Introduction: 20th anniversary special issue

50th Anniversary special issue of vision research

The inaugural issue of Vision Research was published, with little fanfare, in June 1961 – 50 years ago. In the Preface, Thorn Shipley wrote: ‘‘The lack of a special journal in this field has been found to be increasingly awkward. Vision Research is therefore planned directly to fill this gap. However, it is not intended to encourage the isolation of the eye from the other senses, neither in its...

Editor's note: 25th Anniversary Special Issue

The Statistics and Computing journal gratefully acknowledges the contributions for this special issue, celebrating 25 years of publication. In the past 25 years, the journal has published innovative, distinguished research by leading scholars and professionals. Papers have been read by thousands of researchers world-wide, demonstrating the global importance of this field. The Statistics andComp...

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Magnetoencephalography: From SQUIDs to neuroscience Neuroimage 20th Anniversary Special Edition

Magnetoencephalography (MEG), with its direct view to the cortex through the magnetically transparent skull, has developed from its conception in physics laboratories to a powerful tool of basic and clinical neuroscience. MEG provides millisecond time resolution and allows real-time tracking of brain activation sequences during sensory processing, motor planning and action, cognition, language ...

Special issue introduction.