Collection Development Statement
Last updated July 2020
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Last updated July 2020
This collection supports research and teaching that deals broadly with the brain. The Homewood academic departments and programs focus on research and research methodologies, not clinical practice.
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department of Cognitive Science
Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience
Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
All units are part of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. The undergraduate major in linguistics is provided by Cognitive Science. Animal models are used in PBS and the Mind/Brain Institute. In 2018-2019, the Neuroscience Program was the second most popular undergraduate major on the Homewood campus.
Subjects covered include: developmental psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, cognitive science, learning, memory, perception and senses, aging, brain science, animal behavior, and other psychological topics. Computational methodologies including brain imaging and eye tracking are used, with the needed visualization and statistical methods.
Clinical care is not the focus of these departments and programs; those efforts take place on the medical campus and are supported by the Welch Medical Library. Researchers in Cognitive Science occasionally treat a subjective, but the primary goal is research.
There is a strong preference for online resources.
Preferred formats
Material acquired by request or selectively
Material not collected
Scientific material is primarily in English. The linguistics faculty require linguistics research about many languages, as well as research in a number of languages, primarily European languages. The Center for Language & Speech Processing requires grammars for their programming needs.
Emphasis is on current and recent scholarship.
Joanne Helouvry
Librarian for Psychology and Education
410-516-2461
jhelouvry@jhu.edu