Neuropsychology^®

Neuropsychology ^® publishes primarily original, empirical research on the relation between brain and human cognitive, emotional, and behavioral function. Sought are submissions of experimental, cognitive, behavioral, and neuroimaging research with implications for neuropsychological theory, research, and practice.

Articles that increase understanding of neuropsychological functions in both normal and disordered states and across the lifespan are encouraged. Neuropsychology focuses on basic research as well as on applied, clinical research that will stimulate systematic experimental, cognitive, and behavioral investigations as well as improve the effectiveness, range, and depth of clinical practice. Theoretical reviews, meta-analyses, and case reports with heuristic value are also published.

Neuropsychology seeks to be the vehicle for the best research and ideas in the field from throughout the world.

Disclaimer: APA and the Editors of Neuropsychology assume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors of its articles.

Editor

Gregory G. Brown
VA San Diego Healthcare System & University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Associate Editors

Vicki Anderson
Murdoch Children's Research Institute & Royal Children's Hospital

Erin D. Bigler
Brigham Young University

Agnes S. Chan
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Rosemary Fama
Stanford University School of Medicine

Thomas J. Grabowski
University of Washington

Konstantine K. Zakzanis
University of Toronto Scarborough

Consulting Editors

Kenneth M. Adams
University of Michigan

Peter A. Arnett
Pennsylvania State University

Ida Sue Baron
University of Virginia School of Medicine & George Washington University School of Medicine

William B. Barr
New York University School of Medicine

Michael R. Basso
University of Tulsa

Carrie E. Bearden
University of California, Los Angeles

Miriam Helen Beauchamp
University of Montreal

Linas A. Bieliauskas
University of Michigan

Susan Y. Bookheimer
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine

Robert A. Bornstein
Ohio State University College of Medicine

Cathy Catroppa
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, & Royal Children's Hospital

Raymond C. K. Chan
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Mei-chun Cheung
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Fergus I. M. Craik
Rotman Research Institute

Natalie L. Denburg
University of Iowa College of Medicine

Jacobus Donders
Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital

Daniel Erik Everhart
East Carolina University

Raul Gonzalez
Florida International University

Gerhard Stefan Hellemann
University of California, Los Angeles

Jason L. Hicks
Louisiana State University

Frank G. Hillary
Pennsylvania State University

Sterling C. Johnson
University of Wisconsin

Joel H. Kramer
University of California, San Francisco

William S. Kremen
University of California, San Diego

Maxine H. Krengel
VA Boston Healthcare

Kevin R. Krull
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Junghee Lee
University of California Los Angeles

Daniel H. Mathalon
University of California, San Francisco & San Francisco VA Healthcare System

Regina E. McGlichey
VA Boston Healthcare System

William P. Milberg
VA Boston Healthcare System

Daniel A. Nation
University of Southern California

Kristy A. Nielson
Marquette University

Bruce F. Pennington
University of Denver

Naftali Raz
Wayne State University

Anthony C. K. Ruocco
University of Toronto

Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe
Washington State University

Michael Seidenberg
Rosalind Franklin University

Paula K. Shear
University of Cincinnati

Tim J. Silk
Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Margriet Maria Sitskoorn
Tilburg University

Julie S. Snowden
Salford Royal NHS Trust & University of Manchester

Craig Stark
University of California, Irvine

William S. Stone
Harvard Medical School & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Julie C. Stout
Monash University

Michael Thomas
University of California, San Diego

Wesley K. Thompson
University of California, San Diego

Alexander I. Tröster
Barrow Neurological Institute

Frederick W. Unverzagt
Indiana University School of Medicine

Desiree A. White
Washington University in St. Louis

Christina Wierenga
VA San Diego Healthcare System & University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Christina S. Wilson
West Virginia University School of Medicine

Robert S. Wilson
Rush University Medical Center

John L. Woodard
Wayne State University

Steven Paul Woods
University of Houston

Peer Review Coordinator

Stephen Barnold
American Psychological Association

Abstracting and indexing services providing coverage of Neuropsychology^®

• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Psychology
• Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Embase (Excerpta Medica)
• ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Journal Citations Report: Social Sciences Edition
• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
• MEDLINE
• MLA International Bibliography
• OCLC
• PASCAL
• PsycINFO
• PsycLine
• SafetyLit
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• SCOPUS
• Social Sciences Citation Index

Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

Submission

Neuropsychology^® is now using a software system to screen submitted content for similarity with other published content. The system compares each submitted manuscript against a database of 25+ million scholarly publications, as well as content appearing on the open web.

