Try to find a very focused topic, then broaden it if necessary.
One interesting type of paper you can write can involve finding a scholarly debate and then offering your own assessment of it.
Use the "Term Finder" in PsycINFO to search for "memory", then look at the narrower terms under that broad term for more specific topics relating to memory
Consider using Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts if your topic involves language in some way; see the Thesaurus for "memory"
Look for heavily cited articles to get a sense of important/high impact research in your area of interest.
Bibliographic database of scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. PsycINFO covers journals, books, reviews, and dissertations.
Helps find current articles that cite earlier work. Covers STEM, social sciences, & arts and humanities. Has an emerging sources citation index. Useful for identifying review articles Note: Web of Science generally does not include conference proceedings in search results.
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Provides bibliographic coverage of journal articles in life sciences, especially focusing on biomedical areas. Part of PubMed's larger set of resources. See MEDLINE searching library guide off library homepage.