OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Research-Principles and Implications is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news	127
Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces	78
Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind	70
Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society	49
Can corrections spread misinformation to new audiences? Testing for the elusive familiarity backfire effect	48
The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect	45
Face mask type affects audiovisual speech intelligibility and subjective listening effort in young and older adults	44
Olfactory-colour crossmodal correspondences in art, science, and design	30
Perceived truth of statements and simulated social media postings: an experimental investigation of source credibility, repeated exposure, and presentation format	29
Beyond the beauty of occlusion: medical masks increase facial attractiveness more than other face coverings	28
Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories for COVID-19 fake news	26
Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation	25
Improving college students’ fact-checking strategies through lateral reading instruction in a general education civics course	22
Face masks disrupt holistic processing and face perception in school-age children	21
Face masks have emotion-dependent dissociable effects on accuracy and confidence in identifying facial expressions of emotion	20
Communication with face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic for adults with hearing loss	20
Updating our understanding of situation awareness in relation to remote operators of autonomous vehicles	20
The scent of attraction and the smell of success: crossmodal influences on person perception	18
The relationship between political affiliation and beliefs about sources of “fake news”	18
Spatial anxiety mediates the sex difference in adult mental rotation test performance	18
Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions	18
How do we measure attention? Using factor analysis to establish construct validity of neuropsychological tests	17
Wine psychology: basic & applied	16
Nevertheless, partisanship persisted: fake news warnings help briefly, but bias returns with time	16
Self-explaining roads: What does visual cognition tell us about designing safer roads?	16

Multisensory inclusive design with sensory substitution	15
Face mask use in healthcare settings: effects on communication, cognition, listening effort and strategies for amelioration	14
Does race impact speech perception? An account of accented speech in two different multilingual locales	14
Uncertainty promotes information-seeking actions, but what information?	14
The impact of predictability on dual-task performance and implications for resource-sharing accounts	14
More than skin deep: about the influence of self-relevant avatars on inhibitory control	13
Ethnoracial disparities in cognition are associated with multiple socioeconomic status-stress pathways	12
The role of analytical reasoning and source credibility on the evaluation of real and fake full-length news articles	12
Adapting implementation science for higher education research: the systematic study of implementing evidence-based practices in college classrooms	12
Resting-state posterior alpha power changes with prolonged exposure in a natural environment	12
A three-factor benefits framework for understanding consumer preference for scented household products: psychological interactions and implications for future development	12
An initial accuracy focus reduces the effect of prior exposure on perceived accuracy of news headlines	11
Gesture during math instruction specifically benefits learners with high visuospatial working memory capacity	11
You don’t have to tell a story! A registered report testing the effectiveness of narrative versus non-narrative misinformation corrections	11
When it all falls down: the relationship between intuitive physics and spatial cognition	11
Why spatial is special in education, learning, and everyday activities	10
Improving cognitive mapping by training for people with a poor sense of direction	10
Impact of mask use on face recognition: an eye-tracking study	10
Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation	10
Masked emotions: Do face mask patterns and colors affect the recognition of emotions?	9
Measuring the effects of misinformation exposure and beliefs on behavioural intentions: a COVID-19 vaccination study	9
Visual communication via the design of food and beverage packaging	9
Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed	9
Individual differences in cognitive offloading: a comparison of intention offloading, pattern copy, and short-term memory capacity	9
Strengthening spatial reasoning: elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development	9
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	9
How the wisdom of crowds, and of the crowd within, are affected by expertise	8
Wisdom of crowds and collective decision-making in a survival situation with complex information integration	8
PTSD is associated with impaired event processing and memory for everyday events	8
Wielding a gun increases judgments of others as holding guns: a randomized controlled trial	8
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia and their relationship with cognitive and emotional executive functions	8
A new measure of group decision-making efficiency	7
The effect of expertise, target usefulness and image structure on visual search	7
Face masks versus sunglasses: limited effects of time and individual differences in the ability to judge facial identity and social traits	7
Do sequential lineups impair underlying discriminability?	7
Individual differences in social intelligence and perception of emotion expression of masked and unmasked faces	7
Collective intelligence in fingerprint analysis	7
Effects of widespread community use of face masks on communication, participation, and quality of life in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
That person is now with or without a mask: how encoding context modulates identity recognition	7
Domain-general cognitive motivation: evidence from economic decision-making	7
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?	7
Face masks affect emotion categorisation, age estimation, recognition, and gender classification from faces	7
Unpacking the Black Box of Translation: A framework for infusing spatial thinking into curricula	7
Improving face identification of mask-wearing individuals	6
Transparent masks reduce the negative impact of opaque masks on understanding emotional states but not on sharing them	6
Visual search behavior and performance in luggage screening: effects of time pressure, automation aid, and target expectancy	6
Typing expertise in a large student population	6
From “satisfaction of search” to “subsequent search misses”: a review of multiple-target search errors across radiology and cognitive science	6
Spatial activity participation in childhood and adolescence: consistency and relations to spatial thinking in adolescence	6
Do concerns about COVID-19 impair sustained attention?	6

How do face masks impact communication amongst deaf/HoH people?	6
Eye movements reflect expertise development in hybrid search	6
The effects of face coverings, own-ethnicity biases, and attitudes on emotion recognition	6
When experience does not promote expertise: security professionals fail to detect low prevalence fake IDs	6
Curiosity and the desire for agency: wait, wait … don’t tell me!	6
Speaking with a KN95 face mask: a within-subjects study on speaker adaptation and strategies to improve intelligibility	6
Serial dependence in the perceptual judgments of radiologists	6
The challenge of cognitive science for medical diagnosis	6
Self-reported mask-related worrying reduces relative avoidance bias toward unmasked faces in individuals with low Covid19 anxiety syndrome	6