The ''Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering
cognitive neuroscience
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. It aims for a cross-discipline approach, covering research in
neuroscience
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,
neuropsychology
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,
cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, whi ...
,
neurobiology
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,
linguistics
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,
computer science
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, and
philosophy
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. The journal is published by the
MIT Press
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and the
Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and the
editor-in-chief
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is Bradley R. Postle (
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 3.225.
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