| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind” ? | Cognition | 1985 | 6,234 |
| 2 | Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex | Cognition | 1994 | 5,078 |
| 3 | Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception | Cognition | 1983 | 4,989 |
| 4 | Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis | Cognition | 1988 | 3,538 |
| 5 | The motor theory of speech perception revised | Cognition | 1985 | 2,645 |
| 6 | The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task | Cognition | 1989 | 2,430 |
| 7 | Towards a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness: basic evidence and a workspace framework | Cognition | 2001 | 1,941 |
| 8 | Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies | Cognition | 1998 | 1,930 |
| 9 | Phonological recoding and self-teaching: sine qua non of reading acquisition | Cognition | 1995 | 1,847 |
| 10 | Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language | Cognition | 2004 | 1,839 |
| 11 | Referring as a collaborative process | Cognition | 1986 | 1,727 |
| 12 | Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of starting small | Cognition | 1993 | 1,663 |
| 13 | Varieties of numerical abilities | Cognition | 1992 | 1,638 |
| 14 | Time-locked multiregional retroactivation: A systems-level proposal for the neural substrates of recall and recognition | Cognition | 1989 | 1,626 |
| 15 | The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components | Cognition | 2004 | 1,622 |
| 16 | Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach | Cognition | 1998 | 1,609 |
| 17 | Functional parallelism in spoken word-recognition | Cognition | 1987 | 1,501 |
| 18 | Flashbulb memories | Cognition | 1977 | 1,498 |
| 19 | Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of “theory of mind” in story comprehension | Cognition | 1995 | 1,462 |
| 20 | On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition | Cognition | 1988 | 1,414 |
| 21 | Newborns' preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline | Cognition | 1991 | 1,412 |
| 22 | Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model | Cognition | 2004 | 1,391 |
| 23 | Expectation-based syntactic comprehension | Cognition | 2008 | 1,352 |
| 24 | Preverbal and verbal counting and computation | Cognition | 1992 | 1,300 |
| 25 | A precursor of language acquisition in young infants | Cognition | 1988 | 1,279 |
| 26 | Parts of recognition | Cognition | 1984 | 1,268 |
| 27 | Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors | Cognition | 2000 | 1,267 |
| 28 | The relationship between cognition and action: performance of children 312–7 years old on a stroop- like day-night test | Cognition | 1994 | 1,232 |
| 29 | The temporal structure of spoken language understanding | Cognition | 1980 | 1,223 |
| 30 | A cognitive developmental approach to morality: investigating the psychopath | Cognition | 1995 | 1,219 |
| 31 | Incremental interpretation at verbs: restricting the domain of subsequent reference | Cognition | 1999 | 1,206 |
| 32 | Large number discrimination in 6-month-old infants | Cognition | 2000 | 1,181 |
| 33 | Monitoring and self-repair in speech | Cognition | 1983 | 1,169 |
| 34 | Reason-based choice | Cognition | 1993 | 1,151 |
| 35 | The faculty of language: what's special about it? | Cognition | 2005 | 1,143 |
| 36 | Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age | Cognition | 1995 | 1,130 |
| 37 | Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults | Cognition | 1999 | 1,111 |
| 38 | A purely geometric module in the rat's spatial representation | Cognition | 1986 | 1,078 |
| 39 | Autism: beyond “theory of mind” | Cognition | 1994 | 1,075 |
| 40 | Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty | Cognition | 1996 | 1,065 |
| 41 | Categories and induction in young children | Cognition | 1986 | 1,057 |
| 42 | The sausage machine: A new two-stage parsing model | Cognition | 1978 | 1,038 |
| 43 | Does awareness of speech as a sequence of phones arise spontaneously? | Cognition | 1979 | 1,036 |
| 44 | Objects and attention: the state of the art | Cognition | 2001 | 1,026 |
| 45 | Children's understanding of counting | Cognition | 1990 | 1,016 |
| 46 | Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination | Cognition | 2002 | 909 |
| 47 | Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning | Cognition | 2019 | 892 |
| 48 | Do young children have adult syntactic competence? | Cognition | 2000 | 889 |
| 49 | Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal | Cognition | 1999 | 878 |
| 50 | A spreading-activation theory of lemma retrieval in speaking | Cognition | 1992 | 873 |
