Cognitive Science | MacOdrum Library

Key Resources

Provides access full-text books and journals in the brain and cognitive sciences

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)

Provides citation and abstracts to the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences

Philosopher's Index

Provides citations with abstracts to articles, books and other published literature on philosophy and related topics

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Provides access to more than 3 million full-text documents from the most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics

PsycINFO

Comprehensive database published by the APA (American Psychological Association) covering the research literature in psychology and related areas

Getting started - defining and understanding your topic

Getting to know your topic and finding relevant research can be challenging particularly in a discipline that is interdisciplinary like cognitive sciences.

Here are a few types of resources that can get you started amd give you the right background information and keywords for you to locate and understand research articles better.

Handbooks (general)
The Oxford handbook of cognitive science
Cambridge handbook of cognitive science

Handbooks (specialized) - sample
The Oxford Handbook of cognitive linguistics
Routledge handbook of embodied cognition
The philosophy of cognitive science
Cognitive Science, religion and theology: from human minds to divine minds
Explaining the computational mind
Keeping the world in mind: mental representations and the sciences of the mind
The Oxford handbook of cognitive engineering
The Oxford handbook of numerical cognition
Handbook of comparative cognition
Philosophy and cognitive science I
Philosophy and cognitive science II
The Sage handbook of social cognition
The Oxford handbook of situated cognition
Handbook of functional neuroimaging of cognition
Handbook of applied cognition

E-portal (books, core journals, encyclopedia/dictionaries)
MIT Press Direct

Encyclopedias
MIT encyclopedia of cognitive sciences (electronic version)
Encyclopedia of cognitive science

Dictionaries
Dicitionary of cognitive science

Finding journal articles

To do a comprehensive search on your topic you may wish to use a combinations of some of the following databases.
Multidisciplinary databases will give you an overview and map out the disciplinary areas that are most frequently associated to your topic.

MIT Press Direct (limited collection of core journal resources)

Related databases
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Philosophers Index
PsycINFO

Multidisciplinary
Scholars Portal
Scopus *
SpringerLink Journals
Web of Science *
Google Scholar**

* comprehensive

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Research

The following is a sample of some of the resources that could provide some background information on doing research in the cognitive sciences:
Grounding social science in cognitive sciences
From ethical review to responsible research and innovation
The Palgrave handbook of critical thinking in higher education

Methodology (sample)
Computational models of referring: a study of cognitive science
New directions in multinomial modeling
Analyzing discourse: text analysis for social research
Methodological thinking: basic principles in social research design
Designing qualitative research
The research interview
Video as method
Concise introduction to mixed methods approach
Visual methods in social research
Doing research in the real world
Doing survey research
Handbook of digital technology research

Research impact
Altmetrics (tracking use of your publications)

Tests and Measures
Mental measurement yearbook and tests in print

Writing and Citing