Most cited papers in Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
What are the most cited papers in Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function?
The most cited paper in Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function is "The Process of Education" (Jerome S. Bruner, Robert A. Lufburrow, 1960), with 4,468 citations. Next come "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions" (4,052) and "DISCONNEXION SYNDROMES IN ANIMALS AND MAN" (3,430).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 785 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Process of Education Jerome S. Bruner, Robert A. Lufburrow · American Journal of Physics | 31 Dec 1960 | 4,468 |
| 2 | Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions Jaak Panksepp | 1998 | 4,052 |
| 3 | DISCONNEXION SYNDROMES IN ANIMALS AND MAN Norman Geschwind · Brain | 1965 | 3,430 |
| 4 | Human memory : theory and practice Alan Baddeley | 1990 | 3,037 |
| 5 | Neuropsychological assessment, 3rd ed. Muriel D. Lezak | 1995 | 2,827 |
| 6 | Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity James C. Kaufman, Ronald A. Beghetto · Review of General Psychology | Mar 2009 | 2,650 |
| 7 | Design-Based Research: Putting a Stake in the Ground Sasha Alexander Barab, Kurt D. Squire · Journal of the Learning Sciences | 2004 | 2,610 |
| 8 | How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain. Lisa Feldman Barrett | 2017 | 2,356 |
| 9 | Attention And Cognitive Control 1 Michael I. Posner, Charles R. R. Snyder | 5 Mar 2024 | 2,320 |
| 10 | A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition. F. Gregory Ashby, Alice M. Isen, And U. Turken · Psychological Review | 1999 | 2,211 |
| 11 | Social psychology of creativity: A consensual assessment technique. Teresa M. Amabile · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Nov 1982 | 2,173 |
| 12 | Positive education: positive psychology and classroom interventions Martin E. P. Seligman, Randal M. Ernst, Jane E. Gillham et al. · Oxford Review of Education | 27 May 2009 | 2,112 |
| 13 | Dual coding theory and education James Matthew Clark, Allan Paivio · Educational Psychology Review | Sep 1991 | 2,106 |
| 14 | Self comes to mind : constructing the conscious brain António R. Damásio | 2010 | 1,956 |
| 15 | The intelligence of emotional intelligence John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey · Intelligence | Oct 1993 | 1,953 |
| 16 | Intellectual Evolution from Adolescence to Adulthood Jean Piaget · Human Development | 18 Dec 2009 | 1,889 |
| 17 | Are theories of learning necessary? B. F. Skinner · Psychological Review | 1950 | 1,808 |
| 18 | Why Isn't Creativity More Important to Educational Psychologists? Potentials, Pitfalls, and Future Directions in Creativity Research Jonathan A. Plucker, Ronald A. Beghetto, Gayle T. Dow · Educational Psychologist | 12 May 2004 | 1,788 |
| 19 | Memory and the Brain Larry R. Squire · Elsevier eBooks | 1986 | 1,780 |
| 20 | Creativity, divergent thinking, and openness to experience. Robert R. McCrae · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Jun 1987 | 1,714 |
| 21 | Creativity syndrome: Integration, application, and innovation. Michael D. Mumford, Sigrid B. Gustafson · Psychological Bulletin | 1988 | 1,711 |
| 22 | Cognitive load during problem solving: Effects on learning John Sweller · Cognitive Science | Jun 1988 | 1,687 |
| 23 | Synchronization of Cortical Activity and its Putative Role in Information Processing and Learning W. Singer · Annual Review of Physiology | Oct 1993 | 1,668 |
| 24 | The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory Chai Meei Tyng, Hafeez Ullah Amin, Mohamad Naufal Mohamad Saad et al. · Frontiers in Psychology | 23 Aug 2017 | 1,538 |
| 25 | Neuroscience: Exploring the brain Isaac K. Wood · Journal of Child and Family Studies | Sep 1996 | 1,529 |
