In attempting to study Saxe's reference sources one of the articles referenced in her MIT biographical snippet was freely available on the net, but the rest required subscriptions to online databases.
I discovered that locating Saxe's articles was quite a challenge. Stapleton Library at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was able to provide full-text digitization's for only 3 of the 12 listed articles through Ebsco. Three were available in print in the serials department. I used IUP's resources rather than Clarion's because it was far easier to search for the articles on campus rather than from a remote location where I had to constantly re-sign in for access to the various databases.
The articles "It's the Thought that Counts...," "Secret Agents...," and "Understanding Other Minds..." all utilize a great number of resources. "Understanding Other Minds..." had a 7.5 page Literature Cited list!
Overall, the articles utilized psychology oriented publications and articles and books pertaining to childhood development. Saxe's research focus on infants and their ability to recognize visual stimulants--(really stretching my scientific jargon that hasn't been used in 3 years) requires a wide variety of material discussing neurology and psychology and it is evident through the bibliographies that this has been achieved-- one resource is titled
Neuropsychology.
It seems that most of the references are trying to prove nearly the same things as Saxe, but have only completed a portion of the processes Saxe has achieved. I searched for a few of the articles Saxe referenced and found that the Psychology articles were much easier to locate in full-text format than any of the Neurology focused. The differences between institutions effects the available resources. Perhaps if IUP offered a major in Neurology more articles would be readily available...I could only imagine the presence of future Neurosurgeons in Indiana.
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Consider taking a look at her lab web site at MIT. Also, MIT started a really neat piece of software known as DSpace. You may not find a lot in the MIT DSpace site, but you might like what small amount you do find.
ReplyDeleteo goodness. I briefly looked at the MIT site, but my computer struggled with some of the links- today I see that the publications are there -- so much for my earlier struggle...
ReplyDeleteI also tried to use EBSCO and I actually searched every database it has available. So far, I haven't found it too useful.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably way to late, but I had some success with GoogleScholar for articles by my scientist. I later discovered that two institutes (he is principle scientist) will email pdf files on request.
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