New E-Resources at Northwestern

Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent

The Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent provides numerous entries containing research findings on giftedness and creativity and their applications in education, training, science and the arts, athletics, and everyday life. Covers topics such as ability grouping, achievement and aptitude testing, emotional intelligence, gender differences, genius, intelligence testing, learning styles, minority gifted education, multiple intelligences, musical ability, Olympic athletes and thinking skills. – Publisher’s blurb.

Northwestern University Library now has access to 80 Sage reference handbooks.  Access is via the Library’s catalog NUcat or from the following list.

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

Includes numerous articles covering topics within the social and behavioral sciences. Describes the state of the art in all the fields encompassed within these sciences. – Publisher’s blurb.

Topics in Cognitive Science

Topics in Cognitive Science, the first new publication of the Cognitive Science Society in over 30 years. The prime directive of topiCS is to increase the range and scope of cognitive science. topiCS will do this by providing a forum for three broad categories of work: New and Emerging, Integrative and Reflective, and Great Debates. – Publisher’s blurb.

Learning and Memory : A Comprehensive Reference

Learning and Memory – A Comprehensive Reference presents an extensive, integrated summary of the present state of research in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory and covers an enormous range of intellectual territory. With topics ranging from the neurochemistry and neurobiology of learning at the cellular and synaptic levels, systems neurobiology, the study of remarkable capabilities in animals (such as homing), ethological and behavioristic analyses, mechanisms, psychology, and disorders of learning and memory in humans, the work broadly covers all topics in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory. – Publisher’s blurb.

Cognitive Science

“Cognitive Science is the first major text to offer a truly comprehensive review of cognitive science in its fullest sense. Ranging from artificial intelligence models of neural processes and cognitive psychology to recent discursive and cultural theories, Rom Harré offers an original yet accessible integration of the field. At its core, this textbook addresses the question ‘How can psychology become a science?’. The answer is based on a clear account of method and explanation in the natural sciences and how they can be adapted to psychological research.” – pubisher’s blurb.

Handbook of Neural Engineering

The Handbook of Neural Engineering provides theoretical foundations in computational neural science and engineering and current applications in wearable and implantable neural sensors/probes.

Human Nature

The journal Human Nature advances the interdisciplinary investigation of the biological, social, and environmental factors that underlie human behavior. It focuses primarily on the functional unity in which these factors are continuously and mutually interactive. These include the evolutionary, biological, and sociological processes as they interact with human social behavior; the biological and demographic consequences of human history; the cross-cultural, cross-species, and historical perspectives on human behavior; and the relevance of a biosocial perspective to scientific, social, and policy issues.

Science in Society

At Science in Society, we believe that science is fundamental, even “elemental” to our lives. Science affects us in many ways, from medical advances that touch our lives personally, to state and federal policy decisions concerning the environment or research regulations that impact our society at large.

Our goal is to make the community aware of the exciting research efforts at Northwestern University and across the world. We explore not only the science, but the legal, ethical, and even economic implications of research as well. We also offer a single access point to find science outreach events at Northwestern designed for the public, and we maintain a media library of past events, so you can enjoy lectures from the experts on your own computer, on your own time.

Neuroethics

Neuroethics will provide a forum for interdisciplinary studies in neuroethics and related issues in the sciences of the mind. In particular the journal will focus on the ethical issues posed by the new technologies developed via neuroscience.

This journal will be published open access for 2008 & 2009, upon which time Northwestern University Library will subscribe to all content.