Cognition
Last updated ISSN 0010-0277
Cognition is published by Elsevier BV in psychology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,910.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Cognition concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Multisensory perception and integration
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0010-0277, 1873-7838 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,910 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 6,650 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/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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