Common and Distinctive Mechanisms in Memory, Reasoning, and Categorization

Topic Editors:
BRETT HAYES, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Evan Heit, University of California, Merced, USA
Caren Rotello, University of Massachusetts, USA

Traditionally, memory, reasoning and categorization have been treated as separate components of human cognition. Each has been studied with distinct paradigms that have...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Oct 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 03 Mar 2014

Beyond the body? The Future of Embodied Cognition

Topic Editors:
Guy Dove, University of Louisville, USA

Embodied cognition represents one of most important research programs in contemporary cognitive science. Although there is a diversity of opinion concerning the nature of...

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Aug 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Jan 2014

The role of awareness in statistical learning: conceptual and methodological issues

Topic Editors:
Ana Franco, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Arnaud Destrebecqz, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

The term statistical learning (SL) designates the ability of 8 m.o. infants to identify the "words" embedded in a continuous stream of syllables. This phenomenon closely...

Deadline for abstract submission: 25 Sep 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 25 Jan 2014

Dynamic control of representations in visual working memory

Topic Editors:
Jun Saiki, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
Keisuke Fukuda, Vanderbilt University, USA

Visual working memory (VWM) allows us to actively maintain limited amount of visual information so that we can act upon them. Thanks to this ability, we are capable of...

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Dec 2013

From is to ought: The place of normative models in the study of human thought

Topic Editors:
Shira Elqayam, De Montfort University, UK, United Kingdom
David E. Over, Durham University, United Kingdom

In the study of human thinking, two main research questions can be asked: Descriptive Q: What is human thinking like? Normative Q: What ought human thinking be...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Jul 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Dec 2013

Priming and memory: Behavior, Neurophysiology and Modeling

Topic Editors:
Frédéric Lavigne, Université de Nice - Sophia antipolis, France
Laurent Dumercy, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France
Gianluigi Mongillo, Paris Descartes University, France

Priming refers to modifications in the way a stimulus is processed depending on the stimuli previously encountered (primes). In its simplest form - repetition priming -...

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jun 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 30 Oct 2013

Applied Olfactory Cognition

Topic Editors:
Gesualdo M. Zucco, Faculty of Medicine, University of Padova, Italy
Benoist Schaal, Centre Européen des Sciences du Goût, CNRS, Dijon, France
Mats Olsson, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ilona Croy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

In recent years a significant body of research literature has accumulated on olfaction along several levels of investigation, ranging from molecular processes to the...

Deadline for abstract submission: 10 Jan 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 10 Sep 2013

Body in Mind

Topic Editors:
Alexander Jones, Universite Paris Descartes, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, France
Bettina Forster, City University London, United Kingdom

The sense of touch is vital in development, and for how we perceive the world and interact with others. The skin envelopes our body and is our largest organ providing us...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 May 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Sep 2013

Individuality in music performance

Topic Editors:
Bruno Gingras, University of Vienna, Austria

Humans are remarkably adept at identifying individuals on the basis of their facial features, or other traits such as gait or vocal timbre. Besides voice, another...

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Jan 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 May 2013

Extended deadline for full article submission: 31 Jul 2013

Synaesthesia

Topic Editors:
Michael Banissy, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
Roi Cohen Kadosh
Clare Jonas, University of East London, United Kingdom

Title: Synaesthesia Guest editors: Michael Banissy (Goldsmiths, University of London), Clare Jonas (University of St Andrews), Roi Cohen Kadsoh (University of...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Oct 2012

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Jun 2013

Extended deadline for full article submission: 05 Jul 2013

Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots

Topic Editors:
Gianluca Baldassarre, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Andrew Barto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Marco Mirolli, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Italy
Peter Redgrave
Richard M. Ryan, University of Rochester, USA
Tom Stafford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

The aim of this Research Topic for Frontiers in Cognitive Science and Frontiers in Neurorobotics is to present state-of-the-art research, whether theoretical, empirical,...

Deadline for abstract submission: 21 Jan 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 05 Jul 2013

Social signals in action recognition and intention understanding

Topic Editors:
Serge Thill, University of Skövde, Sweden
Boris Duran, University of Skovde, Sweden
Paul Hemeren, University of Skövde, Sweden

One fundamental aspect of human cognition is the ability to understand (perceive and predict) the intentions of others via their actions. The ability to adapt to social...

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Jan 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Jun 2013

Extended deadline for full article submission: 01 Jul 2013

Writing words: From brain to hand(s)

Topic Editors:
Sonia Kandel, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition - CNRS UMR 5105, France
Marieke Longcamp, Aix-Marseille Univserity and CNRS, France

Writing is an essential communication tool for living in society, but currently, very little is known on how we write words, and most research on language production has...

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Nov 2012

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Jul 2013

Speech imitation: the cognitive underpinnings of adaptive vocal behaviour

Topic Editors:
Noel Nguyen, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France
Marc Sato, GIPSA-lab, CNRS & Grenoble University, France
Marie Postma, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Jennifer Pardo, Montclair State University, USA
Molly Babel, University of British Columbia, Canada
Eric Postma, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Speech imitation appears to be one of the most fundamental aspects of human vocal behavior. It has been suggested that it plays an important role in speech development...

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Face Processing: perspectives from cognitive science and psychopathology

Topic Editors:
Linda Isaac, Palo Alto VA & Stanford University, USA

Introduction: The process of recognizing a face is quite complex. Like many visual stimuli, faces must be accurately recognized in any orientation or lighting condition,...

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The role of body and environment in cognition

Topic Editors:
Dermot Lynott, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Louise Connell, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Judith Holler, Max Planck Institute Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Recent evidence has shown many ways in which our bodies and the environment influence cognition. In this research topic we aim to develop our understanding...

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Basic and applied research on deception and its detection (Frontiers in Cognitive Science)

Topic Editors:
Wolfgang Ambach, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP), Germany
Matthias Gamer, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Deception is a ubiquitous phenomenon in social interactions and has attracted a significant amount of research during the last decades. The majority of studies in this...

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Time and Causality - Frontiers in Cognitive Science

Topic Editors:
Marc J. Buehner, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

This Research Topic is cross-listed in Frontiers in Perception Science, you may find the published articles here: http://www.frontiersin.org/perception...

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Dynamics of decision making: from evidence to preference and belief

Topic Editors:
Marius Usher, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Konstantinos Tsetsos, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Erica Yu, University of Maryland, USA
David A. Lagnado, University College London, United Kingdom

At the core of the many debates throughout cognitive science concerning how decisions are made are the processes governing the time course of preference formation and...

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The Neuroscience and Psychophysiology of Experience-Based Decisions

Topic Editors:
Eldad Yechiam, Technion ­ Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Itzhak Aharon, The Interdisciplinary Center, Israel

In experience-based decisions people learn to make decisions by sampling the relevant alternatives and getting feedback. The study of experience-based decisions has...

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