FreeEducational Tools for
Cognitive
Neuroscience
Free access to materials for students, educators, and researchers in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Videos and Demos
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What are mirror neurons? -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
How is language processed in the brain? -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
The neural basis for attention. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight
Blog Roll
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Summers have a special meaning, and perhaps purpose, for academics, whose lives are structured around the 9-month school year. For this reason, and because of the manifold opportunities for internships and summer schools available to graduate students, summers are a good time for resetting, taking... |
Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of research or topic in psychological science that has been the focus of an article in the APS journal... |
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After a betrayal of trust, what motivates an aggrieved partner to try and resolve the problem instead of walking away or seeking revenge? Many studies have indicated that how people respond to a partner’s betrayal is associated with how committed they feel to their relationship, raising the... |
As we get older, does our work become more satisfying? New research illuminates an intriguing conundrum: Job satisfaction tends to improve as we get older but also tends to decrease the longer we stay at a particular job.
“We demonstrated that age and tenure have opposite relationships with job... |
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