JoCN travel fellows at CNS 2026 in Vancouver with Brad Postle, the journal’s editor-in-chief.
The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN) is now the official journal of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society! We are excited to announce a number of new intitiatives.
With the formal transfer of JoCN to CNS now complete, we are in the process of forming a Publications Committee that will oversee editorial policy at JoCN and the JoCN Discussion Forum (JoCNForum). Prominent among the responsibilities of this committee will be overseeing the selection for the next Editor-in-Chief. Two current editors at JoCN, Randy McIntosh (Associate Editor) and Regina Lapate (Consulting Editor) have agreed to serve on this committee, and we are now calling for nominations of members of the CNS community who are not currently formally associated with JOCN or the JoCNForum, but are interested in helping to oversee their integration with our society. Self-nominations are welcomed, and each nomination should be accompanied by a cv and a one paragraph statement of interest in joining the Publications Committee.
Please send the nomination to ktretheway@cogneurosociety.org by April 1, 2025.
We are also pleased to announce that JoCNForum will begin hosting the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (PCNS). In brief, authors of abstracts accepted for CNS 2026 will have the option of submitting their abstract—together with a figure that could be a pdf of the corresponding poster—at the same portal for submitting manuscripts to JoCN. Once posted at PCNS 2026, this abstract will have a unique doi that makes it an archived and citeable document, of comparable status to a manuscript on a preprint server, such as bioRxiv.
We are thrilled with these developments, and looking forward to future synergies between CNS and JoCN!