| 26 | TEST REVIEW: Dean C. Delis, Edith Kaplan & Joel H. Kramer, Delis Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS), The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX, 2001. $415.00 (complete kit) Adam W. Shunk, Andrew S. Davis, Raymond S. Dean · Applied Neuropsychology | Dec 2006 | 1,528 |
| 27 | Placebo and Opioid Analgesia-- Imaging a Shared Neuronal Network Predrag Petrović, Eija Anneli Kalso, Karl Magnus Petersson et al. · Science | Mar 2002 | 1,498 |
| 28 | THE ACT OF DISCOVERY Jerome S. Bruner | 27 Sep 2006 | 1,458 |
| 29 | We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education Mary Helen Immordino‐Yang, António R. Damásio · Mind Brain and Education | Mar 2007 | 1,438 |
| 30 | The Cognitive Unconscious John F. Kihlstrom · Science | 18 Sep 1987 | 1,391 |
| 31 | NEUROPHENOMENOLOGY A Methodological Remedy for the Hard Problem Francisco J. Varela · Journal of Consciousness Studies | 1996 | 1,370 |
| 32 | Mental imagery in associative learning and memory. Allan Paivio · Psychological Review | May 1969 | 1,369 |
| 33 | Becoming a strategic reader Scott G. Paris, Marjorie Youmans Lipson, Karen K. Wixson · Contemporary Educational Psychology | Jul 1983 | 1,362 |
| 34 | A new framework for understanding cognition and affect in writing. John R. Hayes | 1996 | 1,337 |
| 35 | Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development Alan S. Unis · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Nov 1996 | 1,336 |
| 36 | Attention and brain function Berry Wijers · Acta Psychologica | Jul 1995 | 1,318 |
| 37 | Society, Culture, and Person: A Systems View of Creativity Mihály Csíkszentmihályi | 2014 | 1,305 |
| 38 | Executive functions and achievements in school: Shifting, updating, inhibition, and working memory Helen St Clair‐Thompson, Susan Elizabeth Gathercole · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | 20 Sep 2005 | 1,289 |
| 39 | Interactions between number and space in parietal cortex Edward M. Hubbard, Manuela Piazza, Philippe Pinel et al. · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Jun 2005 | 1,272 |
| 40 | The Self and Its Brain Karl Raimund Popper, John Carew Eccles · Revista de filosofía | 1977 | 1,240 |
| 41 | In Praise of Convergent Thinking Arthur J. Cropley · Creativity Research Journal | Jul 2006 | 1,227 |
| 42 | Neural reuse: A fundamental organizational principle of the brain Michael L. Anderson · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Aug 2010 | 1,224 |
| 43 | Education and thinking: The role of knowledge. Robert A. Glaser · American Psychologist | Feb 1984 | 1,220 |
| 44 | Event-related potentials in clinical research: Guidelines for eliciting, recording, and quantifying mismatch negativity, P300, and N400 Connie C. Duncan, Robert J. Barry, John F. Connolly et al. · Clinical Neurophysiology | Oct 2009 | 1,219 |
| 45 | Handbook of neuropsychology Paul Eling · Acta Psychologica | Nov 1993 | 1,195 |
| 46 | The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation Stephen W. Porges | 25 Apr 2011 | 1,195 |
| 47 | Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity and What They Tell Us About Controlled Attention, General Fluid Intelligence, and Functions of the Prefrontal Cortex Randall W Engle, Michael J. Kane, Stephen W. Tuholski · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 13 Apr 1999 | 1,192 |
| 48 | Investing in creativity. Robert J. Sternberg, Todd Lubart · American Psychologist | Jul 1996 | 1,177 |
| 49 | Specific hungers and poison avoidance as adaptive specializations of learning. Paul N. Rozin, James W. Kalat · Psychological Review | 1971 | 1,168 |
| 50 | The neurosciences. Fourth study program John Russell Hughes · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology | Aug 1980 | 1,166 |
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