STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the March 2009 launch of a new multidisciplinary journal in the neurosciences - Cognitive Computation. With this addition to its publishing programme, Springer seeks to provide a new platform for the dissemination of research, current practices and future trends in the emerging discipline of cognitive computation.
A quarterly publication, Cognitive Computation will bridge the gap between the life sciences, social sciences, engineering, physical and mathematical sciences and the humanities. The journal will publish cutting-edge articles describing original basic and applied work involving biologically inspired computational accounts of all aspects of natural and artificial cognitive systems. By establishing a forum to bring together different scientific communities, Cognitive Computation will promote an understanding of diverse topics, including those related to perception, action, attention, learning and memory, decision making, language processing, communication, reasoning, problem solving and consciousness aspects of cognition.
Dr. Amir Hussain from the University of Stirling, Scotland, will be the Editor-in-Chief and Dr. Igor Aleksander from Imperial College is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief. The international editorial board includes leading experts from Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Japan, and the USA as well as the United Kingdom, with Dr. John Taylor from King's College, London, serving as Chair of the journal's advisory board.
Springer will publish the journal in both electronic and print formats. All articles will be published online via Online First, a feature that allows authors to bring their work to the attention of their peers at a very early stage of the publication process. All authors, via the Springer Open Choice programme, will have the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.
