Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) provides a home for the best human and animal research that uses neuroscience techniques to understand the social and emotional aspects of the human mind and human behavior.

The last decade has witnessed unprecedented convergence between the social sciences and the neurosciences resulting in several new areas of study including social cognitive neuroscience, social neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and neuroeconomics. In each of these areas, researchers examine the social and emotional aspects of the human mind by applying the techniques from the neurosciences.

SCAN will consider research that uses neuroimaging (fMRI, MRI, PET, EEG, MEG), neuropsychological patient studies, animal lesion studies, single-cell recording, pharmacological perturbation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. SCAN will also consider submissions that examine the mediational role of neural processes in linking social phenomena to physiological, neuroendocrine, immunological, developmental, and genetic processes. Additionally, SCAN will publish papers that address issues of mental and physical health as they relate to social and affective processes (e.g., autism, anxiety disorders, depression, stress, effects of child rearing) as long as cognitive neuroscience methods are used.

Finally, although SCAN aims to publish the best cutting edge research, its goal is also to be accessible to social scientists who do not themselves use neuroscience techniques. To this end, studies should be described in language that makes their implications for the social sciences clear. Additionally, short reviews will precede some articles in each issue to link the research conceptually to the broader social science issues to which they are relevant.

• PsycINFO Indexed Journal Collection 2012( Prod-11167)
• PsycINFO Indexed Mental Health Journals Collection 2012( Prod-11169)
• PsycINFO Indexed Clinical Medicine Journals Collection 2012( Prod-11170)
• PsycINFO Indexed Research, Education and Public Health Journals Collection 2012( Prod-11172)

• Author/Editor: Matthew D. Lieberman
• Specialty: Neuroscience
• Language:English
• Frequency:Quarterly
• Full Text Coverage: March 2009 - Present
• PDF Coverage : March 2009 - Present