Academic Resources for
Cognitive and Language Scientists
Key academic journals
Academic journals differ in their impact (how often their articles are cited) and visibility (how widely they are read and recognized in the field). Journal rankings capture this influence, usually based on citation measures. Common measures include Impact Factor (average citations per article) and Quartiles (Q1–Q4), which group journals from most to least influential within a field. Below are journals in the field of psycholinguistics that are considered prestigious and high-ranking.
Psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science
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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition ***
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences (reviews) ***
General Psychology
General Science
Societies and conferences
Academic societies bring together researchers in a field, often running journals, awarding prizes, and supporting students. Conferences, usually organized by these societies, let scholars present new research, network, and learn about current trends. Below are the prestigious conferences in the field of psycholinguistics.
Mailing Lists (listserv)
If you are interested in an academic career (professor and/or researcher), sign up to these free mailing lists which will automatically distribute email messages about news in the academic community, such as: sharing research updates; job postings; conference announcements; call for paper submissions; workshops and training; webinars and lecture series; and funding opportunities.
Cognitive Science
Linguistics and Psycholinguistics
Vision
Miscellaneous
Open-source (free) online lectures on neuroscience, cogsci, AI, tools and methods, etc.
Open Science
For undergraduate students
For graduate students
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How to be a successful PhD student (in computer science, but also applicable to other fields!)
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#AcademicChatter (hashtag on Twitter about discussions and jokes around academia)
General Resources for
Research Projects
Literature Review
Essential tools and guidelines
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Chula VPN (download and install this on your computer or tablet, to access the Chula online library when you're off-campus)
Explore new literature (AI tools)
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Elicit: Type in a research question, and it will produce a list of relevant papers, along with a short abstract summary + main findings. Supposedly works well for this format: “What is the effect of ___ on ___ ?”
Visualize connections between papers (AI tools)
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Lit maps: Type in the title of a paper, and it will use that as the “seed” that connects to related papers. Seems to work well, but the interface is a bit confusing.
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Research Rabbit: Type in the title of a paper and add it to your collection. It will use this as the starting point to suggest similar papers, and also show the references and subsequent citations (citing articles).
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Connected Papers: Type in the DOI or title of a paper, and it will produce a map of related papers – categorized as (1) prior works and (2) derivative works.
Reading and Writing Academic Articles
Essential tools and guidelines
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Zotero (recommended free software for citation management)
Guides for APA formatting and references (7th edition)
Tips for reading
Tips for writing
Improving your research reading and writing workflow
Creating Stimuli
Language databanks and corpora
Image databases
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Multipic (500 colored pictures of concrete objects in 32 different languages)
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Change blindness database (indoor scenes in which random objects appear and disappear)
Survey measures in Thai
Creating and Running Experiments
Online data collection platforms
Tools for creating experiments
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WebExp (free)
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Inquisit
EEG/ERP
Data Visualization and Analysis
Data visualization
Data analysis
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Phonetics on speed (tutorial on scripting in Praat, a program for analyzing acoustic speech signals)
Learning R
Tips for using R
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Top 50 ggplot2 data visualizations (cheat sheet)
Bayesian statistics