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Journals

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition.
Publishes original experimental and theoretical research on human cognition, with a special emphasis on learning, memory, language, and higher cognition.
Cognition
An international journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers on the study of the mind. It covers a wide variety of subjects concerning all the different aspects of cognition, ranging from biological and experimental studies to formal analysis.
Developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Publishes theoretical and research papers on cognitive brain development, from infancy through childhood and adolescence and into adulthood. It covers neurocognitive development and neurocognitive processing in both typical and atypical development
Journal of cognitive psychology
Publishes contributions from all areas of cognitive psychology, focusing on sound and theory-driven studies that advance our understanding of cognitive mechanisms and processes.

Psychology Databases

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource of peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
From the American Psychological Association (APA), full text, peer-reviewed scholarly articles in psychology from 1894 to the present.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access to peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical journals.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities Library This link opens in a new window
Access to peer reviewed journals covering Behavioral Science; Education; Business, Management & Economics; Media, Cultural & Communication Studies; Politics, International Relations; Sociology; Sport, Leisure & Tourism.

Multidisciplinary Databases

These comprehensive databases contain articles on psychology topics.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering the Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Useful Books

Handbook of Applied Cognition (2d ed) by Francis T. Durso (Editor); Raymond S. Nickerson (Associate Editor); Susan T. Dumais (Associate Editor); Stephan Lewandowsky (Associate Editor); Timothy J. Perfect (Associate Editor)
ISBN: 9780470015346
Publication Date: 2007-03-19
Brings together the latest research into this important field, and is fully updated with eleven new chapters covering materials that focus on the topics critical to understanding human mental functions in complex environments.
The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning by Robin A. Murphy (Editor); Robert C. Honey (Editor)
ISBN: 9781118650943
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Charts the evolution of associative analysis and the neuroscientific study of behavior as parallel approaches to understanding how the brain learns that both challenge and inform each other.
The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory by Audrey Duarte; Donna Rose Addis; Morgan Barense
ISBN: 9781118332597
Publication Date: 2015-06-02
Presents a comprehensive overview of the latest,cutting-edge neuroscience research being done relating to the study of human memory and cognition.
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) by Robert A. Wilson; Frank C. Keil
Call Number: Oversize BF311 .M556 1999
ISBN: 9780262731249
Publication Date: 1999-08-02
A landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field.
Handbook of Cognition by Koen Lamberts (Editor); Rob Goldstone (Editor)
Call Number: BF201 .H37 2005
ISBN: 9780761972778
Publication Date: 2004-11-18
Provides a definitive synthesis of the most up-to-date and advanced work in cognitive psychology in a single volume. The editors have gathered together a team of world-leading researchers in specialist areas of the field, both traditional and 'hot' new areas, to present a benchmark - in terms of theoretical insight and advances in methodology - of the discipline.
Categorizing Cognition by Graeme S. Halford; William H. Wilson; Glenda Andrews; Steven Phillips
Call Number: BF311 .H288 2014
ISBN: 9780262028073
Publication Date: 2014-12-19
A proposal for a categorization of cognition based on core properties of the constituent processes that integrates theory and empirical findings across domains.

Empirical Studies

Finding empirical studies in PsycINFO

To find articles that report on empirical research, some keywords you might want to use could be:

population, study, results, discussion, data, variables, limitations, implications, survey, respondents, or conclusion.

Such terms should be searched as keywords rather than subject terms because they reflect the kind of language used in an article describing empirical research, but they are not the topic or subject of the study.