Announce the creation of the Cognitive Science Network (CSN)

We are pleased to announce the creation of the Cognitive Science Network (CSN). It
will provide a worldwide, online community for research in all areas of cognitive
science, following the model of other subject matter networks within SSRN.

We expect CSN to become a comprehensive online resource for research in cognitive

science, providing scholars with access to current work in their field and facilitating
research and scholarship.

CSN's founding director is Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve
University - Department of Cognitive Science.

Initially, CSN will begin with the following 7 subject matter eJournals, and
subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase until October 2009.

COGNITION & CULTURE: CULTURE, COMMUNICATION, DESIGN, ETHICS,

MORALITY, RELIGION, RHETORIC, & SEMIOTICS

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Culture.html

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Editor: Todd Oakley, Associate Chair, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Case
Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Cognition & Culture focuses on the cognitive study of cultures as creations
of human minds in environments. Its scope includes research on cultural manifestations,
their differences and incommensurabilities, and their expressive and semantic
regularities and universals. This eJournal announces working papers, meetings, and
events associated with interdisciplinary research projects and aims at encouraging
collaboration across disciplines. It presents research in cognitive science having to do
with such fields as design, ethics, history, jurisprudence, morality, philosophy, politics,
religion, sociality, science, and technology.

COGNITION & THE ARTS

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html

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Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -

Department of Cognitive Science

Description: A publication dedicated to the artful mind and its relationship to the full
range of higher-order human cognition. All scientific approaches are welcome,
including developmental, evolutionary, linguistic, and comparative. Cognition & the
Arts construes artistic behavior broadly, to include not only the various recognized
genres of the arts but also design, style, and performance, throughout the lifecourse.
COGNITION IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY

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Editors: Gilles Fauconnier, Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of

California, San Diego, and Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve
University - Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Mathematical insight, scientific discovery, and technological innovation

are hallmarks of higher-order human cognition. Cognition in Mathematics, Science, and
Technology is dedicated to the cognitive science of mathematics, science, and
technology - in phylogenetic descent, ontogenetic transformation, and historical action.

COGNITION LINGUISTICS: COGNITION, LANGUAGE, GESTURE

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognitive-Linguistics.html

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Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -

Department of Cognitive Science

Description: "Cognitive linguistics goes beyond the visible structure of language and
investigates the considerably more complex backstage operations of cognition that
create grammar, conceptualization, discourse, and thought itself. The theoretical
insights of cognitive linguistics are based on extensive empirical observation in multiple
contexts, and on experimental work in psychology and neuroscience. Results of
cognitive linguistics, especially from metaphor theory and conceptual integration
theory, have been applied to wide ranges of nonlinguistic phenomena." - Gilles
Fauconnier. 2006. "Cognitive Linguistics." Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. John
Wiley & Sons.

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

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Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -

Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Cognitive Neuroscience is dedicated to research on the neurobiological

substrate of higher-order human cognition. All methodologies are welcome -
philosophical to physiological, modeling to mapping, statistical to individual case study
- in forging a research initiative that transcends the limitations of any one discipline or
paradigm.
COGNITIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE

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Editors: Mathew D. McCubbins, Professor of Political Science, Chancellor's Associates

Chair, University of California, San Diego - Political Science, Adjunct Professor & Co-
Director of the USC-CalTech Center for the Study of Law and Politics, University of
Southern California - Gould School of Law, and Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case
Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Mental events, however distributed, provide the defining problems of the
social sciences. What are our basic cognitive operations? How do we use them in
judgment, decision, action, reason, choice, persuasion, expression? Do voters know
what they need to know? How do people choose? What are the best incentives? When is
judgment reliable? Can negotiation work? How do cognitive conceptual resources
depend on social and cultural location? How do certain products of cognitive and
conceptual systems come to be entrenched as publicly-shared knowledge and method?
Economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and all other social
scientists refer as a matter of course to mental events and typically must assume some
general outline of what those mental events can be and how they can arise. They
explore networks of mental events in social systems and in social cognition. Given this
convergence of cognitive science and the social sciences at their intellectual cores, and
the increasing body of research activity at their intersection, the Cognitive Science
Network provides an eJournal to track and distribute new and classic research in the
emerging field of cognitive social science.

EMERGENCE OF COGNITION

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Emergence-Cognition.html

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Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -

Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Dedicated to the study of the emergence of cognition, especially human

higher-order cognition, phylogenetically and ontogenetically, in evolution and
development.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
You can subscribe to the eJournals by clicking on the "subscribe" links listed above.
You can also subscribe to all of the eJournals at once by clicking here:
http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=CSN-all-inclusive-journal

Individual subscriptions to the CSN eJournals will be free during the start-up phase,
ending October 2009. After that, individual subscriptions, for all CSN eJournals, will be
$40 per year. Organizational Site Subscriptions will also be available.
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Sincerely,

Mark Turner
Director
Cognitive Science Network

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