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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Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
The neural basis for attention. -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
What are mirror neurons? -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo
Blog Roll
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Close the doors, cover the windows, seal any cracks — the room is now pitch black. You can’t see anything…or can you?
New research from psychological scientists at the University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, and Seoul National University in South Korea suggests that body movements,... |
The Grawemeyer Foundation has named APS Fellow Antonio Damasio, whose research suggested emotions have a critical effect on reasoning and decision-making, the recipient of the prestigious 2014 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
Damasio, David Dornsife Professor and director of the Brain and... |
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Pacific Standard:
Numerous causes contribute to the nation’s obesity epidemic, including our increasingly sedentary lifestyles and the easy availability of high-calorie foods. Newly published research points to another, less-obvious factor that appears to be exacerbating the problem: The negative... |
Big Think:
It has been said that there are no atheists in foxholes. The fear of death will make even the most hardened skeptic a believer. According to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, the experience of awe — in the form of mountains, canyons and outer space — makes one... |
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