《IEEE自主精神发展学报》（TAMD）的范围包括：心理发展的计算建模，包括心理建筑学、理论、算法、属性和实验；与实现对人类和动物发展过程的计算理解有关的实验研究，特别是那些注重经验作用和积极探索环境的研究；自主精神发展的工程应用，如机械装置，使机器人和其他人工系统具有高度复杂的能力。
The scope of IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (TAMD) includes:Computational modeling of mental development, including mental architecture, theories, algorithms, properties, and experiments;Experimental investigations relevant to the goal of achieving a computational understanding of developmental processes in humans and animals, especially those focusing on the role of experience and on the active exploration of the environment;Engineering applications of autonomous mental development such as mechanisms enabling highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems.