Neuropsychology calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Section on the Topic of Dialogues With Neuroscience: Memory for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

September 17, 2012: abstract submission deadline

December 31, 2012: manuscript submission deadline

Neuroscience has long informed the psychology of memory. The paradigm example of this crosstalk is the discovery that damage to the hippocampus impairs long-term declarative memory but leaves other forms of learning and memory intact. This classic finding has motivated decades of research in cognitive neuroscience, inspired the multiple memory systems theory, and cemented the textbook distinction between declarative vs. non-declarative memory.

While this framework has been very fruitful in advancing an understanding of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) memory system, neuroimaging studies of the intact human brain over the past decade have begun revealing a broader role for the hippocampus in many aspects of cognition beyond declarative memory, including reward, decision making, attention, perception, navigation, incidental learning, prediction, action, and working memory.

These new findings complicate our understanding of the function of the hippocampus and suggest that memory may be best understood in terms of the interactions between various cognitive processes. Thus, a current challenge is to develop an integrated framework that represents a broader view of the role of the hippocampus in guiding behavior, bridging psychological theory and neurobiological approaches.

To advance such a framework, we are soliciting contributions in this and related fields to a special section of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Details
Relevant areas of investigation span a range of psychological processes (including but not limited to those listed above) and methods (including behavioral, neuroimaging, and patient studies in humans, as well as animal studies).

Given this broad focus, all contributions should contain specific and identifiable insights into how the hippocampus and surrounding MTL cortex supports cognition, as well as clear implications for psychological theories, computational models, and/or behavior. These insights can arise from direct neuroscientific investigations, or from behavioral studies that connect known functions of the MTL with other processes (e.g., testing the role of relational memory in decision-making).

We are seeking submissions of cutting-edge empirical papers in short or long report format that provides a clear conceptual advance. Short reports (less than 3,000 words) could include a single experiment with straightforward methods, while long reports could include multiple experiments or complex analyses. We will also consider theoretical notes that provide a hypothesis or perspective on one issue, and longer theoretical papers that review recent work in a field or that present a new theory or model.

Although JEP: General has not traditionally published many neuroscientific studies, this call exemplifies a new priority of the journal to include neuroscience as one of several modern and important approaches for studying the mind. In exchange for publishing studies that might otherwise appear in general or specialized neuroscience journals, JEP: General will ensure that your work receives a broad audience, being ranked 4 of 81 among all psychology journals.

All submitted papers must meet the high quality standards of JEP: General, and thus will undergo the journal's regular review process. Every paper will be reviewed by experts in the relevant methods and topics in psychology and neuroscience, ensuring a fair and accurate evaluation. Reviewers will be blind to the fact that the papers were invited, and all papers will be subject to the possibility of rejection, with the editorial decisions made by the action editors of JEP: General.

It is important to emphasize that the journal believes that the issues dealt with in this special section are exciting and that these developments are highly promising. JEP: General is therefore committed to advancing and promoting this special section.

To indicate interest, please submit a tentative abstract by September 17, 2012. Based on these abstracts, the Organizers and Editors will select a number of papers to be submitted and reviewed. The planned timeline for the submission of papers is December 31, 2012. This abstract submission procedure is intended to ensure that the special section provides coherent and reasonable coverage.

We hope that this special section, bringing together a broad range of findings, will advance our understanding of both the cognitive processes that contribute to memory and the underlying neural processes by which memory systems influence behavior.

Questions about the special section can be addressed to the Special Section Organizers, Daphna Shohamy or Nick Turk-Browne.

Submit through the JEP: General Manuscript Submission Portal and please note that the submission is for this special section.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Neuropsychology: Cognitive Function in Parkinson’s Disease

In the last 10-20 years, there has been a growing body of literature relating to the cognitive impairments associated with Parkinson’s disease, including core cognitive processes such as recognition memory and attention, but more recently aspects of cognition such as prospective memory, decision-making and emotion recognition have also been explored. This research has moved beyond accounts of cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s, with implications for clinical management and real-life functioning for people with Parkinson’s. In addition to these important aspects, understanding the cognitive effects of Parkinson’s can illuminate normal function.

