PSYCHE
an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness
Below is the PSYCHE FAQ v4.0. The latest version of this FAQ can be obtained
by sending the message 'GET PSYFAQ ASCII' to .
It contains the following information:
Section 1: #GENERAL INTRODUCTION#
Section 2: #NOTES FOR AUTHORS#
Section 3: #BOOK REVIEWS#
Section 4: #SUBSCRIPTIONS TO PSYCHE#
Section 5: #PSYCHE-D#
Section 6: #ARCHIVAL INFORMATION#
Section 7: #THE EXECUTIVE EDITOR, ASSOCIATE EDITORS
AND EDITORIAL BOARD#
Section 1: #GENERAL INTRODUCTION#
PSYCHE (ISSN: 1039-723X) is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to
supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of
consciousness and its relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material
relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the
disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience,
Artificial Intelligence and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions
are particularly encouraged.
PSYCHE publishes a large variety of articles and reports for a diverse
academic audience four times per year. As an electronic journal, the
usual space limitations of print journals do not apply; however, the
editors request that potential authors do not attempt to abuse the
medium. PSYCHE also publishes a hard-copy version simultaneously with
the electronic version. Long articles published in the electronic
version may be abbreviated, synopsized or eliminated from the hardcopy
version.
The journal publishes from time to time all of the following varieties
of articles. Many of these (as indicated below) are peer reviewed; all
of them are reviewed by editorial staff.
Research Articles report original research by the author(s).
Articles may be either purely theoretical or experimental or some
combination of the two. Articles of special interest occasionally
will be followed by a selection of peer commentaries. Peer
reviewed.
Survey Articles report the state of the art in some area(s) of
research. These may be done in the form of a literature review or
annotated bibliography. More ambitious surveys will be peer
reviewed.
Discussion Notes critique previous research. Peer reviewed.
Tutorials introduce a subject area relevant to the study of
consciousness to non-specialists.
Letters provide an informal forum for expressing opinions on
editorial policy or upon material previously published in PSYCHE.
Screened by the editorial staff.
Abstracts summarise the contents of recently published journal
articles, books, and conference proceedings.
Book Reviews give an indication of the contents of recent books and
evaluate their merits as contributions to research and/or as
textbooks.
Announcements of forthcoming conferences, paper submission
deadlines, etc.
Advertisements of immediate interest to our audience will be
published: grants available; positions available; journal contents;
proposals for joint research; etc.
Section 2: #NOTES FOR AUTHORS#
Unsolicited submissions of original works within any of the above
categories are welcome. Prospective authors should send articles
directly to the Executive Editor. In the event that an article needs to
be modified for publication the author will be responsible for making
any alterations requested by the editors. When submitting articles
please follow the notes below:
1. Unless stated otherwise articles should be submitted in the standard
APA (American Psychological Association) Format. In addition certain
modifications have had to be made to make allowance for the electronic
medium of the journal.
2. The maximum line width should not exceed 72 characters, so that
people with any kind of terminal can read it without irritating
line-wrapping.
3. Remember that no matter what word-processing program you use, the
article must be saved in the 'ASCII' or 'Text' or 'DOS Text' format
prior to uploading and sending it as an e-mail message. Please do not
use any 'funny' characters, namely those with ASCII codes outside the
range 32 to 126 inclusive, as these may not be displayed in the same way
for other people.
4. Since attributes such as underlining and italics are not available in
ASCII format please use the following conventions:
#bold#
*italics*
^superscript^
~subscript~
_underline_
In the printed version these will be turned into the right markups.
5. Since page length loses its meaning in the electronic medium, authors
are asked to number sections, and paragraphs within sections. Thus 1.13
would refer to Section 1, Paragraph 13 with an article. Please follow
this convention even if there is only one section within the body of the
work.
6. Similarly, the footnoting/endnoting facility in word-processing
programs is not automatically convertible into ASCII/Text/DOS Text. So
you will have to do a bit of 'manual' conversion. The footnotes in the
text of the article should be set in 'pointy brackets', e.g. <1>, and
the actual citations should be placed as endnotes at the end of the
article.
