Cognitive Psychology publishes original empirical, theoretical, and tutorial papers, methodological articles, and critical reviews dealing with memory, language processing, perception, problem solving, and thinking. This journal emphasizes work on human cognition. Papers dealing with relevant problems in such related areas as social psychology, developmental psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology also are welcomed provided that they are of direct interest to cognitive psychologists and are written to be understandable by such readers. Minor or very specialized studies are seldom accepted.

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Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission available at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/cogpsy. This site will guide authors stepwise through the submission process. Authors should upload the source files of their articles in the preferred format of Microsoft (MS) Word, RTF, WordPerfect, or LaTeX for text and TIFF or EPS for figures. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. Authors, reviewers, and editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary. Should you be unable to provide an electronic version, please contact the Editorial Office prior to submission at:


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Manuscripts must be written in English. A manuscript submitted for publication is judged by three main criteria: (a) appropriateness of the subject matter for this journal; (b) significance of its contribution to knowledge; and (c) clarity and conciseness of writing. No changes in a manuscript may be made once it has been accepted and is in press.

Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that no substantial portion of the study has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere and that its submission for publication has been approved by all the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out. Manuscripts that do not meet the general criteria or standards for publication in Cognitive Psychology will be immediately returned to the author(s), without detailed review.

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Preparation of a Manuscripts

Format and style of manuscript should conform to the conventions specified in the latest edition of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association with the exceptions listed below. Please note that it is the responsibility of the author that manuscripts for Cognitive Psychology conform to the requirements of this journal. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout. Pages should be numbered consecutively and organized as follows:

The title page (p. 1) should contain the article title, authors' names and affiliations, footnotes to the title, and the address for manuscript correspondence (including e-mail address and telephone and fax numbers).

The abstract (p. 2) must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in less than 150 words. After the abstract a list of up to 10 keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included.

The introduction should be concise as possible, without subheadings.

Materials and methods should be sufficiently detailed to enable the experiments to be reproduced.

Results and Discussion may be combined and may be organized into subheadings.

References should be cited in the text by surname of the author, followed by the year of publication. Only articles that have been published or are in press should be included in the references. Unpublished results or personal communications should be cited as such in the text. Please use the following style.

Biggs, J. B., & Collis, K. F. (1982). Evaluating the
quality of learning: The SOLO taxonomy. New York: Academic Press.

Mattys, S. L., Jusczyk, P. W., Luce, P. A., & Morgan, J. L.
(1999). Phonotactic and prosodic effects on word segmentation
in infants. Cognitive Psychology, 38 465-494.

Ross, B. H. (1996). Category learning as problem solving. In D.
L. Medin (Ed.), The psychology of learning and
motivation (Vol. 35, pp. 165-192, San Diego: Academic
Press.

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Color figures in the printed issue can be accepted only if the authors defray the cost. However, if, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures, then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version. For color reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Please note: Because of technical complications that can arise in converting color figures to "gray scale" (for the printed version should you not opt for color in print), please submit in addition usable black-and-white files corresponding to all the color illustrations.

Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. Type each table double-spaced on a separate page with a short descriptive title typed directly above and with essential footnotes below.

Preparation of Supplementary Material

Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer additional possibilities for publishing supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips, and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect ( http://www.sciencedirect.com). To ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please provide the data in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Please note, however, that supplementary material will not appear in the printed journal. For more detailed instructions, please refer to http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions and then view "Multimedia files."

Proofs

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Reprints

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