Morphologically complex words in the mind/brain

Topic Editors:
Alina Leminen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Harald Clahsen, Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, Germany
Minna Lehtonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Mirjana Bozic, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

The question of how morphologically complex words (assign-ment, listen-ed) are represented and processed in the brain has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the...

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Dec 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Jul 2014

Consciousness: from assessment to rehabilitation

Topic Editors:
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Giulio E. Lancioni, University of Bari, Italy
Thomas Huenefeldt, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Italy
Steven Laureys, University of Liège, Belgium

Content reportability has often been considered as the principal access to phenomenal consciousness. However, in severe conditions such as aphasia and persistent...

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Nov 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Jul 2014

Human Explanation: Psychology, Computation, and Neuroscience

Topic Editors:
Aron K. Barbey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Richard Patterson, Emory University, USA

Introduction 
 The human mind is driven toward understanding. We wonder why events unfold in particular ways, why objects have specific...

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Jul 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 30 Apr 2014

Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience

Topic Editors:
Andrew D. Wilson, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Sabrina Golonka, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Louise Barrett, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati, USA

In the past 25 years, theories of cognition have undergone a paradigm shift. There is a growing understanding that behavior emerges from the complex interplay between...

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Aug 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Mar 2014

Explicating the interplay between anatomical and functional connectivity in the human brain

Topic Editors:
Timothy Verstynen, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ariel Rokem, Stanford University, USA
Eleftherios Garyfallidis, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Human cognitive functions arise through the concerted activity of multiple brain regions. Gaining deeper insights into these network-level functions requires not only...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Sep 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Feb 2014

Critical Neuroscience: The context and implications of human brain research

Topic Editors:
Suparna Choudhury, McGill University, Canada
Jan Slaby, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Daniel S. Margulies, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany

This special issue seeks to address the visions and challenges surrounding new grand-scale initiatives in neuroscience — including the EU-funded Human Brain Project and a...

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Jul 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 15 Jan 2014

The Human Brain’s Place in Nature: Evolution of Large Brains

Topic Editors:
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Chet C. Sherwood, George Washington University, USA

The human brain is often considered special, and much research effort is directed towards understanding the genetic and developmental origins of the expansion in primate...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Sep 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Jan 2014

Prefrontal control across psychiatric disorders

Topic Editors:
Anna E. Goudriaan, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam & Arkin Mental Health, Netherlands
Ali Mazaheri, University of California, Davis, USA
Guido Van Wingen, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands

Neuroimaging studies have provided a significant contribution to the identification of wide-spread neural abnormalities in patients with a variety of psychiatric...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Jun 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Jan 2014

Music, Brain, and Rehabilitation: Emerging Therapeutic Applications and Potential Neural Mechanisms

Topic Editors:
Teppo Särkämö, University of Helsinki, Finland
Eckart Altenmüller, University of Music and Drama Hannover, Germany
Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, University of Barcelona, Spain
Isabelle Peretz, Université de Montréal, Canada

Music is an important source of enjoyment, learning, and well-being in life as well as a rich, powerful, and versatile stimulus for the brain. With the advance of modern...

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Jul 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Dec 2013

Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions

Topic Editors:
Enrico Facco, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Italy
Etzel Cardeña, University of Lund, Sweden
Christian Agrillo, University of Padova, Italy

So-called altered states of consciousness (ASC) are an intriguing, still under-researched topic, with profound neuropsychological and epistemological implications. In the...

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Aug 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Dec 2013

Muscular synergies underlying complex upper-limb movements: from fundamental research to clinical application.

Topic Editors:
Ana Bengoetxea, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Guy Cheron, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Paul VERBANCK, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Bernard Dan, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Daily-life movements are complex in the sense that they have a goal, they imply the rotation of many joints with multiple degrees of freedom and they require the...

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jun 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 20 Dec 2013

Neuro-motor control and feed-forward models of locomotion in humans

Topic Editors:
Marco Iosa, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Italy
Nadia Dominici, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
Federica Tamburella, I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia, Italy
Leonardo Gizzi, Pain Clinic Center for Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital Göttingen, Germany

Locomotion involves many different muscles and the need of controlling several degrees of freedom. Despite the Central Nervous System can finely control the contraction...

Deadline for full article submission: 15 Dec 2013

The cognitive, emotional and neural correlates of creativity

Topic Editors:
Matthijs Baas, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Carsten De Dreu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bernard A. Nijstad, University of Groningen, Netherlands

In this Research Topic, we aim to bring together a collection of papers to provide an encyclopedic, open access snapshot of the current state of the art on the neural,...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Sep 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Dec 2013

Extra-hippocampal vs. hippocampal roles in spatial coding

Topic Editors:
R Shayna Rosenbaum, York University, Canada
Arne Ekstrom, University of California, Davis, USA
Hugo Spiers, UCL, United Kingdom
Veronique D. Bohbot, McGill University, Canada

Since the proposal of O'Keefe and Nadel (1978), decades of work have supported a specialized role for the hippocampus in coding allocentric spatial memories, or spatial...

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jun 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 30 Nov 2013

Abstract Mathematical Cognition

Topic Editors:
Wolfgang Grodd, University Hospital Aachen (UKA), Germany
Philippe Chassy, Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom

Despite the importance of mathematics in our educational systems little is known about how abstract mathematical thinking emerges. Under the uniting thread of...

Deadline for full article submission: 19 Oct 2013

Resolving Uncertainty in Perception

Topic Editors:
Harriet Brown, University College London, United Kingdom
Karl Friston, UCL, United Kingdom

All sensory data are initially encoded as voltage changes in sensory receptors. These noisy and ambiguous signals are processed by the peripheral nervous system and brain...

Deadline for abstract submission: 16 Jul 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 16 Oct 2013

Neural bases of speech motor control: have we made progress since Broca’s era?

Topic Editors:
Frederique J. Liegeois, University College London, Institute of Child Health, United Kingdom
Angela T. Morgan, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Childrens Hospital and University of Melbourne, Australia

The ability to articulate speech is a unique feature of the human condition, yet historically research has focused on language abilities, with a critical lack of focus on...

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Jul 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 15 Oct 2013

Magnetoencephalography: an emerging neuroimaging tool for studying normal and abnormal human brain development

Topic Editors:
CHRISTOS PAPADELIS, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Patricia Ellen Grant, Children's Hospital Boston, USA
Yoshio Okada, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
Hubert Preissl, University of Tübingen, Germany

Research on the human brain development has seen an upturn in the past years mostly due to novel neuroimaging tools that became available to study the anatomy and...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Jun 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Oct 2013

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in functional research of prefrontal cortex

Topic Editors:
Nobuo Masataka, Kyoto University, Japan
Leonid Perlovsky, Harvard University and Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Kazuo Hiraki, University of Tokyo, Japan

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) can be used to monitor brain activity by identifying and measuring changes in the concentrations of oxygenated and deoxygenated...

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Aug 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 30 Sep 2013

A second golden age for the habenula: reward and disappointment

Topic Editors:
Ramiro Salas
Fritz A. Henn, Mt Sinai Medical Center, USA
Masayuki Matsumoto, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Philip R. Baldwin, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

During the 80s, habenular researchers produced some very high quality reports that illuminated the anatomy and possible functions of this small but important brain...

Deadline for abstract submission: 26 Aug 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 03 Sep 2013