Search for a New Editor of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN)

Deadline: February 15, 2026

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN) offers theoretical, review, and primary research articles on behavior and brain processes in humans. Coverage includes normal function as well as patients with injuries or processes that influence brain function: neurological disorders, including both healthy and disordered aging; and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. CABN is the leading vehicle for strongly psychologically motivated studies of brain-behavior relationships, through the presentation of papers that integrate psychological theory and the conduct and interpretation of the neuroscientific data. The range of topics includes perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision-making; emotional processes, motivation, reward prediction, and affective states; and individual differences in relevant domains, including personality. The role of the Editor is to select Associate Editors and an Editorial Board, handle manuscripts, assign manuscripts to Associate Editors, and interface with editorial staff and the Psychonomic Society Governing Board.

Appointment/Term/Transition
The term of the editorship is four years. The new incoming Editor will begin receiving new submissions January 1, 2027. The outgoing Editor’s team will continue to receive and act on revisions in 2027 for several months, and their names will continue to appear on the masthead. Toward the end of the incoming Editor's third year of service, the Publications Committee may invite the Editor to extend his or her term by an additional one to two years beyond the initial four years.

See https://link.springer.com/journal/13415 for more information about this high-impact, peer-reviewed journal. Here are a few details not provided on that page:

Submissions
These are the numbers of new submissions in each of the last three years:

	2024	2023	2022
New Submissions	390	306	258
Published	99	72	118
Acceptance Rate	25%	24%	45%
Total # of Views	993,969	810,119	543,385

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience publishes six issues per year. Work distribution is approximately 80 manuscripts for Editors and 40 manuscripts for each Associate Editor annually.  The Editor will appoint an Editorial Board of approximately 40 Consulting Editors, whose names will appear on the masthead. 

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience aspires to act on 99% of new submissions within 60 days (and to act on many of them considerably more quickly than that). The Editor typically triages a non-trivial minority of submissions (i.e., rejects without external review manuscripts that clearly are inappropriate for the journal).

Emoluments
The Editor receives a yearly honorarium of $20,000, paid in two installments per year (July/December).  The Editor’s airfare to the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (including a dinner meeting with the Publications Committee) is also covered (note that accommodations are not covered). There is no additional budget for secretarial assistance or course release (although Editors can negotiate with their universities for reduced teaching loads). Associate Editors receive an honorarium of $5,000/year, also paid in two installments per year (July/December). The Editor, Associate Editors, and Consulting Editors all receive free online access to the journal for each year of service. Upon request, they also receive a free hard copy subscription, If applicable, to the journal for that period.

Publisher/Support
Springer is the society’s publisher. The journal uses ScholarOne (aka ManuscriptCentral) to process and track submissions, select reviewers, file reviews, and so forth. PA Editorial Ltd. provides Editors with support in use of ScholarOne. The Publications Committee provides central support to the editor.

Copy editing, and other aspects of the production/printing/distributing process are handled by Springer (but the Psychonomic Society holds the copyright). Articles are published online within two weeks of acceptance.

Current Editorial Team
The current Editor is Diego A. Pizzagalli, University of California, Irvine, USA, and the Associate Editors are: Senne Braem, Ghent University, Belgium, Nancy A. Dennis, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, Stan B. Floresco, University of British Columbia, Canada, Carly Leonard, University of Colorado Denver, USA, and Daniela Schiller, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Information about the Search
The Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience Editor Search Committee currently consists of Marie Banich, University of Colorado,  Boulder, USA. Additional committee members will be added before the application deadline.

Nominations are now being solicited and will be considered until February 15, 2026. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. Please send the following via email to Marie Banich, Chair, CABN Search Committee, at marie.banich@colorado.edu, and/or Claudia von Bastian, Chair, PS Publications Committee, at c.c.vonbastian@sheffield.ac.uk:

• A brief message expressing interest in the editorship
• The nominee’s current curriculum vitae
• Names and email addresses of three referees who could speak to the nominee’s qualifications for the position. [Note that nominees and self-nominees identified through this initial process are not obligated to follow through and accept the editorship.]

In late February/early March, the Search Committee will select a short list from among the nominees, invite those individuals to provide additional information (in particular, a statement of their vision for Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience), and solicit input from their referees.

The Psychonomic Society is committed to scientific merit, which entails the inclusion of scientists of all genders, races, sexual orientations, countries of origin, geographical locations, and disciplinary expertise. Please critically examine your deliberations to eliminate biases that detract from our commitment to merit. The nominee should have strong scientific credentials and relevant editorial experience and the wide range of skills requisite to leading the journal in creative and effective ways. Our hope is that the new Editor will not only maintain Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience' strong record of scholarship and impact but will raise the journal’s profile in exciting new ways.

Questions
Please contact Marie Banich, Chair, marie.banich@colorado.edu, and/or Claudia von Bastian, Chair, PS Publications Committee, at c.c.vonbastian@sheffield.ac.uk.