| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The case for motivated reasoning. | Psychological Bulletin | 1990 | 6,401 |
| 2 | An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment | Science | 2001 | 3,540 |
| 3 | Source monitoring. | Psychological Bulletin | 1993 | 3,434 |
| 4 | Dissociating the Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Cognitive Control | Science | 2000 | 3,230 |
| 5 | Universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2007 | 2,956 |
| 6 | The symbol grounding problem | Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena | 1990 | 2,909 |
| 7 | Structure and function of the brain serotonin system | Physiological Reviews | 1992 | 2,354 |
| 8 | Instructional manipulation checks: Detecting satisficing to increase statistical power | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 2009 | 2,325 |
| 9 | Beyond mind-reading: multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2006 | 2,083 |
| 10 | The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment | Neuron | 2004 | 2,010 |
| 11 | Learning enhances adult neurogenesis in the hippocampal formation | Nature Neuroscience | 1999 | 1,928 |
| 12 | Neurogenesis in the adult is involved in the formation of trace memories | Nature | 2001 | 1,853 |
| 13 | Conflict monitoring versus selection-for-action in anterior cingulate cortex | Nature | 1999 | 1,820 |
| 14 | First Impressions | Psychological Science | 2006 | 1,773 |
| 15 | The Neural Basis of Error Detection: Conflict Monitoring and the Error-Related Negativity. | Psychological Review | 2004 | 1,517 |
| 16 | Warmth and Competence as Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 2008 | 1,424 |
| 17 | The BIAS map: Behaviors from intergroup affect and stereotypes. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 1,359 |
| 18 | Decision making, the P3, and the locus coeruleus--norepinephrine system. | Psychological Bulletin | 2005 | 1,350 |
| 19 | The functional basis of face evaluation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 1,342 |
| 20 | Proliferation of granule cell precursors in the dentate gyrus of adult monkeys is diminished by stress | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1998 | 1,252 |
| 21 | Is neocortex essentially multisensory? | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2006 | 1,236 |
| 22 | Inferences of Competence from Faces Predict Election Outcomes | Science | 2005 | 1,223 |
| 23 | Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Primates | Science | 1999 | 1,165 |
| 24 | Reason-based choice | Cognition | 1993 | 1,151 |
| 25 | On the reality of cognitive illusions. | Psychological Review | 1996 | 1,097 |
| 26 | Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 2008 | 1,079 |
| 27 | Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex | Nature | 2003 | 1,049 |
| 28 | A Taxonomy of External and Internal Attention | Annual Review of Psychology | 2011 | 1,027 |
| 29 | Contextual correlates of semantic similarity | Language and Cognitive Processes | 1991 | 978 |
| 30 | The binding problem | Current Opinion in Neurobiology | 1996 | 978 |
| 31 | Tracking the Hemodynamic Responses to Reward and Punishment in the Striatum | Journal of Neurophysiology | 2000 | 954 |
| 32 | Using Mechanical Turk to Study Clinical Populations | Clinical Psychological Science | 2013 | 916 |
| 33 | Phenomenal characteristics of memories for perceived and imagined autobiographical events. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1988 | 874 |
| 34 | Raphe unit activity in freely moving cats: Correlation with level of behavioral arousal | Brain Research | 1979 | 863 |
| 35 | Estrogen Stimulates a Transient Increase in the Number of New Neurons in the Dentate Gyrus of the Adult Female Rat | Journal of Neuroscience | 1999 | 854 |
| 36 | Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low | Psychological Science | 2006 | 829 |
| 37 | Independent Coding of Reward Magnitude and Valence in the Human Brain | Journal of Neuroscience | 2004 | 827 |
| 38 | Complex Movements Evoked by Microstimulation of Precentral Cortex | Neuron | 2002 | 817 |
| 39 | The cognitive revolution: a historical perspective | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2003 | 800 |
| 40 | Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment | Cognition | 2008 | 797 |
| 41 | Role of locus coeruleus in attention and behavioral flexibility | Biological Psychiatry | 1999 | 793 |
| 42 | The norm of self-interest. | American Psychologist | 1999 | 789 |
| 43 | A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2002 | 784 |
| 44 | Neural systems for recognition of familiar faces | Neuropsychologia | 2007 | 779 |
| 45 | Coding of visual space by premotor neurons | Science | 1994 | 772 |
| 46 | Neurogenesis may relate to some but not all types of hippocampal‐dependent learning | Hippocampus | 2002 | 762 |
| 47 | Decision making and the avoidance of cognitive demand. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2010 | 742 |
| 48 | Stress and hippocampal neurogenesis | Biological Psychiatry | 1999 | 728 |
| 49 | Hippocampal neurogenesis in adult Old World primates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1999 | 719 |
| 50 | Neurogenesis in the adult brain: death of a dogma | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2000 | 718 |
