• Reference Works
  
• Finding Books
• Finding Articles
• Web Sites

Getting Started: Selected Reference Works

Begin your research with reference works to find background information, definitions, locate statistics and facts, and build a bibliography.

• Dictionary of Cognitive Science: neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and philosophy
  Ref BF 311 .V56713 2004
  Short articles and definitions of many key terms and concepts in cognitive science.  This is particularly helpful if you're working in an unfamiliar area.
• Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
  Ref BF 311 .E53 2003
  A 4 volume set with long, in-depth articles on topics in cognitive science.  A great place to begin researching a topic.  Each article includes an extensive bibliography.
  
• The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
  Ref BF311 .M556 1999
  This encyclopedia contains 471 concise articles, each written by a leading researcher on the topic and followed by a list of references and suggested readings. MITECS is divided into six sections: philosophy; psychology; neurosciences; computational intelligence; linguistics and language; and culture, cognition, and evolution.  More in-depth than the Dictionary of Cognitive Science, but more concise than the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science listed above.
  
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP)
  Ref B51 .R68 1998; Internet: http://www.rep.routledge.com/
  This encyclopedia contains over 2000 articles written by more than 1,300 international experts in all areas of philosophy. The online version is continually updated.
  
• A Companion to Epistemology
  Ref BD161 .C637 1992
  Over 250 extensively cross-referenced entries focus on epistemology and analytic philosophy. Each article contains a bibliography and suggestions for further reading.
• Encyclopedia Of Psychology
  Ref BF31 .E52 2000
  This eight-volume encyclopedia is international in scope and provides comprehensive coverage of theory, research, and practice in the field of psychology. Articles (including 400 biographies) are arranged alphabetically and bibliographies accompany each article.
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• Encyclopedia of Human Intelligence
  Ref BF431 .E59 1994
  This two-volume encyclopedia contains over 250 cross-referenced articles on all aspects of human intelligence. A bibliography appears at the end of each entry and there are some illustrations and tables.
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
  Ref BF76.7 .P83 2001
  Using the proper citation format in your bibliography is important, so consult the APA's official style guide.

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Finding Books

Bridge
Bridge is the joint catalog for Carleton and St. Olaf libraries, an access point for all of the books, periodicals, government documents, and electronic resources available at the two colleges. When searching in Bridge, it is important to understand that you can look for the titles of journals on Bridge, but not for the articles within those journals.

Library of Congress Subject Headings are the words and phrases you can use to do a subject search in Bridge (as opposed to a word search, where you may use any words you like). The term language acquisition is not a subject heading. By using the proper subject heading (Psycholinguistics) you avoid getting results like Advances in Genetic Programming.

When starting out, it is often helpful to do a word search on your topic, and then to examine the subject headings of the results you find relevant. Bridge displays these subject headings as links and clicking on one of them will automatically conduct a subject search for that particular topic. If you have trouble finding relevant sources using a word search, try consulting the printed volumes of Library of Congress Subject Headings in the reference collection.

Call Numbers
Browsing the stacks can help you evaluate the library's collection in a given field of study. The following call number ranges contain works relevant to cognitive studies:

• B1-5802 - Philosophy (general works)
• BD161 - Theory of knowledge
• BD418 - Philosophy of mind
• BF1-37 - Psychology (general works)
• BF38-64 - Philosophy of psychology and relation to other topics
• BF176-198.7 - Psychological tests and experimental psychology
• BF231-299 - Sensation and aesthesiology
• BF309-499 - Consciousness and cognition (including learning, attention, comprehension, memory, imagination, genius, intelligence, thought and thinking, psycholinguistics, and mental fatigue)
• BF501-505 - Motivation
• BF511-593 - Affection, feeling, and emotion
• BF608-635 - Will, volition, choice, and control
• BF660-685 - Comparative psychology, animal and human psychology
• BF698-698.9 - Personality
• BF712-724.85 - Developmental psychology
• QL737,785 - Cognition in animals
• QP351-495 - Neurophysiology and neuropsychology
• RC321-571 - Neurosciences, biological psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry

WorldCat
Search WorldCat, an online catalog for libraries throughout the world, to find books that Carleton and St. Olaf don't have. If you find a book through WorldCat that is not at Carleton or St. Olaf libraries, you will need to order the book through InterLibrary Loan.

