About this Research Topic
This Research Topic aims to further the continued application of neural network models to address topics in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. The topic aims to highlight how the latest developments in neural network models can be applied to understanding cognitive and neural processes and to stimulate further cognitive computational research using the tools, methods, and insights from contemporary neural network research in machine learning and artificial intelligence, while also providing a forum for the presentation of more traditional modeling efforts of high quality. It shares these objectives with the 15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (held at Drexel University, Philadelphia, August 8-9, 2016), to which the Research Topic is a follow-up. Submissions that report new advances in neural network architectures or methods, apply neural networks to more life-like cognitive tasks and larger-scale data sets, or bridge across different levels of analysis, will be particularly encouraged. Most papers will present research using neural networks to simulate cognitive processes such as perception, memory, and language; and to account for behavioral and/or neuroimaging data. Methods, Protocols, and Technology Reports that describe how to implement neural networks will also be welcome. In addition, we expect to include theoretical work focusing on computational aspects of neural networks and their properties (insofar as these are directly of interest to cognitive science), as well as a small number of review papers.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Topic Editors both for their overall quality and for their relevance to the themes of the Research Topic, which emphasize contemporary neural network architectures, application to large-scale data, novel theoretical developments, and close engagement with behavioral or neural measures. Frontiers hosts several article types, any of which could be appropriate. Please include in the abstract a statement on the proposed article type. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a manuscript for peer review. Acceptance of the abstract in no way implies that the manuscript will be accepted for publication. Note that only manuscripts based on accepted abstracts can be submitted.
Keywords: Cognitive Modeling, Large-scale Simulation, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning and Behavior
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