Connectionists: Connection Science: Revised Aims & Scope and New Editor-in-Chief

[Tony Prescott]

Dear Connectionists,

The journal *Connection Science* (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ccos), one
of the longest running journals in field of connectionist research, has a
revised aims and scope, a new editor-in-chief, and a substantially revised
editorial board. In addition to research articles the journal is also
interested in publishing special issues, and review, perspective, and
roadmap articles in topics relevant to the revised themes. The new aims and
scope and full list of current editorial board members is given below,
please see the web-site for more details.

*Revised Aims and Scope*
Connection Science is an inter-disciplinary journal dedicated to exploring
the convergence of the analytic and synthetic sciences of mind including
psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science,
computational modelling, artificial intelligence, analog and parallel
computing, and robotics.
A strong focus is on the simulation of living systems and their societies,
including humans, and on the development of novel forms of synthetic life
such as biomimetic robots. Articles arising from connectionist,
probabilistic, dynamical, or evolutionary approaches, and that explore
distributed adaptive computation or emergent order, are particularly
relevant. The journal also encourages submission of research in
systems-level computational neuroscience that seeks to understand
sensorimotor integration, perception, cognition, or awareness in brain-like
model systems.
Manuscripts that employ empirical methodologies or that explore social,
theoretical or philosophical issues will be considered where there is a
clear relevance to the synthetic approach and/or its societal impacts.
 Review, road-mapping, or perspective papers are welcome; authors are
advised to consult the Editor-in-Chief if considering a submission of this
nature.


*Editorial Board*

Editor-in-Chief
Tony J. Prescott, University of Sheffield, UK
(http://www.abrg.group.shef.ac.uk/people/tony/)

Founding Editor
Noel E. Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK

Associate Editors
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK
Andy  Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK
Garrison W. Cottrell, University of California, San Diego, USA
Stefano Nolfi, University of Rome, Italy
Amanda J. C. Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK
Paul Verschure, University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Stefan Wermter, University of Hamberg, Germany

Editorial Board
Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, UK
Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
Christian Balkenius, Lund University, Sweden
Jim Bednar, University of Edinburgh, UK
Luc Berthouze, University of Sussex, UK
Mark Bishop, Goldsmiths, UK
Joanna Bryson, University of Bath, UK
Ke Chen, University of Manchester, UK
Hillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Paul Cisek, University of Montreal, Canada
Joachim Diederich, University of Melbourne, Australia
Peter Dominey, Inserm, Lyon, France
Georg Dorffner , University of Vienna, Austria
Michael Dyer, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Michael J. Frank, Brown University, USA
Philip Husbands, University of Sussex, UK
J. A. Scott Kelso, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Christoph von der Malsburg, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Jonatas Manzolli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Giorgio Metta, Instituto Italiano di Technologia, Genoa, Italy
Ben Mitchinson, University of Sheffield, UK
Tim Pearce, University of Leicester, UK
Giovanni Pezzulu, ICST, Padova, Italy
Andrew Phillipides, University of Sussex, UK
Kim Plunkett, University of Oxford, UK
Ronan Reilly, University College Dublin, Ireland
Anil K. Seth, University of Sussex, UK
Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London, UK
Narayanan Srinivasan, University of Allahabad, India
Luc Steels, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA
Jun Tani, KAIST, South Korea
Carme Torras, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Jeremy Wyatt, University of Birmingham, UK
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde, Sweden
Marco Zorzi. University of Padova, Italy

Connection Science is now being published in association with “The
Convergent Science Network for Biomimetics and Neurotechnology” (CSN:
http://csnetwork.eu) a European Union-sponsored international network for
research in brain-inspired technologies.

Tony J Prescott
Connection Science, Editor-in-Chief
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