《心理語言學研究》雜志涵蓋了研究交際過程的廣泛方法，包括:交際的社會和人類學基礎;言語和語言的發展;語義學(語言意義上的問題);和生物基礎。它還研究了語言與認知的心理病理學以及語言與認知的神經心理學。該雜志從從事心理語言學研究的幾個學科中精心挑選發表論文，為語言學家、心理學家、生物學家、社會學家和其他人之間的交流提供了一個單一的、公認的媒介。

The Journal of Psycholinguistic Research covers a broad range of approaches to the study of the communicative process, including: the social and anthropological bases of communication; development of speech and language; semantics (problems in linguistic meaning); and biological foundations. It also examines the psychopathology of language and cognition as well as the neuropsychology of language and cognition.The journal publishes carefully selected papers from the several disciplines engaged in psycholinguistic research, providing a single, recognized medium for communications among linguists, psychologists, biologists, sociologists, and others.