About the Journal

Specialty Editor-In-Chief: Steven M Platek, Georgia Gwinnett College, USA
Abbreviation: Front. Evol. Neurosci.
Electronic ISSN:1663-070X
NLM ID: Coming Soon
Indexed in: Pubmed Central, PubMed and Google Scholar Coming Soon

Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience is a first-tier electronic journal devoted to understanding the evolution of neural processes, neuroanatomical structure, neural structure - function relationships, and cognition and behavior. Brains regulate behavior and as such have been designed by evolution to solve specific adaptive problems faced by organisms during evolutionary history. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience is dedicated to publishing papers that lead the field in discovering mechanisms that have undergone selection pressures resulting in evolution (divergent or convergent) of structure or function that leads to a greater understanding of 1) the neural processes of animals and humans; 2) neuropsychiatric disease states and the paths in which normal neural processes have gone off course; 3) the genetics underlying variations across species in neurocomputational hardware and behavior; and 4) evolutionary underpinnings that gave rise to advanced social and cognitive capacities. Evolutionary neuroscience is the discipline poised to answer fundamental questions about the nature of the nervous system, such as the degree to which behavioral, cognitive, and neural modularity exists (e.g., domain specificity versus domain general processing); heritability and variations (species, regional, cultural, ethnic, and individual) in intellectual, social, and personality characteristics; make predictions about ancestral neural states (paleoneurology); and inform behavior and clinical modification programs from an evolutionary perspective. The journal welcomes submissions that tackle questions from a broad spectrum of disciplines and use myriad methodologies including, but not limited to: comparative genetics and genomics; investigations of allelic variations of behavior, cognition, and neural structure and function; comparative investigations of animal and human behavior that address the underlying cognitive and neural architecture; and functional neuroimaging studies that have been guided by an evolutionary framework.

Frontiers’ philosophy is that all research is for the benefit of mankind. It is enabled by society and should be returned to all people without borders or discrimination. That is why Frontiers provides open and free access to all of its publications. For more information on the open access movement click here.

Under the Frontiers terms and conditions you retain the copyright of your work. This means that you may reproduce copies of your articles in any way you choose and freely disseminate these as reprints, as long as the original publication is fully cited. For instance, your published article can be posted on your personal or institutional homepage, e-mailed to friends and colleagues, printed, archived in a collection, distributed on CD-ROM, quoted in the press, translated and furthermore sent to as many people and as often as you wish.

Each Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, due to true collaborative interactions between authors and the highest quality reviewers. Frontiers recognizes the immense importance of the potential impact of published research on future research and society and, hence, does not support superficial review, light review or no review publishing models. Research knowledge must be validated by peers before entering the stream of knowledge that will eventually reach the public and shape society. Therefore, Frontiers supports the highest quality reviews and operates according to the novel Frontiers academic model that applies a rigorous but unbiased Frontiers review system, a separated, online, automated and global Frontiers evaluation system and Frontiers distillation system, as well as the Frontiers recognition system to reward the most outstanding research selected by the entire community.