PURPOSE

EDITORIAL STAFF

EDITORIAL BOARD

SPONSORSHIP

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

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COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTS

PMI publishes its official peer-reviewed international journal of Cognitive Technology [ISSN: 1091-8388], edited by Dr. Douglas Herrmann. Cognitive Technology advances practical application of cognitive psychology. Cognitive Technology is co-sponsored by The Society for Cognitive Rehabilitation, represented by Co-Editor, Rick Parente', Ph.D., and The Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, represented by Co-Editor Johnathan Schooler, Ph.D. It enjoys a distinguished Editorial Advisory Board as well as publication support from Indiana State University, Terre Haute.

PURPOSE

The Purpose of Cognitive Technology is to provide an innovative forum and communication channel to promote the sharing of scientific knowledge helpful to both basic and applied researchers. Both groups have more to offer the other than is now being accomplished, and Cognitive Technology is intended to close this long standing gap. Dr. Herrmann is the founding Executive Director of the Practical Memory Institute, a center of memory excellence established in 1995 to help the general public improve practical memory skills worldwide
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Cognitive Technology provides a forum for scientific analysis of new products of technology that aid a person's cognitive functioning (comprehension, perception, memory, problem solving and reasoning). Articles should advance the knowledge and practical application of cognitive psychology as it relates to the use of technology and human memory. Appropriate articles will evaluate and/or investigate new cognitive technology in the form of a procedure, as advanced in an article or a book, or a device that is hypothesized to facilitate cognitive functioning. Articles can range from empirical testing of a technology to theoretical analysis of a class of devices serving certain cognitive functions. With the exception of short reports of experimental analysis, all articles should be grounded in the literature. Excerpts and abstracts of articles will be available on PMI's World Wide

Web site: www.MemoryZine.com

EDITORIAL STAFF

The editorial staff is comprised of several persons which include three Editors

	Douglas J. Herrmann, Ph.D., Coordinating Editor, Psychology Department Chair, Indiana State University, Terre Haute
	Rick Parente', Ph.D., Towson State University
	Jonathan Schooler, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Three Associate Editors

	Maria Brandimonte, Ph.D., University of Trieste, Italy
	Sharon Menaldino, Ed.D., Moss Rehabilitation Hospital, Springfield, PA
	Carol Yoder, Ph.D., Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Two Production Editors

	Virgil Sheets, Indiana State University, Terre Haute
	Ms. Judy Swez, Indiana State University, Terre Haute

EDITORIAL BOARD
The Editorial Board includes:

Herman Buschke, M.D.—Einstein Medical Center

Kevin Cox, Ph.D.—City University of Hong Kong

Tom Crook, Ph.D.—Memory Assessment Clinics

Ken Deffenbacher, Ph.D.—University of Nebraska

Frank Durso, Ph.D.—University of Oklahoma

Preston Harley, Ph.D.- NeuroPsychology Institute, Inc.

John Harris, Ph.D.—Consultancy, Cambridge, England

Paula Hertel, Ph.D.—Trinity University

Robert Hoffman, Ph.D.—Adelphi University

Margaret J. Intons Peterson, Ph.D.—Indiana University

Tom Landauer, Ph.D.—University of Colorado

Steve Lewandowsky, Ph.D.—University of Western Australia

Von Leirer, Ph.D.—Decision Systems

Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D. - University of California at Irvine

Jonathon Marsh, M.A.—Hong Kong University

Cathy McEvoy, Ph.D.—University of South Florida

Leslie Miller, Ph.D.—Wilson Learning Corporation

Peter Morris, Ph.D.—University of Lancaster

Ray Nickerson, Ph.D.—Tufts University

Donald Norman, Ph.D.—University of California at San Diego

David Payne, Ph.D.—State University of New York at Binghamton

Kathy Pezdek, Ph.D.—Claremont University

Douglas Raybeck, Ph.D.—Hamilton College

George Rebok, Ph.D.—The Johns Hopkins University

John T. E. Richardson, Ph.D.—Brunel University

Albert Rizzo, Ph.D.—University of Southern California

Jerry Sehulster, Ph.D.—University of Connecticut

Michael Sewall, M.S.—Mohawk Valley Community College

Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D.—Yale University

Robert Sykes, Ph.D.—University College of Swansea


PUBLISHER

Robert Rager — Compact Disc Incorporated

SPONSORSHIP

Cognitive Technology is sponsored in part by the Indiana State University, Terre Haute, by the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), and by the Society of Cognitive Rehabilitation. For more subscription information (US$60.00–individual / US$200.00–institutional) contact: Dr. Herrmann or webmaster@memoryzine.com

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

The journal will publish five kinds of articles and an ongoing Inventory of Cognitive Technologies. These articles involve reports of:

Theoretical Analysis—analysis of theory as it explains and guides technology; as it illustrates how application research and experience calls for modification of basic theory; or as it explains why applied cognitive research is conducted or should be conducted.