This allows APA to check submissions for potential overlap with material previously published in scholarly journals (e.g., lifted or republished material). A similarity report will be generated by the system and provided to the Neuropsychology Editorial office for review immediately upon submission.

Starting in 2012, the completion of the Author(s) Agreement Checklist (PDF, 40KB) that signifies that authors have read this material and agree to adhere to the guidelines is now required. For new submissions, please be sure to include the submission checklist on the first page of your manuscript. Revisions do not need the checklist.

To submit to the Editorial Office of Gregory G. Brown, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word or Open Office format.

Submit Manuscript

The file must exactly copy, in all respects and in a single file, the complete APA-style printed version of the manuscript.

Authors with questions concerning manuscript submission should address these directly to the Neuropsychology Editorial Office.

In addition to addresses and phone numbers, please supply email addresses and fax numbers, if available, for potential use by the Editorial Office and later by the Production Office.

Keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss.

Neuropsychology is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed journal that typically publishes original research as full-length regular articles. A detailed description of the editorial coverage policy appears on the inside of the front cover of each issue.

Other article formats — such as meta-analyses, theoretical reviews, and case studies — will also be considered for publication.

Meta-Analyses and Theoretical Reviews

Manuscripts that present or discuss theoretical formulations of neuropsychology related topics, or that evaluate competing theoretical perspectives on the basis of published data, may also be accepted. Comprehensive reviews of the empirical literature in an area of study are acceptable if they contain a meta-analysis and/or present novel theoretical or methodological perspectives. Please see the journal's Policy on Meta-Analyses (PDF, 14KB).

Case Studies

Case studies will be considered if they raise or illustrate important questions that go beyond the single case and have heuristic value.

Language

The official language of APA journals is English. Neuropsychology frequently publishes manuscripts submitted by authors from non-English speaking countries. It is strongly recommended that authors not fluent in English have their manuscript edited for English usage prior to submission. If this is not possible, a notation to this effect should be included in the cover letter to the editor.

Although time constraints prevent the editor and associate editors from assisting authors with their written English, several organizations have extended offers to the journal to provide this service for authors; contact the editor for more information.

Abstract and Keywords

Starting in 2010, all manuscripts published in Neuropsychology will include a structured abstract of up to 250 words. The Abstract, presented in paragraph form, should be typed on a separate page (page 2 of the manuscript), and must include each of the following sections:

• Objective: A brief statement of the purpose of the study
• Method: A detailed summary of the participants as well as descriptions of the study design, measures, and procedures
• Results: A detailed summary of the primary findings that include effect sizes or confidence intervals with significance testing
• Conclusions: A summary of the research and implications of the findings

After the abstract, please supply three to five keywords.

Public Significance Statements

Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal Neuropsychology are now required to provide 2–3 brief sentences regarding the relevance or public health significance of their study or review described in their manuscript. This description should be included within the manuscript on the abstract/keywords page.

The public significance statement (similar to the Relevance section of NIH grant submissions) summarizes the significance of the study's findings for a public audience in one to three sentences (approximately 30-70 words long). It should be written in language that is easily understood by both professionals and members of the lay public. This statement supports efforts to increase dissemination and usage of research findings by larger and more diverse audiences.

When an accepted paper is published, these sentences will be boxed beneath the abstract for easy accessibility. All such descriptions will also be published as part of the Table of Contents, as well as on the journal's web page. This new policy is in keeping with efforts to increase dissemination and usage by larger and diverse audiences.

Open Science Badges

Neuropsychology supports practices that increase the reproducibility of scientific findings. These practices include publishing clear and complete methods, direct and conceptual replications, data from replication and generalization designs, publication of effect sizes and their confidence intervals, and both methods sharing and data sharing.

In support of this effort, Neuropsychology will use modified open science badges to identify papers for which authors are willing to share methods and data. The Editorial Board of Neuropsychology understands that there are reasons why data and methods might not be shareable (e.g., confidentiality, consortium agreements, funding contracts and regulations, expense, acknowledgement of investigator priority, data complexity). Thus, applying for a badge is optional, on a self-disclosure basis, and must be requested by the corresponding author.

With regards to data complexity, badges should only be requested for studies where behavioral data and information needed to interpret the behavioral results would be shared. The journal will also offer preregistration badges for treatment studies and encourages authors to preregister treatment and rehabilitation studies. Please email Neuropsychology’s Editor with questions about the application of this policy.

How to Apply for an Open Science Badge

At submission, authors must confirm that criteria have been fulfilled in a signed badge disclosure form (PDF, 33KB) that must be submitted as supplemental material. If all criteria are met as confirmed by the editor, the form will then be published with the article as supplemental material.

