| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images | Nature | 1996 | 4,727 |
| 2 | Sparse coding with an overcomplete basis set: A strategy employed by V1? | Vision Research | 1997 | 2,972 |
| 3 | Contour integration by the human visual system: Evidence for a local “association field” | Vision Research | 1993 | 1,549 |
| 4 | Flawed Self-Assessment | Psychological Science in the Public Interest: A Journal of the American Psychological Society | 2004 | 1,419 |
| 5 | Origins of knowledge. | Psychological Review | 1992 | 1,405 |
| 6 | Linked Regularities in the Development and Evolution of Mammalian Brains | Science | 1995 | 1,256 |
| 7 | Sparse coding of sensory inputs | Current Opinion in Neurobiology | 2004 | 1,153 |
| 8 | Translating developmental time across mammalian species | Neuroscience | 2001 | 1,137 |
| 9 | Differential Processing of Objects under Various Viewing Conditions in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex | Neuron | 1999 | 1,104 |
| 10 | What Is the Goal of Sensory Coding? | Neural Computation | 1994 | 1,039 |
| 11 | The Medial Extended Amygdala in Male Reproductive Behavior A Node in the Mammalian Social Behavior Network | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 1999 | 1,037 |
| 12 | Happiness unpacked: Positive emotions increase life satisfaction by building resilience. | Emotion | 2009 | 987 |
| 13 | Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2004 | 946 |
| 14 | Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1999 | 929 |
| 15 | The experience of regret: What, when, and why. | Psychological Review | 1995 | 882 |
| 16 | Exploratory Behavior in the Development of Perceiving, Acting, and the Acquiring of Knowledge | Annual Review of Psychology | 1988 | 862 |
| 17 | Visual statistical learning in infancy: evidence for a domain general learning mechanism | Cognition | 2002 | 854 |
| 18 | Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts | Cognitive Psychology | 1996 | 799 |
| 19 | An exploratory study of musical emotions and psychophysiology. | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology | 1997 | 711 |
| 20 | Language as shaped by the brain | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2008 | 702 |
| 21 | Motion extrapolation in catching | Nature | 1994 | 684 |
| 22 | A geometric process for spatial reorientation in young children | Nature | 1994 | 628 |
| 23 | Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2011 | 599 |
| 24 | Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 572 |
| 25 | See what you want to see: Motivational influences on visual perception. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2006 | 571 |
| 26 | Modularity and development: the case of spatial reorientation | Cognition | 1996 | 530 |
| 27 | Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning | Psychological Science | 2008 | 491 |
| 28 | Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | 2008 | 483 |
| 29 | Liking Is for Doing: The Effects of Goal Pursuit on Automatic Evaluation. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2004 | 453 |
| 30 | From The Cover: Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 453 |
| 31 | Looking To Understand: The Coupling Between Speakers' and Listeners' Eye Movements and Its Relationship to Discourse Comprehension | Cognitive Science | 2005 | 438 |
| 32 | How Close Are We to Understanding V1? | Neural Computation | 2005 | 411 |
| 33 | Eye Movements and Problem Solving | Psychological Science | 2003 | 395 |
| 34 | The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2016 | 379 |
| 35 | The mismeasure of morals: Antisocial personality traits predict utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas | Cognition | 2011 | 373 |
| 36 | Modality-Constrained Statistical Learning of Tactile, Visual, and Auditory Sequences. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition | 2005 | 370 |
| 37 | Persistent Fear Responses in Rhesus Monkeys to the Optical Stimulus of "Looming" | Science | 1962 | 367 |
| 38 | Experience and sentence processing: Statistical learning and relative clause comprehension | Cognitive Psychology | 2009 | 360 |
| 39 | The relative relativity of material and experiential purchases. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2010 | 350 |
| 40 | Ambiguity and Self-Evaluation: The Role of Idiosyncratic Trait Definitions in Self-Serving Assessments of Ability | | 2002 | 344 |
| 41 | Natural image statistics and efficient coding | Network: Computation in Neural Systems | 1996 | 340 |
| 42 | Life-span dendritic and spine changes in areas 10 and 18 of human cortex: A quantitative golgi study | Journal of Comparative Neurology | 1997 | 335 |
| 43 | Oculomotor mechanisms activated by imagery and memory: eye movements to absent objects | Psychological Research | 2001 | 327 |
| 44 | Tuning in to musical rhythms: Infants learn more readily than adults | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 325 |
| 45 | Categorical effects in the perception of faces | Cognition | 1995 | 324 |
| 46 | Language evolution: consensus and controversies | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2003 | 321 |
| 47 | The change from visible to invisible: | Perception & Psychophysics | 1969 | 316 |
| 48 | Representation, space and Hollywood Squares: looking at things that aren't there anymore | Cognition | 2000 | 312 |
| 49 | Spatiotemporal continuity, smoothness of motion and object identity in infancy | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1995 | 300 |
| 50 | Predicting Cognitive Control From Preschool to Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood | Psychological Science | 2006 | 300 |
