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Cognitive
Neuroscience
Free access to materials for students, educators, and researchers in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Videos and Demos
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Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
What are mirror neurons? -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
The neural basis for attention. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How is language processed in the brain?
Blog Roll
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If you want to hear me talk about what the US and Europe’s billion dollar brain projects are trying to achieve, I’m on the latest BBC All in the Mind discussing the science behind the quite considerable hype.
I discuss these latest brain initiatives alongside presenter Claudia Hammond... |
Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion — the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior.
A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of... |
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Sleep disturbances may be an early warning sign of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseasesThe latest issue of Nature contains an Outlook supplement about the health impacts of poor sleep, including a feature I wrote about the link between sleep disturbances and neurodegenerative diseases,... |
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science.
Deliberation’s Blindsight: How Cognitive Load Can Improve Judgments
Janina A. Hoffmann, Bettina von Helversen, and Jörg Rieskamp
When one is under a high cognitive load, why does task performance increase in some cases but... |
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