[CogSci] Advance Notice: Journal of Memory and Language Special Issue on the Memory-Language Interface

[Christopher Jarrold]

Dear colleagues

Dr Brian Dillon and myself are delighted to be acting as Guest Editors for a forthcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Memory and Language on the topic of the ‘Memory-Language Interface’.

In addition to obviously being well placed for JML, we believe that this special issue will showcase the fantastic work in each of the memory and language areas that informs our understanding of the other, as well as providing a forum for articles that directly integrate the two domains.

The text from the upcoming formal invitation to submit to the Special Issue follows below, see also:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-memory-and-language/about/call-for-papers#special-issue-on-the-memory-language-interference
However, it is important to note that the portal for submissions to the Special Issue will not open until 7th August 2023. This message is therefore just to alert you to the fact that this will be available then, and to encourage you in the meantime to begin to think about submissions you might make to this Special Issue. We will send round a further reminder of the opening of the submission portal nearer the time.

Pass feel free to pass on this message widely to any other colleagues who might be interested in it, and please don’t hesitate to contact either of us with any questions (see emails below).

Yours
Chris Jarrold, Brian Dillon

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The Journal of Memory and Language is an outlet for high-quality research on both memory and language processing. Over the years, the research associated with each topic has sometimes proceeded in an independent fashion, with each field having the potential to be characterized by its own research questions, techniques, and theoretical perspectives. But there is a reason that JML publishes both lines of research: There are deep, important connections between these literatures, and there is a wealth of research that has benefitted from a close collaboration across these research traditions. For example, working memory systems are responsible for the short-term maintenance of information in the support of higher order cognition, and language comprehension and production are prime examples of such cognition. Memory systems also play a key role in learning at multiple time scales, and language researchers have leveraged this observation to study the learning processes that support language acquisition.

The goal of this special issue is to highlight research at the memory - language interface, broadly construed. We seek submissions that leverage insights from theories of memory to advance our understanding of the key principles of language processing, and submissions that leverage insights from language to advance our understanding of the key principles of memory. We intend both memory and language to be construed broadly: Submissions concerning working memory, episodic memory, long-term/semantic memory, and procedural memory are all welcome, as are submissions that concern language acquisition, comprehension, and production. In addition, we welcome submissions that approach these questions in diverse languages and in diverse populations, including developmental, aging, non-WEIRD, multilingual, and L2 populations.

We specifically seek submissions that do at least one of the following:
- Present new, theoretically significant empirical findings from language that bear on broader issues concerning memory.
- Present new, theoretically significant empirical findings from memory that bear on issues concerning language.
- Present a novel theoretical synthesis that joins insights from theories of language processing and theories of memory to advance our understanding in either area.

Important dates:

Submissions open: August 7th, 2023

Submissions closed: January 7th, 2023

We will aim to issue decisions on submitted manuscripts within three months of receipt.
All submissions will undergo normal peer-review.

Pre-submission proposals and other questions may be directed to the Guest Editors: Brian Dillon (bwdillon at umass.edu<mailto:bwdillon at umass.edu>) and Chris Jarrold (c.jarrold at bristol.ac.uk<mailto:c.jarrold at bristol.ac.uk>).

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