| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Finding Structure in Time | Cognitive Science | 1990 | 6,281 |
| 2 | Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning | Cognitive Science | 1988 | 4,165 |
| 3 | Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices* | Cognitive Science | 1981 | 3,767 |
| 4 | Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy* | Cognitive Science | 1983 | 3,384 |
| 5 | A Learning Algorithm for Boltzmann Machines* | Cognitive Science | 1985 | 2,437 |
| 6 | Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words | Cognitive Science | 1987 | 2,385 |
| 7 | Self-Explanations: How Students Study and Use Examples in Learning to Solve Problems | Cognitive Science | 1989 | 1,427 |
| 8 | Toward a Theory of Intrinsically Motivating Instruction* | Cognitive Science | 1981 | 1,296 |
| 9 | Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition | Cognitive Science | 1988 | 1,155 |
| 10 | Maturational Constraints on Language Learning | Cognitive Science | 1990 | 1,139 |
| 11 | Competitive Learning: From Interactive Activation to Adaptive Resonance | Cognitive Science | 1987 | 1,115 |
| 12 | Physical Symbol Systems* | Cognitive Science | 1980 | 1,086 |
| 13 | Connectionist Models and Their Properties | Cognitive Science | 1982 | 1,060 |
| 14 | Eliciting Self-Explanations Improves Understanding | Cognitive Science | 1994 | 1,023 |
| 15 | Forward Models: Supervised Learning with a Distal Teacher | Cognitive Science | 1992 | 999 |
| 16 | How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds | Cognitive Science | 1995 | 973 |
| 17 | Contributing to Discourse | Cognitive Science | 1989 | 933 |
| 18 | A Cognitive Model of Planning* | Cognitive Science | 1979 | 913 |
| 19 | Conceptual Integration Networks | Cognitive Science | 1998 | 895 |
| 20 | Analogical Mapping by Constraint Satisfaction | Cognitive Science | 1989 | 892 |
| 21 | On Distinguishing Epistemic from Pragmatic Action | Cognitive Science | 1994 | 872 |
| 22 | The Large-Scale Structure of Semantic Networks: Statistical Analyses and a Model of Semantic Growth | Cognitive Science | 2005 | 872 |
| 23 | An Overview of the KL-ONE Knowledge Representation System* | Cognitive Science | 1985 | 840 |
| 24 | Diagnostic Models for Procedural Bugs in Basic Mathematical Skills* | Cognitive Science | 1978 | 809 |
| 25 | Feature Discovery by Competitive Learning* | Cognitive Science | 1985 | 797 |
| 26 | Dual Space Search During Scientific Reasoning | Cognitive Science | 1988 | 786 |
| 27 | Principles of Object Perception | Cognitive Science | 1990 | 769 |
| 28 | Representations in Distributed Cognitive Tasks | Cognitive Science | 1994 | 755 |
| 29 | User Modeling via Stereotypes* | Cognitive Science | 1979 | 651 |
| 30 | The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth | Cognitive Science | 2002 | 630 |
| 31 | An Overview of KRL, a Knowledge Representation Language | Cognitive Science | 1977 | 624 |
| 32 | An Activation-Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval | Cognitive Science | 2005 | 609 |
| 33 | The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System | Cognitive Science | 1980 | 593 |
| 34 | With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time | Cognitive Science | 2006 | 593 |
| 35 | Modeling Spatial Knowledge* | Cognitive Science | 1978 | 539 |
| 36 | The Nature of External Representations in Problem Solving | Cognitive Science | 1997 | 539 |
| 37 | Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics | Cognitive Science | 2010 | 539 |
| 38 | A Taxonomy of Part-Whole Relations | Cognitive Science | 1987 | 529 |
| 39 | Mental Models in Cognitive Science | Cognitive Science | 1980 | 514 |
| 40 | Learning from human tutoring | Cognitive Science | 2001 | 501 |
| 41 | Controlled & automatic processing: behavior, theory, and biological mechanisms | Cognitive Science | 2003 | 486 |
| 42 | Eliciting self-explanations improves understanding, | Cognitive Science | 1994 | 478 |
| 43 | Learning from Worked-Out Examples: A Study on Individual Differences | Cognitive Science | 1997 | 477 |
| 44 | Coherence and Coreference* | Cognitive Science | 1979 | 473 |
| 45 | Pronouns, Names, and the Centering of Attention in Discourse | Cognitive Science | 1993 | 467 |
| 46 | An effective metacognitive strategy: learning by doing and explaining with a computer-based Cognitive Tutor | Cognitive Science | 2002 | 461 |
| 47 | A Temporal Logic for Reasoning about Processes and Plans* | Cognitive Science | 1982 | 452 |
| 48 | Looking To Understand: The Coupling Between Speakers' and Listeners' Eye Movements and Its Relationship to Discourse Comprehension | Cognitive Science | 2005 | 438 |
| 49 | Simulating a Skilled Typist: A Study of Skilled Cognitive-Motor Performance | Cognitive Science | 1982 | 435 |
| 50 | Constraints Children Place on Word Meanings | Cognitive Science | 1990 | 434 |
