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2006 Special Issue of Neural Networks on Brain and attention
CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 Special Issue of Neural Networks on BRAIN AND ATTENTION Attention has become the centre of an enormous experimental effort to understand its subtleties and varieties in the brain, not only in humans but in a range of animals from mice and rats up to monkeys as well. Recently understood reasoning powers of corvids (crows, etc) indicate that this experimental exercise needs to be expanded to birds (and also to more advanced fishes) where possible. However this advance in experimental understanding of attention must be put into a neural simulation framework, so as to be able to develop models which provide detailed quantitative agreement with the experimental data, but also give, if possible, a more general view of brain activity which applies to a broad range of brain control functions. The purpose of this Special Issue of Neural Networks is to encourage such a modelling framework, solidly based on experimental evidence. The expertise of the Editorial staff will facilitate this goal as collectively they have experience in neural modelling as well as various neurophysiological approaches such as EEG/ERP, MEG, and fMRL. Moreover, it is also a goal of this special issue that the field of neural modelling of attention can be kept up-to-date with experimental data, and that these two aspects of scientific advance can be encouraged to talk closely to each other. Finally, in addition to a focus on brain imaging in this Special Issue, there will also be attention devoted to the results of experiments observing single cell measurements in monkeys. We call for the submission of papers for this Special Issue using either or both the experimental or theoretical/simulation approach. We hope thereby to stimulate a discussion leading to a better understanding of this powerful ability of the brain—that of attention—to enable it to function more efficiently and ultimately to lead to our consciousness. Co-Editors Prof. John Taylor, Department of Mathematics! King’s College London Dr Anna Christina Nobre, Dept of Psychology, University of Oxford Prof. Kimron Shapiro, Dept of Psychology, University of Bangor
Submission Deadline for submission: May 15, 2006 Final corrected submissions: end July, 2006 Format: as specified in the journal or its web-page
Address for papers Papers should be submitted according to the requirements as given in the journal, to Prof. JG Taylor, Dept of Mathematics, King’s College, Strand, London WC2R2LS, UK.
2006 Special Issue of Neural Networks on BRAIN AND ATTENTION Attention has become the centre of an enormous experimental effort to understand its subtleties and varieties in the brain, not only in humans but in a range of animals from mice and rats up to monkeys as well. Recently understood reasoning powers of corvids (crows, etc) indicate that this experimental exercise needs to be expanded to birds (and also to more advanced fishes) where possible. However this advance in experimental understanding of attention must be put into a neural simulation framework, so as to be able to develop models which provide detailed quantitative agreement with the experimental data, but also give, if possible, a more general view of brain activity which applies to a broad range of brain control functions. The purpose of this Special Issue of Neural Networks is to encourage such a modelling framework, solidly based on experimental evidence. The expertise of the Editorial staff will facilitate this goal as collectively they have experience in neural modelling as well as various neurophysiological approaches such as EEG/ERP, MEG, and fMRL. Moreover, it is also a goal of this special issue that the field of neural modelling of attention can be kept up-to-date with experimental data, and that these two aspects of scientific advance can be encouraged to talk closely to each other. Finally, in addition to a focus on brain imaging in this Special Issue, there will also be attention devoted to the results of experiments observing single cell measurements in monkeys. We call for the submission of papers for this Special Issue using either or both the experimental or theoretical/simulation approach. We hope thereby to stimulate a discussion leading to a better understanding of this powerful ability of the brain—that of attention—to enable it to function more efficiently and ultimately to lead to our consciousness. Co-Editors Prof. John Taylor, Department of Mathematics! King’s College London Dr Anna Christina Nobre, Dept of Psychology, University of Oxford Prof. Kimron Shapiro, Dept of Psychology, University of Bangor
Submission Deadline for submission: May 15, 2006 Final corrected submissions: end July, 2006 Format: as specified in the journal or its web-page
Address for papers Papers should be submitted according to the requirements as given in the journal, to Prof. JG Taylor, Dept of Mathematics, King’s College, Strand, London WC2R2LS, UK.