Consciousness and Cognition An International Journal provides a forum for a natural-science approach to the issues of consciousness,
voluntary control, and self. The journal features empirical research (in the form of regular articles and short reports) and theoretical
articles. Book reviews, integrative theoretical and critical literature reviews, and tutorial reviews are also published. The journal
aims to be both scientifically rigorous and open to novel contributions.
The Editors welcome submissions from cognitive scientists
and neuroscientists, social, developmental, and personality researchers, linguists, philosophers of science, and others committed to
a scientific understanding of the journal's three main issues. Authors are asked to give special attention to clarity of definition in
their usage of such terms as "awareness," "conscious(ness),"and "voluntary," supplying operational definitions where possible.
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Carpenter, G. A., & Grossberg, S. (1994). Integrating symbolic and
neural processing in a self-organizing architecture for pattern recognition and prediction. In V. Honavar & L. Uhr (Eds.), Artificial
intelligence and neural networks: Steps toward principled prediction, pp. 387-421. San Diego: Academic Press.
Lewicki, P. (1986). Nonconscious social information processing. New York: Academic Press.
Visser, T. A. W., & Merikle, P. M. (1999). Conscious
and unconscious processes: The effects of motivation. Consciousness and Cognition, 8, 94-113.
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