Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Behavioral and Brain Sciences is an important English-language cognitive science journal, will be published in the article from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy. The magazine was founded in 1978 by Stevan Harnad is published bimonthly by Cambridge University Press. The Social Sciences Citation Index leads Behavioral and Brain Sciences as one of the most cited periodicals in the field of psychology.

The magazine specializes in broad discussions on theoretical articles. Here, on a long article (target article) followed by a series of short comments (open peer commentary ) whose length is limited to 1000 words. The article author has an opportunity to respond to the comments at the end (author's response).

Articles to be published in the journal must undergo a detailed peer review.

The comments come from " associate members ", which include personalities such as John R. Anderson, Ned Block, Jean -Pierre Changeux, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker and John Searle.

2012 was the impact factor of the journal 18.571. It was thus in the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge at Rank 1 of 49 journals in the category behavioral science and # 3 of 251 journals in the category neuroscience.

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