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 is language processed in the brain? -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
The neural basis for attention. -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
What are mirror neurons? -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
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 -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm.
Blog Roll
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Hope springs eternal. At least on New Year’s. On this first of January, the coming year is a blank slate. It’s a time when we can set our goals – to exercise more, to eat less, to perform our best – in the hopes of making 2019 a year that we can look back on with pride. There’s one problem,... |
Bottoms down: It’s Dry January.
For Heather Molnar that means holding the gin in her gin and
tonic for the rest of the month and substituting that end-of-day glass
of wine with kombucha.
“I like to put it in a wine glass or something fancy,” says Ms.
Molnar, a 46-year-old content... |
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Plenty of people learn about ideas in psychology, but Kellie
Gillespie, a writer based in London, did something unusual. She took
what she had learned in the class, and applied it in her own life.
“My life changed after doing Professor Plous’ course,” Kellie says.
The... |
The practice of paying children an allowance kicked off in earnest about 100 years ago. “The motivation was twofold,” says Steven Mintz, a historian of childhood at the University of Texas at Austin. “First, to provide kids with the money that they needed to participate in the emerging... |
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