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Finding Articles

Use databases and indexes to locate articles and book chapters on your topic. Gould Library does not subscribe to all of the titles listed in these resources. Search Bridge to see if Carleton or St. Olaf subscribes to the journal. If we don't have what you're looking for, take advantage of our InterLibrary Loan Services

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Periodical Databases & Indexes

PsycINFO
Internet (1840 - current):
PsycINFO is the online version of Psychological Abstracts. It covers more than 1,700 leading psychological, psychiatric, and related publications. For nearly 300 of these publications, full text articles date from 1992 forward, full image articles from 1987 forward, and articles with text and graphics from 1995 forward. Abstracts date from 1887 to the present.

Web of Science
Internet (1900 - current):
Science Citation Index Expanded indexes more than 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science journals and Social Sciences Citation Index indexes more than 1,725 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals.

Journals

Annual Review of Psychology
Main General (1950 - current): BF30 .A56;
Internet (1996-2004)
Internet (1993-2004)
Once each year this periodical reviews recent scholarly research on a few chosen topics. Each article includes an extensive bibliography.

Applied Cognitive Psychology
Main Periodicals (1996-2003)
This journal publishes empirical research from a wide range of theoretical perspectives on memory, learning, thinking, problem solving, language, and consciousness.

Cognition
Main Periodicals (1974-2003); Internet (1997-2003):
Cognition features research papers, experimental reports, reviews, and discussions in the field of cognition.

Cognitive Psychology
Main Periodicals (1970-2003)
Cognitive Psychology publishes original empirical, theoretical, and tutorial papers; methodological articles; and critical reviews in the study of memory, language processing, perception, problem solving, and thinking.

Cognitive Science
Main Periodicals (1977-2003); Internet (1997-2003):
Cognitive Science features articles on topics such as knowledge representation, inference, memory processes, learning, problem solving, planning, perception, natural language, motor control, and intentional systems.

Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory And Cognition
Main Periodicals (1975-2003)
This bimonthly journal publishes original experimental studies concerning cognition, learning, memory, imagery, concept formation, problem solving, decision making, thinking, reading, and language processing. It is available under the title Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning And Memory for the years 1975-1981.

Memory & Cognition
Main Periodicals (1973-2003)
Memory & Cognition features articles on topics such as memory and learning, conceptual processes, psycholinguistics, problem solving, thinking, decision making, and skilled performance.

Social Cognition
Main Periodicals (1993-2003);
Internet (1997-2003)
Research, conceptual analyses, and critical reviews that focus on cognition as it relates to personality, social development, and social behavior.

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Web Sites

American Psychological Association
The APA is the largest association of psychologists in the world. Their site features articles, newsletters, and resources for psychology students and professional psychologists.

American Psychological Society
The APS site features funding opportunities, a newsletter, and links to other sites and organizations related to psychological science.

AmoebaWeb: Cognitive Psychology
This page includes links to a wide variety of online articles and resources in the field of cognitive studies.

APA. How to Cite Information From the Internet and the World Wide Web
On-line source that gives examples of ways to cite electronic resources.

APA Style Essentials
This page from Vangard University details many elements of the APA style -- including document guidelines, abstracts, citation and reference styles, and tables and figures. Examples of each topic are provided.

Cognitive Science Society
The publisher of Cognitive Science provides a newsletter and information regarding conferences, graduate study, and funding and employment opportunities.

PsychCrawler
PsychCrawler is a search engine for psychology related Web sites that have been reviewed and approved by the American Psychological Association.

Psych Web
Psych Web contains links to psychology department Web sites, electronic journals, and “tip sheets” for psychology majors.

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