Brain and Cognition
Last updated ISSN 0278-2626
Brain and Cognition is published by Elsevier BV in neuroscience. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,180.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Brain and Cognition concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Motor Control and Adaptation
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0278-2626, 1090-2147 |
| Subject area | Neuroscience |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,180 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,678 |
| Publishing since | 1824 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/brain-and-cognition |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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