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[Stanford] "Faculty in the cognitive area investigate a wide range of topics including language, meaning and mental representation, perception, learning, memory, decision making and reasoning. We use methods including behavioral experimentation, computational and mathematical modeling, naturalistic observation and cross-cultural fieldwork, and neuro-imaging methods, and collaborate with neurophysiologists, neuopsychologists, developmental psychologists, linguists, and anthropologists."

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Cognition

Related guides

Psychology - General
Affective Science (Psychology)
Developmental Psychology
Education and Psychology
Neuroscience (Psychology)
Social Psychology

Around Stanford

Stanford's Department of Psychology
Stanford University School of Education
Cubberley Education Library's Homepage

Overviews

Encyclopedias and handbooks

APA educational psychology handbook / Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham, and Tim Urdan, editors-in-chief.
1st ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2012.
Cubberley » Reference (Non-circulating) » LB1051 .A618 2012 V.1
How to explain a brain : an educator's handbook of brain terms and cognitive processes / Robert Sylwester.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2005.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » RC334 .S98 2005
The Oxford guide to the mind / edited by Geoffrey Underwood ; consulting editor Richard L. Gregory.
Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » BF311 .O94 2001

"Based on the seminal Oxford Companion to the Mind, this Guide presents a thematically organized tour of the mind: what it is, what it does, and what happens when things go wrong."

International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences / editors-in-chief Neil J. Smelser, Paul B. Baltes.
1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001.
Green » Social Sciences Resource Center (Non-circulating) » H41 .I58 2001 V.1

"This Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. "

The cognitive neurosciences / Michael S. Gazzaniga, editor-in-chief ; section editors, Emilio Bizzi ... [et al.].
4th ed. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
Falconer » Stacks » QP360.5 .N4986 2009

"Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. "

"This revised and updated edition of the definitive resource for experimental psychology offers comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, as well as the explosion of research in neuroscience."

Databases

Psychology Databases

PsycINFO [electronic resource].
[Bethesda, Md.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.

PsycARTICLES [electronic resource].
Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association,

Provides full text access to articles from journals published by APA and allied organizations since 1988. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycCritiques [electronic resource].
Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association
PsycTESTS [electronic resource].
Washington, DC : American Psychological Association.

Related Databases

CogNet library [electronic resource].
Library ed., trial version. Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-

"This is a growing collection of searchable electronic texts in the field of cognitive and brain sciences."

Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.

Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-

Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.

Health and psychosocial instruments [electronic resource].
New York, N.Y. : Ovid Technologies [distributor, 19--]-

A database designed to help identify measurement tests used in health, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science; provides sources, abstract, and reviewer(s) when applicable.

Linguistics and language behavior abstracts : LLBA.
La Jolla, Calif. : Sociological Abstracts, Inc., 1985- 2004.
SAL3 » Stacks » P1 .L26 V.27 PT.2 1993

Websites

Mind, Brain and Computation: A Center for Research at Stanford
"The Center is dedicated to understanding how mental functions such as perceiving, understanding, thinking, feeling, and decision-making arise from neural processes in the brain."
Cognation Lab
"a sovereign state devoted to the study of Cognition."
Life-span Development Lab
"In the broadest sense, our research focuses on the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that people use to adapt to life circumstances as they age."
Parallel Distributed Processing Lab
"We study all aspects of human cognition through behavioral and neuroscience experiments and neural network modelling."
Decision Neuroscience Laboratory
"The Decision Neuroscience Laboratory investigates the neural basis of human decision making."
Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab
"Our research utilizes functional imaging (fMRI), computational techniques, and behavioral methods to investigate visual recognition and other high-level visual processes."
Stanford Vision Imaging Sciences and Technology
"We use neuroimaging methods (fMRI, DTI) and behavior to study the human visual system."

Journals

Key Journals

Cognition & emotion.
Hove [East Sussex]; Hillsdale, USA : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1987-
SAL3 » Stacks » BF309 .C5 V.19 2005:JAN.-JUN
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience.
Austin, TX : Psychonomic Society, c2001-
Green » Stacks » QP351 .P542 V.10 2010
Cognition.
Lausanne [Switzerland, etc.] Elsevier Sequoia [etc.] 1972-
SAL3 » Stacks » BF311 .C5 V.109 2008:OCT.-DEC
Cognitive psychology.
New York, Academic Press.
SAL3 » Stacks » BF311 .C6 V.57-58:NO.1 2008-2009
Cognitive therapy and research.
New York, Plenum Press.
SAL3 » Stacks » RC489 .C63 C6 V.32 2008:FEB.-JUN
Trends in cognitive sciences.
Kidlington, Oxford, UK : Elsevier Science, c1997-
SAL3 » Stacks » BF309 .T74 V.12 2008:JAN.-DEC
Journal of memory and language.
San Diego [i.e. New York, N.Y.] : Academic Press, c1985-
SAL3 » Stacks » BF455 .A1 J6 V.59 2008:JUL.-NOV
The Behavioral and brain sciences.
[New York] Cambridge University Press.
Green » Stacks » QP351 .B38 V.34 2011:FEB.-DEC
Journal of cognitive neuroscience.
Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the MIT Press with the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, c1989-
Green » Stacks » QP360 .J695 V.22 2010:NOV.-DEC
Neuropsychologia; an international journal.
Oxford [etc.] Pergamon Press.
SAL3 » Stacks » RC321 .N435 V.39:NO.1-4 2001
Wiley Interdisiciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science

More Journals

Cognitive science.
Norwood, N.J., Ablex Pub. Corp.
SAL3 » Stacks » BF311 .C633 V.32:NOS.7-8 2008
Current opinion in neurobiology.
London, UK : Current Biology Ltd., c1991-
Falconer » Serials » Shelved by title V.19 2009
The European journal of cognitive psychology.
Hove [England] ; Hillsdale, NJ, USA : Published for the European Society for Cognitive Psychology by L. Erlbaum Associates, c1989-
Green » Stacks » BF309 .E9 V.22:5-8 2010
The Journal of creative behavior.
[Buffalo, N.Y.] Creative Educational Foundation.
Green » Stacks » BF408 .J6 V.45 2011
Journal of experimental child psychology.
New York, Academic Press.
SAL3 » Stacks » 370.5 .J849 V.104 2009
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition.
Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 1982-
SAL3 » Stacks » BF371 .J64 V.31 2005:JUL.-NOV
Language and cognitive processes.
Hove, UK : L. Erlbaum Associates, c1985-
Green » Stacks » P37 .L362 V.26:NO.8-10 2011
Memory & cognition.
[Austin, Tex.] Psychonomic Society.
SAL3 » Stacks » BF371 .M45 V.36 2008:JUL.-DEC
Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society.
Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2000-
Green » Stacks » BF309 .J68 V.12 2011
Brain and cognition.
New York : Academic Press, [c1982-
Green » Stacks » QP376 .B69595 V.69 2009:FEB.-MAR
Cognitive neuropsychology.
London ; Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c1984-
Green » Stacks » BF311 .C51 V.27 2010:FEB.-DEC
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience [electronic resource].
Oxford, UK : Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press
Spatial vision.
Utrecht, The Netherlands : VNU Science Press, 1985-2009.
Green » Stacks » QP474 .S68 V.22 2009