Previously published in two sections, Human Experimental Psychology (Section A) and Comparative and Physiological Psychology (B) the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology merged in 2006 to form a single journal.

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology is a leading international journal that publishes original articles on any topic within the field of experimental psychology. The journal publishes Rapid Communication articles (under 3,000 words) reporting novel techniques or ground breaking results, as well as substantial experimental reports.  The journal offers an Open Access option, approved by the Wellcome Trust and other funders.

The journal is keen to encourage submissions across a broad range of areas in experimental psychology, including those reporting work on human and animal subjects. Manuscripts including the use of functional brain imaging are also encouraged, as are papers reporting computational modelling of behavioural data.

QJEP offers a competitive publication time-scale. Accepted Rapid Communications have priority in the publication, and usually appear within a few months. Full articles appear on-line, through the iFirst system, making them available to readers several months prior to paper publication.

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SPECIAL ISSUES

Issues devoted to a particular topic are occasionally published in this journal. These special issues are sent free to subscribers in that year, and are available to purchase separately as books for non-subscribers. Click on the titles below for more information or to order, or find out about forthcoming Special Issues.

• Grounding Cognition in Perception and Action
  Guest Editors: Martin Fischer and Rolf A. Zwaan
  Volume 61, Issue 6 (2008) ISBN: 978-1-84169-843-4
• Cognitive Gerontology
  A Special Issue of QJEP Section A
  Guest Editor: Patrick Rabbitt
  Volume 58, Issue 1 (January 2008 - updated edition) ISBN: 978-1-84169-981-3
• Neurocognitive Approaches to Developmental Disorders: A Festschrift for Uta Frith 
  Guest Editors: Dorothy V.M. Bishop, Margaret J. Snowling and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
  Volume 61, Issue 1 (December 2007) ISBN: 978-1-84169-839-7
• Human Contingency Learning: Recent Trends in Research and Theory 
  Guest Editors: Tom Beckers, Jan de Houwer and Helena Matute
  Volume 60, Issue 3 (March 2007) ISBN: 978-1-84169-824-3
• The Role of Medial Temporal Lobe in Memory and Perception
  A Special Issue of QJEP Section B
  Guest Editors: Kim Graham and David Gaffan
  Volume 58, Issues 3-4 (August 2005) ISBN: 978-1-84169-998-1