Devoted to exploring relationships between brain and behavior across the life span, Developmental Neuropsychology publishes scholarly papers on the appearance and development of behavioral functions, such as language, perception, and social, motivational and cognitive processes as they relate to brain functions and structures. Appropriate subjects include studies of changes in cognitive function—brain structure relationships across a time period, early cognitive behaviors in normal and brain-damaged children, plasticity and recovery of function after early brain damage, the development of complex cognitive and motor skills, and specific and nonspecific disturbances, such as learning disabilities, mental retardation, schizophrenia, stuttering, and developmental aphasia. In the gerontologic areas, relevant subjects include neuropsychological analyses of normal age-related changes in brain and behavioral functions, such as sensory, motor, cognitive, and adaptive abilities; studies of age-related diseases of the nervous system; and recovery of function in later life.

Empirical studies, research reviews, case reports, critical commentaries, and book reviews are featured in each issue. By publishing both basic and clinical studies of the developing and aging brain, the journal encourages additional scholarly work that advances understanding of the field of lifespan developmental neuropsychology.

《Developmental Neuropsychology》是一本由Psychology Press Ltd出版商出版的專業(yè)心理學(xué)期刊，該刊創(chuàng)刊于1985年，刊期Bimonthly，該刊已被國(guó)際權(quán)威數(shù)據(jù)庫SCIE、SSCI收錄。在中科院最新升級(jí)版分區(qū)表中，該刊分區(qū)信息為大類學(xué)科：心理學(xué)4區(qū)，小類學(xué)科：心理學(xué) 4區(qū)；心理學(xué)：發(fā)育 4區(qū)；心理學(xué)：實(shí)驗(yàn) 4區(qū)；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分區(qū)等級(jí)為Q3。該刊發(fā)文范圍涵蓋PSYCHOLOGY等領(lǐng)域，旨在及時(shí)、準(zhǔn)確、全面地報(bào)道國(guó)內(nèi)外PSYCHOLOGY工作者在該領(lǐng)域取得的最新研究成果、工作進(jìn)展及學(xué)術(shù)動(dòng)態(tài)、技術(shù)革新等，促進(jìn)學(xué)術(shù)交流，鼓勵(lì)學(xué)術(shù)創(chuàng)新。2023年影響因子為1.6，平均審稿速度 12周，或約稿 。