7. All sections of the text should be divided by blank lines, namely
section headings, paragraphs, entries in the bibliography and individual
footnotes.
8. Submissions should be preceded by a header containing the title of
the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and
e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. The header should be formatted
like the following example.
TITLE: Title of the Paper
AUTHOR: YourFirstName YourLastName
AFFILIATION: YourCollegeorUniversity, YourDepartment
MAIL ADDRESS: StreetAddress, City, State, Zip, Country
E-MAIL ADDRESS: YourEMailAddress
PHONE: Office/(nnn) nnn-nnnn; Home/(nnn) nnn-nnn
9. After this header there should be an abstract of no more than 150
words. Please use the 'expanded' abstract form to outline your paper's
concept (including how it advances the extant literature on the
subject), your research hypothesis, your methodology, and, most
importantly, your results and their significance.
(Note: An abstract of 150 words at the mandated maximum line width of 72
characters will be approximately 13 lines long.)
10. The abstract should be followed 5 to 8 indexable keywords.
11. The list of keywords should be followed by the text of the paper
according to the text format described. This should then be followed by
the endnotes and the bibliography.
12. PSYCHE articles are intended to be widely distributed. The plain
text format required to achieve this is obviously restrictive. As far
as possible, articles should be written without the use of tables,
mathematical formulae, or diagrams. Where these are necessary, the
author should include where possible ASCII versions in the Plain ASCII
file.
It is possible to include more complex figures in the Rich-Text versions
of the journal. If these are needed for an article they should be
submitted as a second file in either LaTeX, TeX, PostScript, or dvi
formats. The text of the article should still be submitted as a Plain
ASCII file, with clear indications in the text where figures should be
inserted.
13. Authors of accepted material assign to PSYCHE the right to publish
the text both electronically and as printed matter and to make it
available in an electronic archive. However authors retain copyright of
their work and may republish it in any form they wish so long as PSYCHE
is clearly acknowledged as the original source of publication.
14. As PSYCHE is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience authors are
strongly encouraged to avoid jargon where ever possible, and where technical
terms are unavoidable to carefully introduce any used.
Section 3: #BOOK REVIEWS#
Publishers who wish to have books reviewed should send copies for
consideration to the editor in charge of book reviews:
Kevin Korb
Department of Computer Science
Monash University
CLAYTON VIC 3168
AUSTRALIA.
Section 4: #SUBSCRIPTIONS TO PSYCHE#
Subscriptions to the electronic version of PSYCHE may be initiated by
sending the one-line message:
SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L YourFirstName YourLastName
to LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET or LISTSERV%NKI.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.
There is also a paper version of the journal available. Currently costs for a
year's subscription (i.e. four issues) are set at $55 Australian for
individuals ($45 in US funds); and $110 for institutions ($90 in US funds).
All costs include postage and handling. Please direct all inquires to:
Patrick Wilken
Executive Editor PSYCHE
Department of Psychology
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
BUNDOORA VIC 3083
AUSTRALIA
Email: x91007@pitvax.xx.rmit.edu.au
Voice: +61 3 888 5450
Fax: +61 3 888 5919
Section 5: #PSYCHE-D#
PSYCHE-D is a moderated discussion group dedicated to supporting an
interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its
relation to the brain. Relevant perspectives are expected to come from,
among others, the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy,
Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Anthropology.
To subscribe, just send the command:
SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-D YourFirstName YourLastName
to LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET or LISTSERV%NKI.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.
Section 6: #ARCHIVAL INFORMATION#
_Using the GET Command_
To retrieve a file from NKI.BITNET send the following one line command
to LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET or LISTSERV%NKI.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu:
GET FILENAME FILETYPE
Of course, 'FILENAME FILETYPE' must be replaced by the actual name and
type of the file you wish to retrieve. In order to find out what files
are available for retrieval you may send the following command to
LISTSERV:
INDEX PSYCHE-L
The following filetypes are available: plain-text ASCII; PostScript;
dvi; and LaTeX. The following abbreviations are used for the
filetypes: ASCII for plain-text ASCII; PS for PostScript; DVI for DVI;
and TEX for LaTeX.
