Journal of Research Practice
Operations suspended in 2019. Kept online for archival purposes.
YouTube - A Pigeon Solves the Classic Box-and-Banana Problem
Real laboratory footage showing a pigeon solving Wolfgang Kohler's famous box-and-banana problem, which he studied with chimpanzees in the early 1900s. Dr. Robert Epstein and his colleagues used operant conditioning techniques to get pigeons to solve this problem "spontaneously" in the 1980s. A report of their research was published in the prestigious British journal Nature in 1984 ("Insight" in the pigeon, Nature, 1984, v. 308, pp. 61-62), accessible at http://DrEpstein.com/downloads/Epstein-Insight_in_the_Pigeon-Nature-1984.pdf. Depending on their previous experience, pigeons could solve this problem in a human-like fashion in as little as a minute. This pigeon has learned to push boxes and to climb, and it has been rewarded with grain for pecking at a small toy banana. In this situation, the banana is out of reach and the box is not beneath it. At first the pigeon looks confused, then it begins pushing the box - sighting the toy banana as it pushes - and then stops pushing when the box is beneath the banana, then climbs and pecks. This and related studies were summarized in Dr. Epstein's 1996 book, Cognition, Creativity, & Behavior. For information about Dr. Epstein's research on creativity--and his scientifically-validated techniques for boosting creativity in HUMANS, visit http://CreativityInternational.com.
Gallery - Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests - Image 1 - New Scientist
A fuel cell that runs on insects powers itself and a clock. The next wave of home robotics may eat pests to keep running. Now where do I hide the kids so the vacuum cleaner won't eat them?
Smart People Really Do Think Faster : NPR
The smarter the person, the faster information zips around the brain, a UCLA study finds. And this ability to think quickly apparently is inherited.
SSRN – Emergence of Cognition
Dedicated to the study of the emergence of cognition, especially human higher-order cognition, phylogenetically and ontogenetically, in evolution and development.
SSRN – Cognitive Social Science
Mental events, however distributed, provide the defining problems of the social sciences. What are our basic cognitive operations? How do we use them in judgment, decision, action, reason, choice, persuasion, expression? Do voters know what they need to know? How do people choose? What are the best incentives? When is judgment reliable? Can negotiation work? How do cognitive conceptual resources depend on social and cultural location? How do certain products of cognitive and conceptual systems come to be entrenched as publicly-shared knowledge and method? Economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and all other social scientists refer as a matter of course to mental events and typically must assume some general outline of what those mental events can be and how they can arise. They explore networks of mental events in social systems and in social cognition. Given this convergence of cognitive science and the social sciences at their intellectual cores, and the increasing body of research activity at their intersection, the Cognitive Science Network provides an eJournal to track and distribute new and classic research in the emerging field of cognitive social science.
SSRN – Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience is dedicated to research on the neurobiological substrate of higher-order human cognition. All methodologies are welcome - philosophical to physiological, modeling to mapping, statistical to individual case study - in forging a research initiative that transcends the limitations of any one discipline or paradigm.
SSRN – Cognitive Linguistics: Cognition, Language, Gesture
Cognitive linguistics goes beyond the visible structure of language and investigates the considerably more complex backstage operations of cognition that create grammar, conceptualization, discourse, and thought itself. The theoretical insights of cognitive linguistics are based on extensive empirical observation in multiple contexts, and on experimental work in psychology and neuroscience. Results of cognitive linguistics, especially from metaphor theory and conceptual integration theory, have been applied to wide ranges of nonlinguistic phenomena.
SSRN – Cognition in Mathematics, Science, & Technology
Mathematical insight, scientific discovery, and technological innovation are hallmarks of higher-order human cognition. Cognition in Mathematics, Science, and Technology is dedicated to the cognitive science of mathematics, science, and technology - in phylogenetic descent, ontogenetic transformation, and historical action.
SSRN – Cognition & Culture: Culture, Communication, Design, Ethics, Morality, Religion, Rhetoric, & Semiotics
Cognition & Culture focuses on the cognitive study of cultures as creations of human minds in environments. Its scope includes research on cultural manifestations, their differences and incommensurabilities, and their expressive and semantic regularities and universals. This eJournal announces working papers, meetings, and events associated with interdisciplinary research projects and aims at encouraging collaboration across disciplines. It presents research in cognitive science having to do with such fields as design, ethics, history, jurisprudence, morality, philosophy, politics, religion, sociality, science, and technology.
Constitute
The World's Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare
List of Academic Design Journals
I’m often asked to suggest academic Design Journals, so I’ve started a list below. I will be adding to this list and improving overtime. Its in no particular order so please feel free to make some …
Scimago Journal & Country Rank
Not sure how legitimate this is.
Reviewing a Manuscript for Publication
by Allen S. Lee. Invited note in J Op Mgmt 13.1:87-92, 1995.
Reviewing a Manuscript for Publication
The Economics of Open Access Publishing « The RePEc Blog
EAP has just published a special issue dedicated to the Economics of Open Access Publishing. Articles are written by economists discussing their experience with open access as well as by others involved in open access publishing.
CFD Online
A portal for Computational Fluid Dynamics, including resources, job listings, forums, newsletters, etc.
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
A brilliant visual analogy between the periodic table of the elements and methods of visualization.
https://ruor.uottawa.ca/home
Open access research repository at University of Ottawa.
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Swedish Environmental Research Institute
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is an independent research body that has been involved since 1966 in the development of solutions to environmental problems on behalf of the business sector and the community. IVL deals with environmental issues from a holistic perspective with the aim of contributing to sustainable growth.
SymbioCity - Sustainability by Sweden
A large scale sustainability enterprise in Sweden. "SymbioCity promotes holistic and sustainable urban development - finding potential synergies in urban functions and unlocking their efficiency and profitability."
Map of Science
ETO's Map of Science collects and organizes the world’s research literature, revealing key trends, hotspots, and concepts in global science and technology.
The Map of Science includes hundreds of millions of scholarly publications from around the world, algorithmically organized into over 85,000 research clusters. Filter clusters by subject, growth, country, organization, or other characteristics to pinpoint key trends and topics. The Map runs on bibliometric data from Clarivate Web of Science and other sources.
The Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge Acquisition System
Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework.
Community Research Canada
Community-Based Research Canada is a national membership-based non-profit advancing community-based research excellence in Canada and beyond. Our mission is to bridge capacities, facilitate connections, mobilize knowledge and champion community-research contributing to equitable, just, and sustainable communities.
Design and Culture
Publishes research on design that nurtures new or overlooked lines of inquiry and thinks critically about social justice, exclusion, and privilege.