I am in the phase of framing research questions but some researchers suggested me to see first.. if I can produce such experiments to get an answer. So, please suggest a good book and too that can be read online
Hello Astha,
Could you clarify, please, whether you looking for a research topic/project to explore, or you already know what you are going to study and need to decide on strategy and design the experiments. In either case, I would recommend reading scientific journals rather than books. Articles published in journals will help you learn about most current developments in the area of your interest. Pubmed is a great starting point and many articles are open access to anyone with internet. Should you need an article with full text not available freely on Pubmed, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed , you may contact several authors directly via email or from this platform. Best wishes with your research.
Being specific to an aspect of Neuroscience might help one to better suggest a suitable book for your interest and application. However, Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience, David E. Presti is a good one and ppears more universal but I'm not sure of it's availability online. Nevertheless, Fundamental Neuroscience, Larry R. Squire et al is also nice and available online.
I would recommend "Guide to Research Techniques in Neuroscience".
Link: https://www.elsevier.com/books/guide-to-research-techniques-in-neuroscience/carter/978-0-12-800511-8
Hello Elena V Romanova,
I am still not sure of the topic, I am looking forward to it. I will be grateful if you suggest some good journals in the field of cognitive Neuroscience which can help me to find research gap.
Thank you Mahmoud Ahmed Ebada and Abdulyekeen Adebisi . I will look into these links.
Dear Astha,
working with a literature database like Pubmed is way more efficient than reading particular journals. You may search the whole database with keywords of your interests and obtain a list of relevant research articles published in all journals that are indexed by this database. I encourage you to spend time learning how to do this effectively.
For starters, I would suggest searching for and reading thematic review articles because they often summarize and critically evaluate current state of the field and draw attention to topics needed further investigation.
However, starting your research exploration with the literature does not seem efficient to me. Understanding what laboratory infrastructure and resources/techniques/methods and animal models are realistically available to you is critically important and will determine the scope of scientific questions you will be able to address. As an example, you may want to study neuronal circuits in a live mammalian brain in relation to memory formation, but does your department/school has animal facility and funds to provide rats or mice? Is there fMRI equipment to do the measurements? Hope it helps you to figure out your path to experiential science.
Elena
I really appreciate your elaborate response to my question. The only machine available in my university is a Neurofeedback machine. You rightly suggested me to first understand the machine which is available in my department. I will start reading Thematic review articles, though I am naive in this field, so exploring every possibility. Elena V Romanova
Thank you
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