InfoGuides: Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Journal Articles

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Knowing the title of key journals in the field

Get to know significant journals in the field of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience.

When you search journal articles on the subject, you may go to psychology databases (such as PsycInfo) or general academic databases (such as Academic Search Premier or Google Scholar). These are both good good methods, but what do you do when you have many search results? What is your criteria to select from many? This is when knowing the titles of prominent journals help.

Knowing title of well known journals in the field of your study is very helpful.

If you're interested in cognitive and behavioral neurosciences, you may want to browse the content of a few well respected journals' table of content. That is an easy way to keep up with current research. If it becomes too much work, you can create an alert in the journal so that you can be notified if studies in a particular subject are published.

When it comes to searching, knowing the titles of prominent journals makes your search strategy very effective. When your search bring many results and you need to select among them. Selecting articles published in prominent journals is one way of making your search efficient. While we should not blindly believe that all articles published in prominent journals are in high quality, it is certainly helpful to rely on experts who reviewed the articles. Below you'll find a list of respected journals in the filed of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience that will help you select articles you find.

Examples of Key Journals

Annual Review of Neuroscience
The Annual Review of Neuroscience, in publication since 1978, covers the significant developments across the entire field of neuroscience, including molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurogenetics, development, plasticity and repair, systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, behavior, and neurobiology of disease, with occasional reviews in history of neuroscience and ethics.
Behavioral and Brain Functions
Focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying behavior and brain function, or dysfunction in a non-clinical manner. The journal is aimed at the scientific community interested in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, investigating the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of normal and abnormal behavior including the mind. The interdisciplinary nature of the field covers developments in human and animal behavioral science, neuroscience, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy.
Behavioral Neuroscience
Covers the broad field of the neural bases of behavior. Experimental subjects may include human and non-human animals.
Behavioural Brain Research
Its publications range from neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, neurochemical or neuropharmacological analysis of brain-behaviour relations, including the use of molecular genetic or behavioural genetic approaches, to studies that involve the use of brain imaging techniques, to neuroethological studies. Research in a wide variety of species including invertebrates, vertebrates, and humans.
Brain and Behavior
Publishes studies in all areas of clinical and basic research across a broad scope of topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychology, and psychiatry.
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Cognition
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Publication of the Psychonomic Society. The range of topics includes perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision-making; emotional processes, motivation, reward prediction, and affective states; and individual differences in relevant domains, including personality.
Current Research in Behavioral Sciences.
Publishes original papers and short communications - including viewpoints and perspectives - resulting from research carried out on all aspects of behavioral sciences.Topics include:
cognition and perception, emotion, motivation, personality and social sciences, evolution, development and genetics, methodological, computational and translational advances.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Publishes research on neural mechanisms underlying behavior (animal and human).
Key research areas covered are:
motivation and reward, learning and memory, emotion regulation and processing, behavioral endocrinology, individual and social behaviors, pathological conditions.
Genes, Brain, and Behavior.
Is the official journal of IBANGS - International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. The emphasis is on the analysis of the behavioral and neural phenotypes under consideration. Key topics include: neuroscience, neural genetics, behavioral genetics, behavioural genetics, phenotypes.
Nature Human Behaviour
Covers a broad range of topics, including:
perception, action, memory, learning, reward, judgment, decision-making, language, communication, emotion, personality, social cognition, social behaviour, neuropsychiatric/neurodevelopmental/neurological disorders, economic & political behaviour, belief systems, social networks, social norms, social structures, behaviour change, collective cognition and behaviour, culture, public policy.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Publishes review articles on:
neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging, in vivo monitoring of the brain's electrical and biochemical activities, molecular biology, genetics, neurocomputation
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Provides an overview of the latest developments in the cognitive sciences. lt brings together research in psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, computer science and neuroscience.