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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How to perceive through manual exploration. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
What are mirror neurons? -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
The neural basis for attention. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Learn about the working memory model and its history
Blog Roll
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MyVirtualChild is an interactive web-based simulation that allows you to raise a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of your parenting decisions over time. This engaging website lets you apply the key concepts that you are learning in class. And just like in real life, certain... |
Have you ever felt a special “spark” with someone—an intense bond with a potential partner, friend, or colleague? If so, you probably thought you experienced “chemistry.” Literary references to interpersonal chemistry appeared as early as 1590, when English poet John Donne wrote about “love... |
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For the study, researchers followed more than 100 working, single mothers over a week and examined how their mindsets while balancing work and family tasks affected the likelihood of exhibiting healthy behaviors during their downtime.
They found that family demands on working mothers make... |
Vaccines to protect against COVID-19 are now widely available in the United States. But, wide availability doesn’t mean wide acceptance. Vaccine hesitancy and individuals who proudly claim they are anti-vax are not new phenomena. But why, with so much availability, do people resist vaccines so... |
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