Resources

Here we provide links to some resources that are useful for teaching and research projects in cognitive science. For additional recources, visit the Essays page and the Demonstrations page. Please let us know about other useful resources that we can add.

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A Bibliography of Philosophy of Mind and Science of Consciousness

Created by: David Chalmers and David Bourget • Australian National University

This bibliography includes over 18,000 published or on-line papers with links and citation information and covering topics including consciousness and related topics such as perception, intentionality, the philosophy of AI, and the philosophy of cognitive science.

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MRC Psycholinguistic Database

Created by: School of Psychology • The University of Western Australia

This database is an essential tool for cognitive science research on language processing. It contains 150,837 words and provides information about 26 different linguistic properties, although not every property is available for every word. Properties include phonetic transcription, word frequency of occurrence in written texts and conversation, ratings for imageability, concreteness and meaningfulness, and various syntactic characteristics (e.g., regular/irregular plural). Words can be selected on the basis of these and other properties such as number of letters or syllables or syntactic class. This is a very useful resource for selecting stimulus materials.

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Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW)

Created by: Margaret Bradley and Peter Lang • NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion & Attention

ANEW provides normative emotional ratings for a number of words in the English language. Words are rated on emotional valence (pleasantness), arousal, and dominance. It has become standard in studies of cognition and emotion to characterize words in terms of valence and arousal. Note that the website provides instructions for requesting a set of the norms.

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Category Norms

Created by: Van Overschelde, J.P., Rawson, K.A. & Dunlosky, J. (2004). Category norms: An updated and expanded version of the Battig and Montague (1969) norms. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 289–335).

Category Norms are widely used in research on the organization of semantic memory and the effects of semantic similarity on memory and perception. Here we present a paper that updated and expanded the classic Battig and Montague (1969) category norms. The appendix presents words produced as category members for 70 categories and the proportion of participants who produced each word.

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WordNet

Created by: Cognitive Science Laboratory • Princeton University, Princeton NJ

WordNet presents English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs organized into groups of words that express the same concept in a given context. These word groups (‘synsets’) are linked via semantic and lexical relations. WordNet is an valuable tool for research in computational linguistics and natural language processing.

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