Research Finding—analysis of a technology in the context of an experiment. This kind of analysis can be presented by a short report or as a detailed long report.

Product Review—analysis of a technology by reviewers who specialize in cognitive psychology.

Consumer Analysis—analysis of a technology by consumers, quantified and reported by a specialist in cognitive psychology. This kind of analysis can involve an analysis of responses of individual consumers or of the reactions of focus groups.

Book Review—analysis of a book that directly or indirectly is pertinent to those interested in cognitive technology.

Sample Book Review.

Inventory of Cognitive Technologies

As a service, and in keeping with the mission of focusing on the development of cognitive technologies, the journal will maintain the Inventory of Cognitive Technologies. This inventory is simply a listing of technologies reported to the journal. Each technology is described in the Inventory in a sentence. A citation is provided for those who want more information about the technology. Contributors to this section of the journal are acknowledged in a later issue.

Topics of Articles

All articles are concerned with essential questions about cognitive technology. How does the technology facilitate cognition? Is this facilitation greater than that provided by current methods for task performance? If not, what cognitive process is facilitated by the technology? To what extent was the product development guided by cognitive psychology? To what extent does the research suggest a need for a modification of basic cognitive theory?

Since ecological research mimics the natural environment, reports of ecological research (Neisser, 1976, 1978) should specify the conditions in which the research could be applied. Applicable research (investigations that are ecologically valid and clearly suggest an application (Herrmann, 1995), should go further and take care to indicate the situations and conditions to which the findings might apply (Herrmann & Gruneberg, 1993). Application research, specifically designed to bear on a potential product or procedure, should provide the most precise boundary conditions of results ( Berger, Pezdek, & Banks, 1987).

Articles are intended solely to advance the knowledge and application of cognitive psychology and its application. Technological facilitation of any cognitive function is appropriate subject matter for an article. For example, articles may address applications concerning iconic memory, short-term memory, working memory, long-term memory, encoding, comprehension, reasoning and problem solving. No article may endorse a particular product.

Manuscripts that address any aspect of cognitive technology will be considered for publication. Thus, basic research that clearly addresses applications may be published, especially basic research that has been carried out specifically to address a certain real world problem. Articles that report application research are expected to indicate the basic literature pertinent to the research. All articles should attempt to demonstrate the relevance of its findings and/or conclusions for basic theory.

Basic and applied researchers often hold somewhat different views about the philosophy of science and read somewhat different literatures. Because this journal seeks to provide a channel of communication between basic and applied researchers (Herrmann & Raybeck, in press; Herrmann, in press), all articles should endeavor to speak to both audiences. Manuscripts submitted to Cognitive Technology should anticipate differences between the author's background and that of readers, explaining perspectives and procedures to the wider audience of basic and applied researchers.

Procedures for Submission of Manuscripts

Individuals interested in publishing in Cognitive Technology should submit four copies of a manuscript and in electronic form to any of the editors.

The style of manuscripts should follow the publication standards of the American Psychological Association. An excellent example of quality of writing and the rigor of research desired in eventual publications may be found in the journal, Applied Cognitive Psychology, and in the research presented at the meetings of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition.

References

Berger, D. E., Pezdek, K., & Banks, W. P. (1987). Applications of cognitive psychology: Problem solving, education, and computing. Hillsdale, N. J.: Erlbaum.

Herrmann, D. J. (1996). Applied Cognitive Psychology versus Applicable Cognitive Psychology (a review of Cognitive Psychology Applied edited by Chizuko Izawa). Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Herrmann, D. J. (2002). The Relationship Between Basic Research and Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. In C. P. Thompson, D. J. Herrmann, D. Bruce, D. G. Payne, J. D. Read, J. D., & M. P. Toglia, M. P. (Eds.). Event Memory: Papers from the first SARMAC Conference. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Herrmann, D. J. & Gruneberg, M. (1993) The need to expand the horizons of the "Practical Aspects of Memory" Movement to applied research. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7, 553-566.

Herrmann, D. J., & Raybeck, D. (2001). The relationship between basic and applied research cultures. In D. G. Payne and F. G. Conrad (Eds.). Intersections in basic and applied memory research. Mawah, N. J.: Erlbaum.

Neisser, U. (1978a). Cognition and reality. San Francisco: Freeman.

Neisser, U. (1967). Cognitive Psychology. New York: Appleton, Century, and Crofts.

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