This special issue will comprise both reviews and empirical papers and cover a range of different cognitive processes in Parkinson’s including (but not limited to) reward, decision-making, memory, inhibition, hallucinations and action processing. Bringing together these topics and different approaches to the question of cognition in Parkinson’s will make for a thought-provoking and cutting edge special issue, which will be of interest to both basic scientists and clinicians.

Please send an email expression of interest to jnp@wiley.com, giving a brief outline of your proposed article prior to submission to the special issue. The closing date for submissions will be 30th June 2012.

Call for Manuscripts: Springer Series on Human Exceptionality

Series Editors

Donald H. Saklofske, Ph.D., University of Calgary, Canada Moshe Zeidner, Ph.D., University of Haifa, Israel

The Editors of the Springer Series on Human Exceptionality invite you to submit appropriate manuscripts to the editorial office for consideration for future publication.

The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality serves as an outlet for the rapid growth of research on the biological, psychological, social, cultural, educational, historical, and legal aspects of human exceptionality. Although no one discipline has ownership to the study of exceptionality, The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality embraces a more diverse, flexible, and dynamic conceptualization that draws from multidisciplinary perspectives.

The series publishes advances in theory as well as evidence-based research and practice on a wide array of facets of human exceptionality. The series is receptive to receiving manuscripts focusing on all aspects and facets of human exceptionality and drawing from all disciplines that examine issues of exceptionality. While there is a strong focus on children and adolescents, the series is not strictly limited to this age range. The series includes various descriptions of exceptionality ranging from a focus on cognitive and intellectual abilities and creativity to the wide range of talents expressed in art and athletics. Various descriptions that are often used to identify human exceptionalities such as Autism and ADHD, or Learning Disabilities and Developmental Disabilities, are appropriate for this series and may examine the biological, neural and psychological underpinnings as well environmental and cultural factors that cause or are implicated in understanding such individuals and groups. Thus, an examination of the factors that shape and influence the range of human diversity and exceptionality is a key purpose that this series will serve to address.

This series will be of particular interest to both researchers and practitioners in the social, behavioral and biological sciences. While some books in this series may be quite specific to a particular audiences such as physicians and neuropsychologists (e.g., the book we recently published on Neurobiology of Exceptionality), other books will be of much greater interest to a wider audience that may encompass educators and psychologists (e.g., Dynamic Assessment of Young Children). As well some books in this series will be much more focused on the development of theory and reporting supporting research (e.g., Theory of Mind and Language in Developmental Contexts) while others will have much greater relevance to practitioners (e.g., Handbook of Psychosocial Characteristics of Young Children).These books may also be appropriate as textbooks for senior undergraduate and graduate courses.

Call for Submissions

Scholars from disciplines in the behavioral, educational, social, and biological sciences are encouraged to contribute to this series in a wide range of areas related to the themes outlined in the overview. The series seeks the following kinds of authored or edited manuscripts:

Original, book length research manuscripts; collected scholarly papers (single or multiple authors); and proceedings from scientific symposia, meetings, or colloquia.

For further information about proposal submission and the review process feel free to contact either of the co-editors of the series.

Moshe Zeidner, Ph.D.

Laboratory for Research in Personality, Emotions, and Individual Differences Faculty of Education, University of Haifa Mount Carmel, 31905, Israel ( zeidner@research.haifa.ac.il)

or

Donald H. Saklofske, Ph.D.

Divison of Applied Psychology, 2500 University Drive N.W., University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 (don.saklofske@ucalgary.ca )

Call for Papers for a Theme Issue of School Psychology Forum: The Practice of Neuropsychology in the Schools

This issue will contain research and innovative practice in the area of neuropsychology. Examples include concussion prevention, collaborating with neurologists and rehab centers, interventions for children with TBI, educational value of assessing and intervening in the area of executive functioning, and assessing processing for children suspected of having learning disabilities.

Deadline: December 15th, 2013

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Acta Psychologica: Temporal Processing Within and Across Senses

Hosted by Argiro Vatakis & Rolf Ulrich

Inspired by the pioneering work of Carl Vierordt on time perception and the various methodological approaches he introduced in studying time perception (in his book Der Zeitsinn nach Versuchen-The time sense according to experiments or The experimental study of the time sense; Lejeune & Wearden, 2009), this special issue will discuss current research findings on temporal processing (not limited to duration judgments) within and between the senses. The issue will cover current models and new experimental data on interval timing, synchrony perception, and categorical timing. Additionally, issues brought forward in Vierordt’s work will also be covered, such as anticipatory effects on temporal judgments, the use of simple versus complex stimuli in experiments, attention, and time, cross-modal and individual differences in the perception and processing of time. This special issue will, thus, serve as a forum for the presentation of new research findings on temporal processing within and across senses.

