Citations that Shaped Minds: Landmark Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Neuroscience and cognitive science are overlapping disciplines focused on the brain. Neuroscience research can be regarded as a branch of biology but is also regarded as an arm of the behavioral sciences for its interplay with psychology, such as with mental health interventions. Cognitive science research focuses on how the brain organizes information through learning and thought processes, also with applications that interplay with psychology. The overarching focus here is on how the human mind processes experiences and information. With landmark studies from Cognitive Science listed here, the following list shares some of the most-cited recent studies from key journals.

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (partially open access with some abstract-only files)

·       Maxime Marvaldi, et al, Anxiety, depression, trauma-related, and sleep disorders among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, July 2021.

·       Lise Eliot, et al, Dump the “dimorphism,” June 2021.

·       Nasrin Abdoli, The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly, Jan 2022.

·       Lisa Diamond and Jenna Alley, Rethinking minority stress, July 2022.

·       Rebecca Alexander, et al, The neuroscience of positive emotions and effect, Feb 2021.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (open access)

·       Suzana Herculano-Houzel, The human brain in numbers, Nov 2009.

·       Harriet Feldman and Karl Friston, Attention, uncertainty, and free-energy, Dec 2010.

·       David Vago and Silbersweig David, Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence, Oct 2012.

·       Stephen Fleming and Hakwan Lau, How to measure metacognition, July 2014.

·       Robin Lester Carhart-Harris, et al, The entropic brain, Feb 2014.

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (primarily open access with some abstract-only files)

·       Felicia Ceban, et al, Fatigue and cognitive impairment in Post-COVID-19 Syndrome, March 2022.

·       Elaine Robertson, et al, Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK household longitudinal study, May 2021.

·       Mario Gennaro Mazza, Persistent psychopathology and neurocognitive impairment in COVID-19 survivors, May 2021.

·       Thor Mertz Schou, et al, Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19, Oct 2021.

Behavioural Brain Research (partially open access with some abstract-only files)

·       C. Domingos, et al, Effects of physical activity on brain function and structure in older adults, March 2021.

·       Meixiang Cheng, et al, AMPK: A bridge between diabetes mellitus and Alzheimer’s disease, Feb 2021. 

·       Georg Northoff and Federico Zilion, Temporo-spatial theory of consciousness, April 2022

·       Samah Labban, et al, Effects of melatonin and resveratrol on recognition memory and passive avoidance performance in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, April 2022.

Behavioral and Brain Functions (open access)

·       Goran Soderlund, et al, The effects of background white noise on memory performance in inattentive school children, Sept 2010.

·       Lutz Jancke and Pascale Sandmann, Music listening while you learn, Jan 2010.

·       Amy Devine, et al, Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety, July 2012.

·       Bhoomika Kar, et al, Cognitive development in children with chronic protein energy malnutrition, July 2008.