A trio of topics composes our offering for this first issue of Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS) in 2020: (a) The 2017 Rumelhart Prize Issue Honoring Lila Gleitman, (b) the topic of Visual Narrative Research, and (c) five of the six award‐winning papers from the 2019 Cognitive Science Conference (the sixth will appear in our next issue).

Our lead topic honors Lilia Gleitman's career and contributions, which resulted in her 2017 award of the Rumelhart Prize. This topic was organized and shepherded by Barbara Landau. Landau begins her introduction with an overview of Gleitman's research history and an introduction to several of her major collaborators. She then divides the contributions of this topic into three sets of issues and shows how the work of each contributor to various issues has been influenced and/or inspired by Gleitman. (We pause to note here that, thanks to our publisher, Wiley‐Blackwell, all topic Introductions are free for all to download.)

Our second topic, Visual Narrative Research: An Emerging Field in Cognitive Science, was proposed and shepherded through the writing, editing, and publication process by Topic Editors Neil Cohn and Joseph Magliano. This is a topic that many of us watched as it was developing through a series of Symposia orchestrated and organized by the Topic Editors across several years of Cognitive Science Conferences. Clearly, this is a topic which evolved from the Multidisciplinary world (see Gray, 2019) of Cognitive Science.

The last topic in this issue is our annual, Best Papers from the Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference. As is our practice, this issue follows the summer conference by 6 months. Also, as is our practice, we invited authors of the award‐winning papers to expand their conference paper by about one page and resubmit it for this issue of topiCS. As always, our prize winners are informed that this will be a real journal paper and that publishing the work in topiCS will preclude publication in other outlets; however, for the first time since we began this tradition in 2009, all of our prize‐winning authors have elected to publish in topiCS.

The seventh paper was unable to make our publishing deadline and we expect it to appear in our April 2020 issue. However, each of the other papers appears in this issue of Topics in Cognitive Science.

Finally, we remind our readers that, as always, our publisher, Wiley‐Blackwell, allows us to offer the Topic Editors' introduction to their topics to all of our readers as a free download.

To our readers, keep searching and reading topiCS for our high‐quality, curated collections of papers on timely topics of interest to the broad cognitive science community.

我们为2020 年第一期认知科学主题( topiCS )提供的主题由三个主题组成：(a) 2017 年鲁梅尔哈特奖纪念莉拉·格莱特曼 (Lila Gleitman) ，(b)视觉叙事研究主题，(c)五个主题2019年认知科学大会的六篇获奖论文（第六篇将出现在我们的下一期中）。

我们的主要主题是为了表彰 Lilia Gleitman 的职业生涯和贡献，她因此荣获 2017 年鲁梅尔哈特奖。该主题由芭芭拉·兰道 (Barbara Landau) 组织和主持。兰道首先概述了格莱特曼的研究历史，并介绍了她的几位主要合作者。然后，她将该主题的贡献分为三组问题，并展示了各个问题的每个贡献者的工作如何受到 Gleitman 的影响和/或启发。（我们在此停下来指出，感谢我们的出版商 Wiley‐Blackwell，所有主题介绍均可免费下载。）

我们的第二个主题“视觉叙事研究：认知科学的新兴领域”是由主题编辑 Neil Cohn 和 Joseph Magliano 提出并主持的写作、编辑和出版过程。这是我们许多人都关注的一个主题，因为它是通过主题编辑在几年的认知科学会议上精心策划和组织的一系列研讨会而发展起来的。显然，这是一个从认知科学的多学科世界（参见 Gray，2019）演变而来的主题。

本期的最后一个主题是我们的年度认知科学学会年会最佳论文。按照我们的惯例，这一期是在夏季会议召开后 6 个月发布的。此外，按照我们的惯例，我们邀请获奖论文的作者将他们的会议论文扩展大约一页，然后重新提交到本期的topicCS中。与往常一样，我们的获奖者被告知这将是一篇真正的期刊论文，在topicCS中发表该作品将排除在其他媒体上发表的可能性；然而，自 2009 年开始这一传统以来，我们所有获奖作者都选择在topicCS上发表文章，这是第一次。

第七篇论文未能在我们的截止日期前发表，我们预计它会出现在 2020 年 4 月号中。然而，其他每篇论文都出现在本期《认知科学主题》中。

最后，我们提醒读者，一如既往，我们的出版商 Wiley-Blackwell 允许我们向所有读者免费下载主题编辑对其主题的介绍。

对于我们的读者来说，请继续搜索和阅读我们高质量、精心策划的论文集，这些论文集涉及广泛的认知科学界感兴趣的及时主题。