| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Finding Structure in Time | Cognitive Science | 1990 | 6,281 |
| 2 | Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind” ? | Cognition | 1985 | 6,234 |
| 3 | Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex | Cognition | 1994 | 5,078 |
| 4 | Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception | Cognition | 1983 | 4,989 |
| 5 | Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning | Cognitive Science | 1988 | 4,165 |
| 6 | Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices* | Cognitive Science | 1981 | 3,767 |
| 7 | Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis | Cognition | 1988 | 3,538 |
| 8 | Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy* | Cognitive Science | 1983 | 3,384 |
| 9 | The motor theory of speech perception revised | Cognition | 1985 | 2,645 |
| 10 | A Learning Algorithm for Boltzmann Machines* | Cognitive Science | 1985 | 2,437 |
| 11 | The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task | Cognition | 1989 | 2,430 |
| 12 | Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words | Cognitive Science | 1987 | 2,385 |
| 13 | Towards a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness: basic evidence and a workspace framework | Cognition | 2001 | 1,941 |
| 14 | Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies | Cognition | 1998 | 1,930 |
| 15 | Phonological recoding and self-teaching: sine qua non of reading acquisition | Cognition | 1995 | 1,847 |
| 16 | Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language | Cognition | 2004 | 1,839 |
| 17 | Referring as a collaborative process | Cognition | 1986 | 1,727 |
| 18 | Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of starting small | Cognition | 1993 | 1,663 |
| 19 | Varieties of numerical abilities | Cognition | 1992 | 1,638 |
| 20 | Time-locked multiregional retroactivation: A systems-level proposal for the neural substrates of recall and recognition | Cognition | 1989 | 1,626 |
| 21 | The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components | Cognition | 2004 | 1,622 |
| 22 | Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach | Cognition | 1998 | 1,609 |
| 23 | Functional parallelism in spoken word-recognition | Cognition | 1987 | 1,501 |
| 24 | Flashbulb memories | Cognition | 1977 | 1,498 |
| 25 | Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of “theory of mind” in story comprehension | Cognition | 1995 | 1,462 |
| 26 | Self-Explanations: How Students Study and Use Examples in Learning to Solve Problems | Cognitive Science | 1989 | 1,427 |
| 27 | On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition | Cognition | 1988 | 1,414 |
| 28 | Newborns' preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline | Cognition | 1991 | 1,412 |
| 29 | Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model | Cognition | 2004 | 1,391 |
| 30 | Expectation-based syntactic comprehension | Cognition | 2008 | 1,352 |
| 31 | Preverbal and verbal counting and computation | Cognition | 1992 | 1,300 |
| 32 | Toward a Theory of Intrinsically Motivating Instruction* | Cognitive Science | 1981 | 1,296 |
| 33 | A precursor of language acquisition in young infants | Cognition | 1988 | 1,279 |
| 34 | Parts of recognition | Cognition | 1984 | 1,268 |
| 35 | Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors | Cognition | 2000 | 1,267 |
| 36 | The relationship between cognition and action: performance of children 312–7 years old on a stroop- like day-night test | Cognition | 1994 | 1,232 |
| 37 | The temporal structure of spoken language understanding | Cognition | 1980 | 1,223 |
| 38 | A cognitive developmental approach to morality: investigating the psychopath | Cognition | 1995 | 1,219 |
| 39 | Incremental interpretation at verbs: restricting the domain of subsequent reference | Cognition | 1999 | 1,206 |
| 40 | Large number discrimination in 6-month-old infants | Cognition | 2000 | 1,181 |
| 41 | Monitoring and self-repair in speech | Cognition | 1983 | 1,169 |
| 42 | Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition | Cognitive Science | 1988 | 1,155 |
| 43 | Reason-based choice | Cognition | 1993 | 1,151 |
| 44 | The faculty of language: what's special about it? | Cognition | 2005 | 1,143 |
| 45 | Maturational Constraints on Language Learning | Cognitive Science | 1990 | 1,139 |
| 46 | Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age | Cognition | 1995 | 1,130 |
| 47 | Competitive Learning: From Interactive Activation to Adaptive Resonance | Cognitive Science | 1987 | 1,115 |
| 48 | Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults | Cognition | 1999 | 1,111 |
| 49 | Physical Symbol Systems* | Cognitive Science | 1980 | 1,086 |
