A Journal devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior.

CORTEX is an international journal devoted to the study of cognition and of the relationship between the nervous system and mental processes, particularly as these are reflected in the behaviour of patients with acquired brain lesions, normal volunteers, children with typical and atypical development, and in the activation of brain regions and systems as recorded by functional neuroimaging techniques. It was founded in 1964 by Ennio De Renzi.

Special Issue on From Bodies to Spaces: a neurocognitive/neuropsychological perspective on body-space interactions
Submission Date: 2024-09-06

Aims and scope of the Special Issue:

A wealth of studies on body processing in terms of multisensory perception, interoception, body ownership, and body recognition, as well as its relationship with the space surrounding us, has improved our knowledge of how we perceive and use our body in our environment. Body and space processing constantly interact with each other, with their representations being updated as a function of the sensorimotor constraints of the action to be performed, along with the social requirements of our surroundings. Moreover, the interaction between sensorimotor representations and body/space processing not only yielded important clinical implications by inspiring effective rehabilitative protocols, such as prismatic adaption for neglect patients, but also led to new stimulating neuropsychological interpretations of some psychiatric disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect fundamental advances in topics including but not limited to:

    Body ownership, body recognition, and body-related processing
    Multisensory interaction and integration,
    Peri personal and interpersonal space
    Body representations across the lifespan (e.g. development, aging, pregnancy)
    Body and spatial representations during social interactions
    Body representations in the digital/virtual world
    Visuospatial attention and prismatic adaption in healthy participants and neglect patients
    Altered body and space representations in neuropsychological and psychiatric patients.

Guest editors:

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Dr Ivan Patané
The University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Email: ivan.patane2@unibo.it 

Professor Anna Berti, M.D.
University of Turin, Italy
Email: annamaria.berti@unito.it

Professor Giuseppe di Pellegrino, M.D.
The University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Email: g.dipellegrino@unibo.it 

Dr. Alessandro Farné
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, France
Email: alessandro.farne@inserm.fr 

Manuscript submission information:

Cortex’s submission system will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from 6.11.2023. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type “SI: Bodies and Spaces”.

Please submit your manuscript before 6th September 2024.

Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for Authors and link to submit your manuscript are available on the Journal’s homepage at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/cortex/0010-9452/guide-for-authors 

Inquiries, including questions about appropriate topics, may be sent electronically to cortex@ed.ac.uk.

Keywords:

    Multisensory integration
    Peri personal space
    Body representation
    Prism adaptation

Special Issue on Neurocognitive perspectives on discourse and connected language
Submission Date: 2024-12-31

Aims and scope of the Special Issue

One of the most significant challenges for the neuroscience of language has involved moving beyond single words to model connected speech and, more specifically, discourse. Discourse is defined as language beyond a single simple clause used for a specific purpose. The past decade has seen remarkable progress in elucidating the production and comprehension of discourse. This special issue will highlight advances from cognitive and clinical neuroscience in modeling discourse that spans from multi-word utterances to naturalistic stories. We welcome submissions focused on either discourse comprehension (heard, signed, read) or production (spoken, signed, written) with the common denominator of a link to brain structure and/or function. Links can be established through a variety of experimental modalities (e.g., neuropsychological case studies, neuroimaging).

Pre-submission enquiries should be sent to the Editors via cortex@ed.ac.uk.

Guest editors:

Dr. Jamie Reilly
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Email: Jamie_reilly@temple.edu

Dr. Brielle Stark
Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Email: bcstark@iu.edu

Dr. Andrea Martin
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Njimegen, Netherlands
Email: Andrea.Martin@mpi.nl

Submission instructions

Cortex’s submission system will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from 01.07.2024. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type “VSI: Neurocognitive perspectives on discourse”.

Please submit your manuscript before 31st December 2024.

Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for Authors and link to submit your manuscript are available on the Journal’s homepage: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/cortex/0010-9452/guide-for-authors.

Inquiries, including questions about appropriate topics, may be sent electronically to cortex@ed.ac.uk.

Keywords:

Discourse; “Connected speech”; “connected language”; Neuroscience; Cognition