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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt;">ANNOUNCING A NEW SPECIAL ISSUE</span></b><br>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt;">or, as we say in the Open Access, On-Line World,</span></b><b><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-size:20pt"></span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt;">A New Thematic Series</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt;">for</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0px"><b><i><u><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt;">Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="margin:0px;font-size:18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></u></b><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt;">(CRPI)</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Face coverings:</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Considering the implications for face perception and speech communication</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times;">Deadline: manuscripts should be submitted before</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:16pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times;"><b>September
1, 2021</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Guest editors</span></font></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="5"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">Dr Karen Lander – University of Manchester (UK),</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px"><a href="mailto:Karen.Lander@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">Karen.Lander@manchester.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font><font size="5"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">Dr Gabrielle Saunders – University of Manchester (UK),</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px"><a href="file:///C:/Users/MBRXSKL2/Downloads/Gabrielle.Saunders@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">Gabrielle.Saunders@manchester.ac.uk</span></a></span></font><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"></span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0px"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(254, 254, 254)"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In response to the global covid-19 pandemic, many governments around the
world around the world required (or strongly) recommended the wearing of face coverings (masks) in public spaces – many of these restrictions remain in place today. While the wearing of face coverings to prevent spread of disease is fairly common in some
Asian countries, it seems likely that their use elsewhere will continue, even after the immediate risk of covid-19 subsides.</span></font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="4"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); font-size: 11pt;">Face coverings obscure the mouth and nose area of the face, leaving just the eye
area exposed. As a result, they limit the information that a listener/observer can obtain from the face. This impacts perception of facial expressions and emotions, as well as access to cues for lip reading.</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(254, 254, 254)"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">Indeed,
wearing a mask is known to conceal cues to human expression recognition (Carbon et al., 2020) and adversely affects human interaction and communication (Saunders et al., 2020; Wild & Korneld, 2021). Wearing a mask muffles the sound of the voice and makes it
more challenging to understand speech by covering up cues to speech available from the face (Mheidly, Fares, Zalzale & Fares, 2020). Furthermore, there are reports of difficulties of matching for identity when face coverings are worn (Carragher & Hancock,
2020) and crimes being conducted with face coverings being used a means of disguise (Babwin & Dazio, 2020; Southall & Van Syskle, 2020). Face masks also present a challenge to computational face and speech recognition systems and algorithms, leading to problems
in identity verification and speech recognition (</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">Ngan, Grother & Hanaoka, 2020). </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="4"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">The proposed thematic series will highlight new work that characterizes the consequences of
face masks on (a) the recognition and interpretation of facial expressions and emotions, (b) communication and social interactions, and (c) human and computational identity recognition and disguise. These will be addressed within the broad context of ways
in which face perception and communication may change, comparisons of the social impact of face coverings in societies in which they are common versus those in which they are a new phenomenon, and changes in perceived interpersonal communication.</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(254, 254, 254)"></span></font></p>
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<div style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;background-color:white"><font size="4"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><font><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The overall goal is to develop accounts of how and why face coverings influence our
face perception and speech communication, with specific attention to the relevant cognitive and behavioural mechanisms, as well as the practical implications and limitations.</span></font></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If you have questions as to whether your work would be a good fit for this Article Collection, we welcome presubmission
inquiries. Please send an abstract and inquiry to one of the Editors.</span></font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="4"><font><b><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">CRPI</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></b><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">is
the open access journal of the Psychonomic Society. Its mission is to publish</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px"><a href="https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-016-0011-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">use-inspired
basic research</span></a></span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">: fundamental cognitive research that grows from hypotheses about real-world problems.</span><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">As
with all Psychonomic Society journals, submissions to CRPI are subject to rigorous peer review.</span></font><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For manuscripts accepted for the special issue, the publication fee may be fully or partially waived depending on
the number of manuscripts accepted for the special issue. The authors should indicate when they submit a manuscript if they are requesting a waiver of the publication fee.</span></font><font size="3"></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0px"><font size="3"><i><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;">Questions about fees can be directed to the Editor-in-Chief, Jeremy Wolfe,</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></i><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px"><i><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px;font-family:Times"><a href="mailto:jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu</span></a></span></i></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times;">Deadline: manuscripts should be submitted before</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:16pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times;"><b>September
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<p style="margin-bottom:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times;">You can find manuscript submission details at</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0px"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px"><a href="http://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6" style="margin:0px"><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times;">http://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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