Connectionists: Help in finding a journal about Psychology and Neural Networks

[Jochen Triesch]

Hello Sofia,

there are many journals to choose from. It sounds like a natural „home" for your work might be the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (https://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-cognitive-and-developmental-systems). Then again, many (if not most) psychological journals are also featuring neural network modeling work on a regular basis, with Developmental Science (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14677687) being just one example.

Having said that, more engineering-oriented journals usually like to see some advance of the „developmental“ method over the state of the art in engineering, while psychological journals usually want to see the neural network explain some psychological phenomenon in a new or improved way. Work that does neither is indeed more difficult to publish, I’d say. Should it be that way? I usually recommend to my students to choose one approach or the other and avoid being in the "no man’s land" in between.

Best regards,
  Jochen Triesch


> Am 18.11.2022 um 10:48 schrieb Sofia Leite <sofiarsleite at gmail.com>:
> 
> Good morning all members of this list,
> 
> Would you know or recommend a journal where I can publish work on the frontier between Psychology and Neural Networks? That has not been an easy task.
> 
> I developed work on developmental neural networks: created a NN model based on some premises of the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (MHC), a developmental theory. The dataset I used is quite simple, since the goal was not to have the model solving the problem, but solving it in a developmental way, obeying to the rules of human development according to the MHC. The study presents a novel method and obtained good results.
> 
> I appreciate your help!
> 
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> Sofia Leite, PhD
> Psicóloga Clínica
> Fundadora do RELIB - Centro Terapêutico e de Investigação
> Investigadora Integrada @ AI4Health, CINTESIS, FMUP
> 

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