OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Research-Principles and Implications is 5. 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
Object recognition ability predicts category learning with medical images	143
When less is not more: the effect of transparent masks on facial attractiveness judgment	87
Combatting rumors around the French election: the memorability and effectiveness of fact-checking articles	41
The hidden arrow in the FedEx logo: Do we really unconsciously “see” it?	35
The psychological reality of the learned “p < .05” boundary	35
The effects of testing the relationships among relational concepts	30
Correction: The role of leadership level in college students’ facial emotion recognition: evidence from event-related potential analysis	29
Effect of multi-refresh-rate method on user experience: sustained attention and inattentional blindness	29
That person is now with or without a mask: how encoding context modulates identity recognition	28
Individual differences in emerging adults’ spatial abilities: What role do affective factors play?	28
Cognitive perspectives on maintaining physicians’ medical expertise: I. Reimagining Maintenance of Certification to promote lifelong learning	27
Influence of protective clothing and masks on facial trustworthiness in an investment game: insights from a Chinese population study	27
Cross-cultural differences in visuo-spatial processing and the culture-fairness of visuo-spatial intelligence tests: an integrative review and a model for matrices tasks	25
Intrinsic motivation and false feedback reduce the low prevalence effect	24
Numerate people are less likely to be biased by regular science reporting: the critical roles of scientific reasoning and causal misunderstanding	23
Making decisions about health information on social media: a mouse-tracking study	23
A direct comparison of sound and vibration as sources of stimulation for a sensory substitution glove	22
The impact of AI errors in a human-in-the-loop process	22
Assessing the relationship between delay discounting and decisions to engage in various protective behaviors during COVID-19	21
Evaluating convergence between two data visualization literacy assessments	20
Audience immersion: validating attentional and physiological measures against self-report	19
Take a load off: examining partial and complete cognitive offloading of medication information	19
Suspect identification accuracy from lineups, in the lab and in the field	19
Perceptions of artificial intelligence system's aptitude to judge morality and competence amidst the rise of Chatbots	17
Cognitive perspectives on maintaining physicians’ medical expertise: III. Strengths and weaknesses of self-assessment	17

Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation	16
Anger, race, and the neurocognition of threat: attention, inhibition, and error processing during a weapon identification task	16
Typing expertise in a large student population	15
The perception of intonational and emotional speech prosody produced with and without a face mask: an exploratory individual differences study	14
Cellphone separation modulates the effects of working memory load on ex-Gaussian parameters of choice reaction time	14
Face masks and fake masks: the effect of real and superimposed masks on face matching with super-recognisers, typical observers, and algorithms	13
How one block of trials influences the next: persistent effects of disease prevalence and feedback on decisions about images of skin lesions in a large online study	13
Transparency improves the accuracy of automation use, but automation confidence information does not	12
Time and video speed perception: a comprehensive investigation of the relation between estimated video speed, clip duration and original duration	12
Different facets of age perception in people with developmental prosopagnosia and “super-recognisers”	12
Beyond minutiae: inferring missing details from global structure in fingerprints	12
How sign language expertise can influence the effects of face masks on non-linguistic characteristics	12
The role of focus back effort in the relationships among motivation, interest, and mind wandering: an individual difference perspective	11
The impact of wearing a heart rate monitoring wristband on museum visitors’ memory and emotions: a randomized controlled trial	11
Transparent masks reduce the negative impact of opaque masks on understanding emotional states but not on sharing them	11
Testing landmark-specific effects on route navigation in an ecologically valid setting: a simulated driving study	11
Correction: Transparent masks reduce the negative impact of opaque masks on understanding emotional states but not on sharing them	10
Individual differences in navigation skill: towards reliable and valid measures	10
How do face masks impact communication amongst deaf/HoH people?	9
Recalling fake news during real news corrections can impair or enhance memory updating: the role of recollection-based retrieval	9
Examining post-error performance in a complex multitasking environment	9
Improving auditory alarm sensitivity during simulated aeronautical decision-making: the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation combined with computerized working memory training	9
Machine translation: Turkish–English bilingual speakers’ accuracy detection of evidentiality and preference of MT	9
