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Visual Cognition

13% more pages in 2008!

Impact Factor: 1.733 (Journal Citation Reports 2007, published by Thomson Scientific)

• Published By: Psychology Press
• Volume Number: 16
• Frequency: 8 issues per year
• Print ISSN: 1350-6285
• Online ISSN: 1464-0716

Aims & Scope

Visual Cognition publishes new empirical research that increases theoretical understanding of human visual cognition. Studies may be concerned with any aspect of visual cognition such as perceptual organization; 0bject, face, and scene recognition; visual attention and search; short-term and long-term visual memory; visual word recognition and reading; eye movement control and active vision; dynamic vision; and visual imagery. The typical study will use behavioral methods, but papers reporting studies of alternative populations or based on methods such as neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI, ERP, MEG) or modeling (computational or mathematical) that bear on visual cognition are also published.

Articles take two forms. Full Articles typically involve multiple experiments and a relatively in-depth discussion of the theoretical implications of the work. There are no length restrictions though authors should strive for brevity. Brief Articles report new and unexpected empirical findings of broad interest and will be favored for novelty of approach or method. Manuscripts submitted as Brief Articles will receive a simple accept or reject disposition in the shortest possible time, and when accepted will receive priority for publication. Brief Articles have a maximum of 3000 words including abstract, notes, captions, and appendices, but excluding bibliography. The bibliography for a Brief Article should not exceed 30 references, and figures and tables should be used sparingly. A word count should be included on the title page.

Peer Review Integrity
All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by independent expert referees.

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SPECIAL ISSUES

All Special Issues of this journal are sent free to subscribers, but are also available to purchase separately as books for non-subscribers. Click on the titles below for more information. Please be patient as these links may take a moment to load.

• Visual Search and Attention
  Guest Editors: Hermann Muller and Joseph Krummenacher
  Vol 14, Issues 4/5/6/7 (September 2006) Hardback 978-1-84169-806-9
• Age of Acquisition Effects in Word and 0bject Processing
  Guest Editors: Chris Barry and Robert Johnston
  Vol 13, Issues 7/8 (June 2006) Hardback 978-1-84169-804-5
• Real World Scene Perception
  Guest Editor: John M. Henderson
  Vol 12, Issue 6, 2005, ISBN 1-84169-993-4
• Visual Social Cognition
  Guest Editor: Elaine Fox
  Vol 12, Issue 1, 2005, ISBN 1-84169-982-9

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