Authors should also note their eligibility for the badge(s) in the cover letter.

For all badges, items must be made available on an open access (or restricted public access, in the case of ICPSR) repository with a persistent identifier in a format that is time-stamped, immutable, and permanent. For the preregistered badge, this is an institutional registration system.

Data and materials must be made available under an open license allowing others to copy, share, and use the data, with attribution and copyright as applicable.

Available badges are:

Open Data:
All data necessary to reproduce the reported results that are digitally shareable are made publicly available. Information necessary for replication (e.g., codebooks or metadata) must be included.

 

Open Data: Protected Access:
A "PA" (Protected Access) notation may be added to open data badges if sensitive, personal data are available only from an approved third-party repository that manages access to data to qualified researchers through a documented process. To be eligible for an open data badge with such a notation, the repository must publicly describe the steps necessary to obtain the data and detailed data documentation (e.g. variable names and allowed values) must be made available publicly.

 

Open Materials:
All materials necessary to reproduce the reported results that are digitally shareable, along with descriptions of non-digital materials necessary for replication, are made publicly available.

 

Preregistered:
At least one study's design has been preregistered with descriptions of (a) the research design and study materials, including the planned sample size; (b) the motivating research question or hypothesis; (c) the outcome variable(s); and (d) the predictor variables, including controls, covariates, and independent variables. Results must be fully disclosed. As long as they are distinguished from other results in the article, results from analyses that were not preregistered may be reported in the article.

 

Preregistered+Analysis Plan:
At least one study's design has been preregistered along with an analysis plan for the research — and results are recorded according to that plan.

 

Abbreviations and Metrics

Nonstandard abbreviations should be introduced by placing the abbreviation in parentheses after the first occurrence of the term being abbreviated in both the abstract and the text. The metric system should be followed for all volumes, lengths, weights, and so on. Temperatures should be expressed in degrees Celsius (centigrade). Units should conform to the International System of Units (SI; see the Publication Manual).

Statistical Considerations

Whenever appropriate, statistical analyses should include effect sizes and confidence intervals and figures should include error bars. Authors are strongly encouraged to read the APA guidelines for statistical methods and reporting, L. Wilkinson and the Task Force on Statistical Inference, 1999, "Statistical Methods in Psychology Journals: Guidelines and Explanationsauarewrtyeewrt," American Psychologist, 54, 594–604 (PDF, 1171KB).

Randomized Clinical Trials: Use of CONSORT Reporting Standards

Neuropsychology requires the use of the CONSORT reporting standards (i.e., a checklist and flow diagram) for any study identified as a randomized clinical trial, consistent with the policy established by the Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association. CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) offers a standard way to improve the quality of such reports and to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of a clinical trial.

Manuscripts that are identified/classified as randomized clinical trials are required to include a flow diagram of the progress through the phases of the trial and a checklist that identifies where in the manuscript the various criteria are addressed. (The checklist should be placed in an Appendix of the manuscript for review purposes.) When a study is not fully consistent with the CONSORT statement, the limitations should be acknowledged and discussed in the text of the manuscript.

For follow-up studies of previously published clinical trials, authors should submit a flow diagram of the progress through the phases of the trial and follow-up. The above checklist information should be completed to the extent possible, especially for the Results and Discussion sections of the manuscript.

Visit the CONSORT Statement Web site for more details and resources.

Tables

Each table should be submitted with the manuscript file. Each should start on a separate page and must be numbered and labeled with an appropriate title. All tables must be self-explanatory.

Masked Review

Masked reviews are required.

Each copy of a manuscript should include a separate title page with authors' names and affiliations, and these should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. Footnotes that identify the authors should be typed on a separate page.

It is the authors' responsibility to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities.

Please ensure that the final version of your manuscript for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Submission Letter

Include the following in your submission letter:

• a statement of compliance with APA ethical standards
• a statement that the manuscript or data have not been published previously and that they are not under consideration for publication elsewhere
• a statement to reflect that all listed authors have contributed significantly to the manuscript and consent to their names on the manuscript
• a brief statement of how the article content is relevant to the domain of Neuropsychology as described in the journal inside cover

Failure to include any of the requirements above may result in a delay of the review process. On an optional basis, authors may provide the names and email addresses of up to three qualified potential reviewers for the manuscript.

Manuscript Acceptance

Upon acceptance of their manuscript for publication, authors are expected to provide permissions, signed and dated copyright release and disclosure of interest forms, and a statement of compliance with APA ethical standards.

Proofs

All proofs must be corrected and returned within 48 hours of receipt. Any extensive nonessential changes and extensive changes due to author error may incur charges.