Submission procedure:
1. Submit tentative title and abstract to Argiro Vatakis at argiro.vatakis at gmail.com by October 21st, 2012.

2. Full paper submission by December 12th, 2012 Instructions for submission: The submission website is located at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/actpsy/default.asp. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue it is important to select “Special Issue: Temporal Processing” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Papers should not be more than 20 pages.

3. Standard peer review/revision process will be followed.

4. Final decisions are expected by July 20th, 2013.

Argiro Vatakis, Ph.D.
Cognitive Systems Research Institute (CSRI)
http://www.csri.gr/index.php/en/staff/homepages/avataki.html

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research: Computational Models of Mindreading

Special issue editors: Paul Bello (paul.bello@navy.mil) & Marcello Guarini (mguarini@uwindsor.ca)

Mindreading, or the ability to represent and reason about the mental states of other agents and oneself, is a pervasive part of cognition that has yet to be deeply explored from a computational perspective. As a fundamental enabler for language understanding, plan recognition, cooperation, competition and moral cognition, it follows that detailed models of mental state attributions are a prerequisite for the development of a more complete theory of the human mind. Current cognitive theories of mindreading are predominantly philosophical in nature, with empirical work seemingly unable to provide definitive answers as to which framework might be the most defensible. Now that researchers have started to build cognitive models of mental-state reasoning, it is hoped that computational considerations may weigh in on the matter of how best to understand mindreading. This special issue seeks to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between computational cognitive modelers, philosophers, and psychologists studying the nature and operation of the human capacity to mindread. The emphasis of the issue will be placed on computational models and how they both inform and are informed by work in other disciplines.

Papers on mindreading are invited from AI, cognitive, social and developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of psychology and other related disciplines.
A non-exclusive set of possible topics (among other possibilities) are:

• Computational representations of mental states
• Cognitive models of the attribution process, including attribution errors.
• Developmental models of mindreading, including both spontaneous elicitation and verbally presented mindreading tasks.
• Imagination as it relates to mindreading
• Introspection and its relationship to 3rd-person mental-state attribution
• Propositional attitude reports
• Philosophical foundations, including the theory/simulation debate and the debate over the domain-specificity of the human mindreading capacity.
• Computational/formal treatments of theory-driven, simulation-oriented, modular, hybrid, or other accounts of mindreading.
• Mental state reasoning in abduction and plan-recognition.
• Mindreading and moral, legal or other forms of normative cognition

Please submit papers electronically, in a PostScript or PDF form, by June 1st 2012, to the editors listed above.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Cognitive Training

Guest Editors: Daniel Pine & Yair Bar-Haim

Great excitement has emerged about the potential for neuroscience to enhances the lives of children. This excitement also is tinged with some level of concern about the vulnerable state of the immature brain. With the rapid changes in information technology and the range of media exposures available to children, particular interest has focused on the potential for media exposure to influence children. Research on cognitive training holds the hope of enhancing understandings in all of these areas. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience hopes to focus this interest through a Special Issue devoted to these themes.

Specifically, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience announces a forthcoming Special Issue focused on the interface among neuroscience, development, and cognitive training research. We are seeking papers focused on the use of cognitive modification techniques, designed to alter information-processing functions, focused specifically on developmental themes. The journal is interested in papers focused on the clinical utility of such techniques. Thus, studies in various developmental conditions would be of interest. This includes attention-related, learning, and emotional problems. Moreover, studies are sought that examine the manner in which cognitive training techniques influence measures of brain function, derived from imaging. Finally, the journal also is interested in studies focused on such techniques, applied to animal models. We anticipate receiving both empirical and review papers. We have particular interest in original research using experimental designs.

The deadline for receiving these papers is July 1, 2012, with a plan for publication in early 2013. To submit to the Special Issue visit http://ees.elsevier.com/dcn/ and select the Special Issue on Training when submitting your paper.