| 50 | A purely geometric module in the rat's spatial representation | Cognition | 1986 | 1,078 |
| 51 | Autism: beyond “theory of mind” | Cognition | 1994 | 1,075 |
| 52 | Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty | Cognition | 1996 | 1,065 |
| 53 | Connectionist Models and Their Properties | Cognitive Science | 1982 | 1,060 |
| 54 | Categories and induction in young children | Cognition | 1986 | 1,057 |
| 55 | The sausage machine: A new two-stage parsing model | Cognition | 1978 | 1,038 |
| 56 | Does awareness of speech as a sequence of phones arise spontaneously? | Cognition | 1979 | 1,036 |
| 57 | Objects and attention: the state of the art | Cognition | 2001 | 1,026 |
| 58 | Eliciting Self-Explanations Improves Understanding | Cognitive Science | 1994 | 1,023 |
| 59 | Children's understanding of counting | Cognition | 1990 | 1,016 |
| 60 | Forward Models: Supervised Learning with a Distal Teacher | Cognitive Science | 1992 | 999 |
| 61 | How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds | Cognitive Science | 1995 | 973 |
| 62 | Contributing to Discourse | Cognitive Science | 1989 | 933 |
| 63 | A Cognitive Model of Planning* | Cognitive Science | 1979 | 913 |
| 64 | Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination | Cognition | 2002 | 909 |
| 65 | Conceptual Integration Networks | Cognitive Science | 1998 | 895 |
| 66 | Analogical Mapping by Constraint Satisfaction | Cognitive Science | 1989 | 892 |
| 67 | Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning | Cognition | 2019 | 892 |
| 68 | Do young children have adult syntactic competence? | Cognition | 2000 | 889 |
| 69 | Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal | Cognition | 1999 | 878 |
| 70 | A spreading-activation theory of lemma retrieval in speaking | Cognition | 1992 | 873 |
| 71 | On Distinguishing Epistemic from Pragmatic Action | Cognitive Science | 1994 | 872 |
| 72 | The Large-Scale Structure of Semantic Networks: Statistical Analyses and a Model of Semantic Growth | Cognitive Science | 2005 | 872 |
| 73 | What some concepts might not be | Cognition | 1983 | 866 |
| 74 | Varieties of developmental dyslexia | Cognition | 1993 | 866 |
| 75 | Do six-month-old infants perceive causality? | Cognition | 1987 | 865 |
| 76 | Shortlist: a connectionist model of continuous speech recognition | Cognition | 1994 | 865 |
| 77 | Visual routines | Cognition | 1984 | 863 |
| 78 | Object permanence in five-month-old infants | Cognition | 1985 | 857 |
| 79 | How direct is visual perception?: Some reflections on Gibson's “ecological approach” | Cognition | 1981 | 854 |
| 80 | Visual statistical learning in infancy: evidence for a domain general learning mechanism | Cognition | 2002 | 854 |
| 81 | Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension | Cognition | 2004 | 845 |
| 82 | An Overview of the KL-ONE Knowledge Representation System* | Cognitive Science | 1985 | 840 |
| 83 | From single to multiple deficit models of developmental disorders | Cognition | 2006 | 836 |
| 84 | Communicative competence and theory of mind in autism: A test of relevance theory | Cognition | 1993 | 829 |
| 85 | Learning to express motion events in English and Korean: The influence of language-specific lexicalization patterns | Cognition | 1991 | 827 |
| 86 | Interaction with context during human sentence processing | Cognition | 1988 | 819 |
| 87 | Bilingualism aids conflict resolution: Evidence from the ANT task | Cognition | 2008 | 817 |
| 88 | Time in the mind: Using space to think about time | Cognition | 2008 | 814 |
| 89 | Diagnostic Models for Procedural Bugs in Basic Mathematical Skills* | Cognitive Science | 1978 | 809 |
| 90 | What is embodiment? A psychometric approach | Cognition | 2008 | 802 |
| 91 | Feature Discovery by Competitive Learning* | Cognitive Science | 1985 | 797 |
| 92 | Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment | Cognition | 2008 | 797 |
| 93 | On the adequacy of prototype theory as a theory of concepts | Cognition | 1981 | 789 |
| 94 | Dual Space Search During Scientific Reasoning | Cognitive Science | 1988 | 786 |
| 95 | Principles of Object Perception | Cognitive Science | 1990 | 769 |
| 96 | Representations in Distributed Cognitive Tasks | Cognitive Science | 1994 | 755 |
| 97 | Initial knowledge: six suggestions | Cognition | 1994 | 755 |
| 98 | Domain-specific reasoning: Social contracts, cheating, and perspective change | Cognition | 1992 | 753 |
| 99 | From communication to language—a psychological perspective | Cognition | 1974 | 752 |
| 100 | Developmental dyscalculia and basic numerical capacities: a study of 8–9-year-old students | Cognition | 2004 | 750 |
