The longer articles consist of signed essays of up to 5000 words in length, surveying large fields of study, e.g. phonetics. MIT Press, c1999. One of the best recent subject encyclopedias we've seen. It consists of about 500 authoritative, signed articles covering the entire expanse of cognitive studies. The articles are arranged in alphabetical order.
Access is aided by very thorough name and subject indexes.
Extensive cross-references help the user find her way. Six prefatory essays provide overviews of Philosophy, Psychology, Neurosciences, Computational Intelligence, Linguistics and Language , and Culture, Cognition and Evolution, with many reference to the articles themselves. Highly recommended for the overviews, and the thoroughness of the articles. Libraries Unlimited, 1991. Thus it is no easy task to compile a guide that surveys the sources for a conglomerate of overlapping fields.