Cognitive Processing is inaugurating a new section of the journal dedicated to Cognitive Economics, with the aim of emphasising innovative empirical or theoretical advances that rely on rigorous experimental and analytic methods drawn from across the main contributing disciplines of psychology, economics, and neuroscience / neuroeconomics. This responds to a shortage of journals where researchers in these disciplines read one another’s work and expect shared methodological standards that reflect what is most rigorous in each disciplinary culture.

As part of this launch, the Editors announce a Call for Papers for a Thematic Collection. The topic is cutting-edge approaches in the science of choice under uncertainty, including new experimental tasks, work with novel samples, innovative ways of incentivising subjects, or advances in statistical methods (econometric or psychometric) for incentivised experiments in the emerging constellation of cognitive economics. The purpose is to promote cross-disciplinary transfer of cutting-edge methods across the sciences that study both outcomes and mechanisms of choice under uncertainty.

Papers may focus on reports of empirical studies using advanced or innovative analytical methods; or theoretical work that extends the frontiers of econometrics or psychometrics for specific application to incentivised choice experiments (in the lab or the field). The publication format and the review process are designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary conversation. Contributions are welcome from economists, psychologists, neuroscientists, statisticians, social scientists, management scientists, and biologists. Papers may focus on work with humans or other species. We will ensure suitable interdisciplinary expert reviewing, and authors should indicate their primary disciplinary field to help guide reviewer recruitment to the Special Collection. Authors may list their names according to the convention of their discipline. Economist authors should include JEL codes.

Guest Editors:

Isabelle Brocas, University of Southern California

Paul Glimcher, New York University

Glenn W. Harrison, Georgia State University

For preparation of manuscripts and other information for authors, see https://link.springer.com/journal/10339/submission-guidelines

In addition to these general instructions, authors should indicate “Cognitive Economics” in the drop-down menu on topic sections, and specify in “Comments to Editors” that the submission is for the thematic collection.

Cognitive Processing is inaugurating a triennial series of thematic collections on spatial cognition, which will continue and replace the triennial series of International Conferences on Spatial Cognition in Rome that had nine editions between 2001 and 2024 (see www.icsc-rome.com for details), each of them accompanied by conference proceedings published in this journal (see https://link.springer.com/journal/10339/volumes-and-issues).

In continuity with the past conferences, the thematic collections are aimed at fostering interdisciplinary discussion and spreading new, innovative research on spatial cognition. Accordingly, space-related contributions from all disciplines of cognitive science (e.g., cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computational cognitive science, cognitive robotics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, philosophy of mind, etc.) will be considered.

Maintaining the triennial interval of the past conferences, the first thematic collection is scheduled for 2027 and will have a thematic focus on “Agency in spatial cognition”. In addition to contributions to this thematic focus, submissions on all kinds of topics related to spatial cognition are welcome. Submission is already possible and will remain possible till March 15, 2027.

We are very much looking forward to your submissions.

Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

Editor-in-Chief