Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience is a Specialty Section of Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience is a specialty of Frontiers in Neuroscience that aims to publish important theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of animal and human decision making. Decision neuroscience is the convergence of neuroscience and decision sciences, such as psychology, economics and statistics. It spans a large range of sub-disciplines including, among others, animal neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, affective science, behavioral neuroscience, social neuroscience, game theory, behavioral decision making, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, neurology and psychiatry. All of these sub-disciplines investigate how decision makers acquire perceptual or other information about decision options in a social or non-social context, and further process this information to obtain different kinds of rewards. Over the last 10 years, decision neuroscience has been growing at an exponential rate. We will provide a forum for research spanning all areas of decision neuroscience in all animal species, including humans, using a research approach such as 1) behavioral, brain stimulation, functional neuroimaging, EEG, MEG, neurobiological and pharmacological experiments; and 2) lesion, structural neuroimaging, genetic and computational studies.
Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience welcomes the following
tier 1 article types: Book Review, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review and Specialty Grand Challenge.
All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the Specialty Section.
All articles published in Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience will be subjected to the
Frontiers Evaluation System after online publication. Authors of the
original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience to write a prestigious Frontiers
Focused Review - a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "
democratic tiering". The selection is based on the reader impact over a 4-month period from the date of publication. The selected high impact articles are re-written in a review style centered on the original discovery, and aim to address the wider audience across all of Neuroscience.