Online Contingent Attention Training (OCAT): transfer effects to cognitive biases, rumination, and anxiety symptoms from two proof-of-principle studies	9
Fluid intelligence but not need for cognition is associated with attitude change in response to the correction of misinformation	9
Perception of direct gaze in a video-conference setting: the effects of position and size	8
Effects of task structure and confirmation bias in alternative hypotheses evaluation	8
Binocular vs. monocular 3D cues in multiple object tracking: expertise differences between soccer players and non-athletes	8
Warning signals only support the first action in a sequence	8
Two face masks are better than one: congruency effects in face matching	8
Narrative visualizations: Depicting accumulating risks and increasing trust in data	8
Developing a novel measure of non-rigid, ductile spatial skill	8
Standard experimental paradigm designs and data exclusion practices in cognitive psychology can inadvertently introduce systematic “shadow” biases in participant samples	8
Impact of mask use on face recognition: an eye-tracking study	8
Using objective measures to examine the effect of suspect-filler similarity on eyewitness identification performance - Final Registered Report	7
Curiosity and the desire for agency: wait, wait … don’t tell me!	7
Preregistered test of whether a virtual nose reduces cybersickness	7
Hip fracture or not? The reversed prevalence effect among non-experts’ diagnosis	7
Spotting missing or wanted people: racial biases in prospective person memory	7
Can humanoid robots be used as a cognitive offloading tool?	7
How does face mask in COVID-19 pandemic disrupt face learning and recognition in adults with autism spectrum disorder?	7
Anecdotes impact medical decisions even when presented with statistical information or decision aids	7
Grammatical structures of emoji in Japanese-language text conversations	7
Coping with high advertising exposure: a source-monitoring perspective	7
Misinformation reminders enhance belief updating and memory for corrections: the role of attention during encoding revealed by eye tracking	7
The impact of face coverings on audio-visual contributions to communication with conversational speech	7
Face masks versus sunglasses: limited effects of time and individual differences in the ability to judge facial identity and social traits	6
Probing mental representations of space through sketch mapping: a scoping review	6
Restricting the distribution of visual attention reduces cybersickness	6
How do students reason about statistical sampling with computer simulations? An integrative review from a grounded cognition perspective	6

Statistical feature training improves fingerprint-matching accuracy in novices and professional fingerprint examiners	6
Wakeful resting and listening to music contrast their effects on verbal long-term memory in dependence on word concreteness	6
Effects of prevalence and feedback in the identification of blast cells in peripheral blood: expert and novice observers	6
A recipe for dyadic collective intelligence for well-structured tasks: mix equal parts cognitive ability and confidence plus a pinch of social sensitivity	6
The interactive functional biases of manual, language and attention systems	6
Aligning visual imagery to the operator improves geospatial situation awareness in a single-display 360-degree periscope concept	6
The effect of stress on prospective memory in robotic command and control	6
Icon arrays reduce concern over COVID-19 vaccine side effects: a randomized control study	6
Investigating the different domains of environmental knowledge acquired from virtual navigation and their relationship to cognitive factors and wayfinding inclinations	6
Older adults’ recognition of medical terminology in hospital noise	6
Non-monotonic developmental trend of holistic processing in visual expertise: the case of Chinese character recognition	6
When there is noise on Sherlock Holmes: mind wandering increases with perceptual processing difficulty during reading and listening	5
Seeing the truck, but missing the cyclist: effects of blur on duration thresholds for road hazard detection	5
A three-factor benefits framework for understanding consumer preference for scented household products: psychological interactions and implications for future development	5
Memory for diverse faces in a racially attentive context	5
Cue relevance drives early quitting in visual search	5
Interaction of prior category knowledge and novel statistical patterns during visual search for real-world objects	5
Using a picture (or a thousand words) for supporting spatial knowledge of a complex virtual environment	5
The effect of task load, information reliability and interdependency on anticipation performance	5
Proneness to false memory generation predicts pseudoscientific belief endorsement	5
To see or not to see: the parallel processing of self-relevance and facial expressions	5
Distinctive Sans Forgetica font does not benefit memory accuracy in the DRM paradigm	5
Are estimates of faces’ ages less accurate when they wear sunglasses or face masks and do these disguises make it harder to later recognise the faces when undisguised?	5
Errors in visual search: Are they stochastic or deterministic?	5
Influences of early diagnostic suggestions on clinical reasoning	5