EDITORIAL

摘要

Dear Readers, I am delighted to have completed my first year as the Editor-in-chief of Connection Science. At the beginning of the year, we revised our aims and scope to give greater relevance to current research efforts in cognitive science and artificial intelligence in the journal. In particular, we re-dedicated the journal to "to exploring the convergence of the analytic and synthetic sciences of mind" whilst retaining our focus on "connectionist, probabilistic, dynamical, and evolutionary approaches, that explore distributed adaptive computation and emergent order". Submissions to the journal have been healthy although it is taking some time for the change in focus to feed through. I would therefore strongly encourage potential authors to read carefully the aims and scope when considering a submission. The areas in which we are interested are broad, however, it is not our intention to compete with more mainstream journals in domains such as machine learning, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation. Instead, our goal for Connection Science is to re-kindle the strong link to biological cognition and computation that has been the core interest of the journal since it was originally founded.