This issue marks the transition from Language and Cognitive Processes to Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
Language and Cognitive Processes was founded almost 30 years ago in response to the growing interest in the psychological study of language. Its aims were to provide an international forum for the publication of theoretical and experimental research into the architecture of the human language system and into the mental processes and representations involved in language use. The journal has consistently emphasised the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and, apart from research in experimental psycholinguistics in both adult and developmental populations, it has published research derived from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience and computational modelling.
While maintaining these core aims, the goal of the new journal is to explicitly foster the relationship between cognitive theoretical accounts of language and its neural bases. In 2014, the journal's name will change to Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. This reflects our intention both to continue our original remit to publish cognitive studies of language and to bring a new emphasis on the publication of theoretical and empirical accounts of language function which integrate cognitive theoretical accounts of language with its neurobiological foundations.
The study of language function from a cognitive neuroscience perspective has attracted intensive research interest over the last 20 years, and the development of neuroscience methodologies has significantly broadened the empirical scope of all language research. Both hemodynamic imaging and electrophysiological approaches provide new perspectives on the representation and processing of language, and place important constraints on the development of theoretical accounts of language function. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience will consider all types of articles, including Reviews and Opinion Pieces. Continuing our strong tradition in this area, Themed Issues are also warmly encouraged. Submissions should exemplify research in this domain in its most straightforward sense: integrating excellent cognitive science and excellent neuroscience to answer key questions about the nature of language and cognition in the mind and the brain.
Lorraine K. Tyler
Department of Psychology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 3EB
UK