How positive affect buffers stress responses24
We need climate change mitigation and climate change mitigation needs the ‘We’: a state-of-the-art review of social identity effects motivating climate change action24
A “thinking animal” in conflict: studying wild elephant cognition in the shadow of anthropogenic change24
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning23
Cognitive flexibility in neurodevelopmental disorders: insights from neuroimaging and neuropsychology23
Rethinking dehumanization, empathy, and burnout in healthcare contexts23
Climate change cognition and education: given no silver bullet for denial, diverse information-hunks increase global warming acceptance23
Social touch — a tool rather than a signal23
Editorial overview: Deep imaging of the individual brain: past, practice, and promise23
How alien species use cognition to discover, handle, taste, and adopt novel foods23
Deep characterization of individual brain-phenotype relations using a multilevel atlas22
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective22
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?22
Cognition in wild lemurs22
The brain bases of regulation of eating behaviors: the role of reward, executive control, and valuation processes, and new paths to propel the field forward21
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors21
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Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees20
Molecular heterogeneity and development of the ventral tegmental area19
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Social cognition in degenerative cerebellar ataxias19
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Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches19
Strepsirrhine movement and navigation: sense and sociality18
Carnal pleasures18
Problematic video-streaming: a short review18
Multi-step planning in the brain18
Imaging the temporal dynamics of brain states with highly sampled fMRI17
The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning17
Constructing value signals for food rewards: determinants and the integration17
Apples and oranges: three criteria for positive emotion typologies17
The visual prefrontal cortex of anthropoids: interaction with temporal cortex in decision making and its role in the making of ‘visual animals’17
A comparative framework of inter-individual coordination and pair-bonding17
Robust capuchin tool use cognition in the wild16
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models16
The role of executive function in shaping reinforcement learning16
Cognitive ecology in the wild — advances and challenges in avian cognition research16
Editorial overview: Positive affect: taxonomies, mechanisms and applications16
Differential profiles of cognitive and behavioral inflexibility in addictive disorders16
Diencephalic modulation of the hippocampus in affective and cognitive behavior16
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions16
Cue-approach training for food behavior16
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?16
On the role of behavioural modes during temporally extended decision-making and their neural substrates15
Does cognitive control have a general stability/flexibility tradeoff problem?15
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger: insights from neuroscience studies and molecular genetics15
Resilience to stress and trauma: a narrative review of neuroimaging research15
Ultrasound neuromodulation: planning and validating treatments15
Designing affective haptic experience for wellness and social communication: where designers need affective neuroscience and psychology15
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?15
Unraveling sequence learning in obsessive–compulsive disorder15
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution15
Shifting attention to orient or avoid: a unifying account of the tail of the striatum and its dopaminergic inputs15
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?15
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function15
Affective touch: a communication channel for social exchange14
Causal investigations into orbitofrontal control of human decision making14
Stress, resilience, and coping resources in the context of war, terror, and migration14
Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos13
The most difficult thing in the world: a sociocultural perspective on putting pro-environmental thoughts into action13
Methods for cerebellar imaging: cerebellar subdivision13
Categorizing the function of positive emotions13
Corrigendum to “Extensive sampling for complete models of individual brains” [Curr. Opin. Behav. Sci. 40 (August) (2021) 45–51]13
Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting13
Corrigendum to: “Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 51(2023) 101277]13
The middle managers: thalamic and cholinergic contributions to coordinating top-down and bottom-up processing12
Exploration of trance states: phenomenology, brain correlates, and clinical applications12
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects12
Quo vadis taxonomies of consistent behavioural patterns: time to change horses?12
The role of worldviews in shaping how people appraise climate change12
The socioeconomics of food hoarding in wild squirrels12
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors12
Psychopathology and positive emotions in daily life11
A push for examining subjective experience in value-based decision-making11
Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization11
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing11
“But why?” Dopamine and causal learning11
Extensive sampling for complete models of individual brains11
The role of agency and communion in dehumanization — an integrative perspective11
A guide to the measurement and interpretation of fMRI test-retest reliability10
Sensorimotor foundations of self-consciousness in utero10
Assessing problematic use of social media: where do we stand and what can be improved?10
Latent learning, cognitive maps, and curiosity10
When does empathy feel good?10
The current status of Cyberbullying research: a short review of the literature10
The dimensionality of neural representations for control10
