Back to the main Announcements page.
Announcements may be submitted here.

Other Announcements

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics: Changes for 2012

More Frequent publication: AP&P will move from 8 issues to 10 issues a year in 2012. This is in response to the increase of 1100 published pages since 2008. Individual issues were becoming very long. We will not, however, be increasing the number of published papers: Indeed, it is possible that the total number of pages will shrink in 2012 (see the next point).

New submission requirements and review criteria: Authors will be asked to succinctly state the significance of their work upon submission. (Of course, authors should always explain the significance of their work to their readers). Reviewers will be asked to evaluate a submission's significance to the field in addition to its technical correctness and theoretical rigor. This is likely to increase the rejection rate. Space constraints mean that some papers that are scientifically "acceptable" will not be published in AP&P because they will not clear this explicit significance hurdle.

Increased use of color: Given free use of color in the electronic versions of AP&P papers, we will encourage wider use of color in figures. Editors can, at their discretion and up to a page limit, request print publication in color as well, at no cost to the author.

Increased use of movies, sound files, etc: We are able to incorporate video and audio into the electronic versions of AP&P papers and we encourage authors to use this feature to more clearly illustrate visual and auditory stimuli. (We apologize to those working in touch, vestibular, taste, and smell domains: The technology isn't there yet!)

We welcome all comments and inquiries.

Jeremy Wolfe (editor) – wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu

Back to the main Announcements page.
Announcements may be submitted here.