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Foundational and cutting-edge content
MIT CogNet is the essential research tool for scholars in the brain and cognitive sciences. Authoritative and unrivaled, it has been an indispensable resource since its inception in 2000, with new resources added each year for those interested in cutting-edge primary research across the range of fields that study the nature of the human mind.
"MIT CogNet is an invaluable resource for all cognitive science research. It provides one-stop access to the best in both reference material and cutting-edge research, and is my starting point for every new project."
—David Danks, Professor of Philosophy & Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Features
Reference works
MIT CogNet offers the complete text of major cognitive science reference works published by the MIT Press, including several foundational works in the field. MIT CogNet also offers previous editions of reference works, many of which contain unique material.
Full-text content of 18 core reference works include:
- The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Edition edited by David Poeppel, George R. Mangun, and Michael S. Gazzaniga
- The Handbook of Rationality edited by Markus Knauff and Wolfgang Spohn
- Human Language: From Genes and Brains to Behavior edited by Peter Hagoort
- Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology edited by Massimiliano L. Cappuccio
- Open MIND: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century, Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Thomas Metzinger and Jennifer M. Windt
- The Handbook of Attention edited by Jonathan Fawcett, Evan Risko, and Alan Kingstone
- The New Handbook of Multisensory Processing edited by Barry E. Stein
- The Cognitive Neurosciences, 5th edition edited by Michael S. Gazzaniga, George R. Mangun
- Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse edited by Leo M. Chalupa and Robert W. Williams
- Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd edition edited by Charles A. Nelson and Monica Luciana
- Principles and Practice of Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision, 2nd edition edited by John R. Heckenlively and Geoffrey B. Arden
- The Handbook of Multisensory Processes edited by Gemma A. Calvert, Charles Spence, and Barry E. Stein
- The Visual Neurosciences, Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Leo M. Chalupa and John S. Werner
- The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders edited by Raymond D. Kent
- The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd edition edited by Michael A. Arbib
- Culturing Nerve Cells, 2nd Edition edited by Gary Banker and Kimberly Goslin
- The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences edited by Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil
- Artificial Life: An Overview edited by Christopher G. Langton
Books
The full text of more than 900 books published by the MIT Press are included in MIT CogNet. New content is added on an ongoing and regular basis.
Journals
MIT CogNet provides access to the full text of 9 MIT Press journals with 1,194 issues. These journals form the core of the MIT Press Journals science and technology publishing program. Included are:
- Artificial Life
- Computational Linguistics
- Evolutionary Computation
- Imaging Neuroscience
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Linguistic Inquiry
- Network Neuroscience
- Neural Computation
- Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science
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