Psychophysiology and motivated emotion: testing the affective touch hypothesis of C-tactile afferent function10
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change9
Dynamical measures of developing neuroelectric fields in emerging consciousness9
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions9
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Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality9
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?8
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do8
Approach motivation and positive affect8
Problematic usage of the internet and cognition8
The effect of effort on reward prediction error signals in midbrain dopamine neurons8
Integrating problem posing into the mathematics classroom: current advances and future directions of research8
How does selection shape spatial memory in the wild?8
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The ‘Go’s and the ‘No-Go’s of response-inhibition training to food: lessons learned from trials8
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology8
Context-sensitive valuation and learning7
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference7
Climate change mitigation within the Campbell paradigm: doing the right thing for a reason and against all odds7
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage7
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists7
Differentiating self-touch from social touch7
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Pharmacological interventions for Problematic Usage of the Internet (PUI): a narrative review of current progress and future directions7
From the lab to the wild: how can captive studies aid the conservation of kea (Nestor notabilis)?7
Utilizing electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate positive affect7
Wired for social touch: the sense that binds us to others7
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates7
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies7
The role of natural history in animal cognition7
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?7
Ontogeny of the social brain in utero and in infancy: risk factors and resilience in socioemotional development7
Biologically plausible models of cognitive flexibility: merging recurrent neural networks with full-brain dynamics7
The question why and how people differ in personality cannot be answered satisfactorily while neglecting biological approaches7
Nonsynaptic encoding of behavior by neuropeptides7
Temperament according to Jan Strelau’s concept and posttraumatic stress disorder: current status and future perspectives on neurobiological studies6
Probing the role of reward expectancy in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer6
Environmental neuroeconomics: how neuroscience can inform our understanding of human responses to climate change6
Tracking plasticity of individual human brains6
Precision functional mapping of human memory systems6
Editorial overview: Value-based decision making: control, value, and context in action6
Cognitive flexibility across the lifespan: developmental differences in the neural basis of sustained and transient control processes during task switching6
Climate change, behavior, and the possibility of spillover effects: recent advances and future directions6
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans6
Precision estimates of parallel distributed association networks: evidence for domain specialization and implications for evolution and development6
The social brain has a nerve: insights from attachment and autistic phenotypes6
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use6
What is dopamine doing in model-based reinforcement learning?6
Space, the original frontier6
Meaning makes touch affective6
Representations of uncertainty: where art thou?6
Understanding cerebellar cognitive and social functions: methodological challenges and new directions for future transcranial magnetic stimulation studies6
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review5
Food reward and its aberrations in obesity5
Glucocorticoid hormone as regulator and readout of resilience5
Influences of social norms on climate change-related behaviors5
Dopaminergic specializations for flexible behavioral control: linking levels of analysis and functional architectures5
Selection levels on vocal individuality: strategic use or byproduct5
Agency and goal-directed choice5
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights5
Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance5
Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations5
The contextual regulation of goal-directed actions5
What do reinforcement learning models measure? Interpreting model parameters in cognition and neuroscience5
Finding a balance: modulatory effects of positive affect on attentional and cognitive control5
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work5
The interplay between subcortical and prefrontal brain structures in shaping ideological belief formation and updating5
Reinforcement learning and meta-decision-making4
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition4
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning4
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From deep brain phenotyping to functional atlasing4
Theory of Mind in the wild4
Challenges and opportunities of mesoscopic brain mapping with fMRI4
On defining positive affect (PA): considering attitudes toward emotions, measures of PA, and approach motivation4
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace4
Classroom interaction in mathematics: learning of mathematics and learning to participate4
Dopamine in the nucleus accumbens in valence-based learning: is it really important?4
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Neuro-cognitive processes as mediators of psychological treatment effects4
New frontiers for the understanding of aging: the power and possibilities of studying the cerebellum4
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic4
Stress and resilience: associations of stress biomarkers with different conceptualizations of resilience4
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The Intelligence Quotient-math achievement link: evidence from behavioral and biological research4
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