Only eight characters are allowed to be used in naming listserv files.
The following nomeclature has been adopted for individual files:
VNT-xxxx [where V=Volume Number; N=Issue Number; T=Type of
Material: A=Article, R=Review, O=Other; '-' just
a dash; xxxx= first three letters of author's
name]
An entire issue of the journal is stored according to to convention
'VNPSYCHE'. An index for an issue is stored as 'VNINDEX'; while the
complete index for all previous issues is stored as 'C-INDEX'.
Hence to retrieve in PostScript format a review written by Kevin Korb
for the first edition you would send the following command to
:
GET 11R-KORB PS
To get a complete copy of the first edition in LaTeX you would send the
command:
GET 11PSYCHE TEX
_Anonymous FTP_
Back issues of PSYCHE are available by anonymous FTP from the following sites:
#Australia#
ftp.cs.monash.edu.au (130.194.64.2) in the directory /psyche
#Europe#
marduk.iib.uam.es (150.244.14.11) in the directory /pub/Docs/Psyche-Journal
hcrl.open.ac.uk in the directory /pub/psyche
src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.10) /packages/e-serials
_GOPHER_
#Australia#
info.anu.edu.au (150.203.84.20)
#Europe#
marduk.iib.uam.es (150.244.14.11) look under /pub/Docs/Psyche-Journal
src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.10) look under /packages/e-serials
Section 7: #THE EXECUTIVE EDITOR, ASSOCIATE EDITORS
AND EDITORIAL BOARD#
_Executive Editor_
Patrick Wilken
Department of Psychology
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
BUNDOORA VIC 3083
AUSTRALIA
Email: x91007@pitvax.xx.rmit.edu.au
Voice: +61 3 888 5450
Fax: +61 3 888 5919
_Associate Editors_
George Buckner
Martin Marietta Corp.
79 Alexander Drive, Bldg 4501
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
grb@nccibm1.bitnet
David Chalmers
Philosophy Department
St. Louis, MO 63130
Washington University
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
dave@twinearth.wustl.edu
Winand Dittrich
University of Hertfordshire
Psychology Division
Hatfield AL10 9AB
UNITED KINGDOM
w.h.dittrich@hertfordshire.ac.uk
Guven Guzeldere
Stanford University
guven@csli.stanford.edu
Stephen Jackson
Department of Psychology,
UCNW, University of Wales,
Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG.
UNITED KINGDOM
pss042@bangor.ac.uk
Bob Jansen
CSIRO Division of Information Technology
Locked Bag 17,
NORTH RYDE NSW 2113
AUSTRALIA
jansen@syd.dit.csiro.au
Kevin B. Korb
Department of Computer Science
Monash University
CLAYTON VIC 3168
AUSTRALIA
korb@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
Stuart Watt
Human Cognition Research Laboratory
Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
UNITED KINGDOM
S.N.K.Watt@open.ac.uk
_Editorial Board_
Bernard Baars
The Wright Institute, Berkeley
John Bigelow
Monash University
Ned Block
MIT
Benjamin Bradley
James Cook University
Andy Clark
Washington University
Luciano da F. Costa
University of Sao Paulo
Eric Dietrich
SUNY Binghamton
Owen Flanagan
Duke University
Stuart Hameroff
University of Arizona
Stevan Harnad
Princeton University
Frank Jackson
Australian National University
Gert-Jan Lokhorst
Erasmus University
Peter Ludlow
SUNY Stony Brook
Bruce Mangan
University of California, Berkeley
David Milner
St. Andrews
Adriano Palma
Bogazici University
David Spiegel
Stanford University
Daniel Suthers
University of Pittsburgh
Steven Tipper
University of Wales, Bangor
Ron Wallis
University of Central Florida
Ingrid Zukerman
Monash University