With the proofs will be a form providing the author with the opportunity to order reprints. Direct inquiries to the APA Journals Office can be made at 202-336-5540; fax 202-336-5549.

Manuscript Preparation

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6^th edition). Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 3 of the Publication Manual).

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Style is available on the APA Style website.

Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations, computer code, and tables.

Display Equations

We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations, rather than the equation support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.

To construct your equations with MathType or Equation Editor 3.0:

• Go to the Text section of the Insert tab and select Object.
• Select MathType or Equation Editor 3.0 in the drop-down menu.

If you have an equation that has already been produced using Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 and you have access to the full version of MathType 6.5 or later, you can convert this equation to MathType by clicking on MathType Insert Equation. Copy the equation from Microsoft Word and paste it into the MathType box. Verify that your equation is correct, click File, and then click Update. Your equation has now been inserted into your Word file as a MathType Equation.

Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.

Computer Code

Because altering computer code in any way (e.g., indents, line spacing, line breaks, page breaks) during the typesetting process could alter its meaning, we treat computer code differently from the rest of your article in our production process. To that end, we request separate files for computer code.

In Online Supplemental Material

We request that runnable source code be included as supplemental material to the article. For more information, visit Supplementing Your Article With Online Material.

In the Text of the Article

If you would like to include code in the text of your published manuscript, please submit a separate file with your code exactly as you want it to appear, using Courier New font with a type size of 8 points. We will make an image of each segment of code in your article that exceeds 40 characters in length. (Shorter snippets of code that appear in text will be typeset in Courier New and run in with the rest of the text.) If an appendix contains a mix of code and explanatory text, please submit a file that contains the entire appendix, with the code keyed in 8-point Courier New.

Tables

Use Word's Insert Table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article.

Academic Writing and English Language Editing Services

Authors who feel that their manuscript may benefit from additional academic writing or language editing support prior to submission are encouraged to seek out such services at their host institutions, engage with colleagues and subject matter experts, and/or consider several vendors that offer discounts to APA authors.

Please note that APA does not endorse or take responsibility for the service providers listed. It is strictly a referral service.

Use of such service is not mandatory for publication in an APA journal. Use of one or more of these services does not guarantee selection for peer review, manuscript acceptance, or preference for publication in any APA journal.

Submitting Supplemental Materials

APA can place supplemental materials online, available via the published article in the PsycARTICLES^® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.

References

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the References section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

• Journal Article:
  Hughes, G., Desantis, A., & Waszak, F. (2013). Mechanisms of intentional binding and sensory attenuation: The role of temporal prediction, temporal control, identity prediction, and motor prediction. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 133–151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028566
• Authored Book:
  Rogers, T. T., & McClelland, J. L. (2004). Semantic cognition: A parallel distributed processing approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Chapter in an Edited Book:
  Gill, M. J., & Sypher, B. D. (2009). Workplace incivility and organizational trust. In P. Lutgen-Sandvik & B. D. Sypher (Eds.), Destructive organizational communication: Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of organizing (pp. 53–73). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

Figures

Graphics files are welcome if supplied as Tiff or EPS files. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file.

The minimum line weight for line art is 0.5 point for optimal printing.

For more information about acceptable resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other figure issues, please see the general guidelines.

When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

APA offers authors the option to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.

The same caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., "the red (dark gray) bars represent") as needed.

For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

• $900 for one figure
• An additional $600 for the second figure
• An additional $450 for each subsequent figure

Permissions

Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic form any copyrighted work, including test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).

On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.

• Download Permissions Alert Form (PDF, 13KB)

Publication Policies

APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.

See also APA Journals^® Internet Posting Guidelinesauarewrtyeewrt.

APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research).

• Download Disclosure of Interests Form (PDF, 38KB)

In light of changing patterns of scientific knowledge dissemination, APA requires authors to provide information on prior dissemination of the data and narrative interpretations of the data/research appearing in the manuscript (e.g., if some or all were presented at a conference or meeting, posted on a listserv, shared on a website, including academic social networks like ResearchGate, etc.). This information (2–4 sentences) must be provided as part of the Author Note.

Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.

• For manuscripts not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
  Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Form (PDF, 83KB)
• For manuscripts funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
  Wellcome Trust or Research Councils UK Publication Rights Form (PDF, 34KB)

Ethical Principles

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original data, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.13).

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "after research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Specifically, APA expects authors to have their data available throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the date of publication.

Authors are required to state in writing that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment.

• Download Certification of Compliance With APA Ethical Principles Form (PDF, 26KB)

The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.

Other Information

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