Introduction to Volume 11, Issue 2 of topiCS.

Abstract

This month's issue presents the topic Computational Approaches to Social Cognition, organized and edited by Topic Editors Fiery Cushman and Samuel Gershman, both of Harvard University. Regular readers of topiCS or of our sister journal, Cognitive Science, will feel at home with the computational approaches used in this set of papers and should be appreciative of their application to the study of social cognition. We remind our readers that, as always, our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, allows us to offer the Topic Editors’ introduction to their topics to all of our readers as a free download. topiCS encourages letters and commentaries on all topics, and proposals for new topics. Letters are typically 400–1,000 words (maximum of two published pages) and will be published without abstract or references (possibly 1–2 but usually none). Commentaries are often solicited by Topic Editors prior to the publication of their topic. However, commentaries after publication are also considered and should range between 1,000 and 2,000 words. Most commentaries would not have an abstract and would not include many references. The Executive Editor and the Senior Editorial Board (SEB) members are constantly searching for new and exciting topics for topiCS. Feel free to open communications with a short note to the Executive Editor (wayne.gray.cogsci@gmail.com) or an SEB member (SEB members are listed under the Editorial Board heading on the publisher's homepage for topiCS at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1756-8765/homepage/EditorialBoard.html).