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Free access to materials for students, educators, and researchers in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Videos and Demos
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In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
The neural basis for attention. -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
What are mirror neurons? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
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?
Blog Roll
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Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science:
Time Order as Psychological Bias
Laetitia Grabot and Virginie van Wassenhove
Researchers have found that there is a high level of interindividual variability in temporal order perception. Titchener’s law of prior entry states... |
You feel somebody is looking at you, but you don’t know why. The explanation lies in some intriguing neuroscience and the study of a strange form of brain injury.
Something makes you turn and see someone watching you. Perhaps on a busy train, or at night, or when you’re strolling through the park.... |
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Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)—a non-invasive technique for applying electric current to areas of the brain—may be growing in popularity, but new research suggests that it probably does not add any meaningful benefit to cognitive training. The study is published in Psychological... |
People may try to make someone else feel negative emotions if they think experiencing those emotions will be beneficial in the long run, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The findings expand on previous research by... |
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