Connectionists: Call for papers: Special Issue in Frontiers in Language Sciences

[Julien Mayor]

Dear colleagues,

In collaboration with Frontiers in Psychology, we are currently organizing a Research Topic (Special Issue), "50 years after the perceptron, 25 years after PDP: Neural computation in language sciences". 

The proposed structure of this Research Topic is provided below.

Host Specialty: Frontiers in Language Sciences

Research Topic Title: 50 years after the perceptron, 25 years after PDP: Neural computation in language sciences

Topic Editor(s): Julien Mayor, Pablo Gomez, Franklin Chang, Gary Lupyan

Description: The special issue aims to showcase the state of the art in language research while celebrating the 25th anniversary of the tremendously influential work of the PDP group, and the 50th anniversary of the perceptron. Although PDP models are often the gold standard to which new models are compared, the scope of this special issue is not constrained to connectionist models. Instead, we aim to create a landmark forum in which experts in the field define the state of the art and future directions of the psychological processes underlying language learning and use, broadly defined. We thus invite papers involving computational modeling and original research as well as technical, philosophical, or historical discussions pertaining to models of cognition. We especially invite submissions aimed at contrasting different computational frameworks, and their relationship to imaging and behavioral data.

Article Submission Deadline: Apr 30, 2013

Frontiers Research Topics are designed to be an organized, encyclopedic coverage of a particular research area, and a forum for discussion and debate. Contributions can be of different article types (Original Research, Methods, Hypothesis & Theory, and others). 

Our Research Topic has a dedicated homepage on the Frontiers website, where contributing articles are accumulated and discussions can be easily held. Once all articles are published, the topic will be compiled into an e-book, which can be sent to foundations that fund your research, to journalists and press agencies, and to any number of other organizations. As the ultimate reference source from leading scientists, Frontiers Research Topic articles become highly cited.

Frontiers is a Swiss-based, open access publisher. As such an article accepted for publication incurs a publishing fee, which varies depending on the article type. The publishing fee for accepted articles is below average compared to most other open access journals - and lower than subscription-based journals that apply page and color figure charges. Moreover, for Research Topic articles, the publishing fee is discounted quite steeply thanks to the support of the Frontiers Research Foundation. Details on Frontiers’ fees can be found at http://www.frontiersin.org/about/PublishingFees. 

When published, your article will be freely available to visitors to the Frontiers site, and will be indexed in PubMed and other academic archives. As an author in Frontiers, you will retain the copyright to your own paper and all figures.

For more information about this topic and Frontiers in Language Sciences, please visit: 

http://www.frontiersin.org/Language_Sciences/researchtopics/50_years_after_the_perceptron_/1287

It would be wonderful if you considered participating in this Research Topic. 

With best regards, 

Julien Mayor
Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Language Sciences
www.frontiersin.org

---
Julien Mayor
University of Geneva
40 Bd Pont d'Arve
1205 Genève
Tel: +41 (0)22 3798150
http://www.unige.ch/fapse/psycholinguistique/model.html






-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20121105/eb7125c4/attachment.html