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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This Special Issue is about stepping back and taking a look at where we are in terms of understanding the brain. We want to publish short position papers,
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">maximum 10 pages long</span>. We are aiming for
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">quick reviews, about two weeks</span>. Further details are provided below<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">. The Guest Editors decided to extend the deadline to April 15, 2022.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Asim Roy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor, Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arizona State University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/9973">Asim Roy | iSearch (asu.edu)</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy">Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Professor Asim Roy</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Special Issue Call for Papers:
</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">What AI and Neuroscience Can Learn from Each Other: Open Problems in Models and Theories<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Guest Editors:</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">(Lead) Asim Roy, Arizona State University, USA, E-mail: <a href="mailto:ASIM.ROY@asu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#004B83">ASIM.ROY@asu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:#FCFCFC;box-sizing: inherit">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Claudius Gros, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, E-mail: <a href="mailto:gros@itp.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="color:#004B83">gros@itp.uni-frankfurt.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:#FCFCFC;box-sizing: inherit">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Juyang Weng, Brain Mind Institute, USA, Email: <a href="mailto:weng@msu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#004B83">weng@msu.edu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:#FCFCFC;box-sizing: inherit">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Jean-Philippe Thivierge, University of Ottawa, Canada, E-mail: <a href="mailto:Jean-Philippe.Thivierge@uottawa.ca" target="_blank"><span style="color:#004B83">Jean-Philippe.Thivierge@uottawa.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:#FCFCFC;box-sizing: inherit">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Tsvi Achler, Optimizing Mind, Email: <a href="mailto:achler@optimizingmind.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#004B83">achler@optimizingmind.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:#FCFCFC;box-sizing: inherit">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Ali A. Minai, University of Cincinnati, USA, E-mail: <a href="mailto:Ali.Minai@uc.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#004B83">Ali.Minai@uc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Aim and Motivation:</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Arguments about the brain and how it works are endless. Despite some conflicting conjectures and theories that have existed for decades without resolution, we have made significant
progress in creating brain-like computational systems to solve some important engineering problems. It would be a good idea to step back and examine where we are in terms of our understanding of the brain and potential problems with the brain-like AI systems
that have been successful so far. For this special issue of Cognitive Computation, we invite thoughtful articles on some of the issues that we have failed to address and comprehend in our journey so far in understanding the brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">We aim for rapid peer-reviews by experts (about two weeks) for all selected submissions and plan to publish the special issue papers on a rolling basis from early 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Topics:</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">We plan to publish a collection of short articles on a variety of topics that could be asking new questions, proposing new theories, resolving conflicts between existing theories,
and proposing new types of computational models that are brain-like.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Deadlines:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">SI submissions deadline: 15 February 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">First notification of acceptance: 11 March 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Submission of revised papers: 10 April 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Final notification to authors: 30 April 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Publication of SI: Rolling basis (2022)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Submission Instruction:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333333">Prepare your paper in accordance with the Journal guidelines: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.springer.com/12559__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!I-s2QhxTWc5jBRDov2CgMdfef05-RRKPvYfttGh7Qz3tYhg9vRr_oCibLJ5F3Rc$" target="_blank"><span style="color:#004B83">www.springer.com/12559</span></a>.
Submit manuscripts at: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!I-s2QhxTWc5jBRDov2CgMdfef05-RRKPvYfttGh7Qz3tYhg9vRr_oCibcGN6Uao$" target="_blank"><span style="color:#004B83">http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/</span></a>.
Select “SI: AI and Neuroscience” for the special issue under “Additional Information.” Your paper must contain significant and original work that has not been published nor submitted to any journals. All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing
procedures of the Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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