Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Last updated ISSN 0898-929X
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is published by The MIT Press in neuroscience. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Face Recognition and Perception
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Multisensory perception and integration
Key facts
| Publisher | The MIT Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0898-929X, 1530-8898 |
| Subject area | Neuroscience |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,222 |
| Publishing since | 1917 |
| Journal website | www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/jocn |
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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