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