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 the brain make sense of the external world -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
What are mirror neurons? -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
The neural basis for attention. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm.
Blog Roll
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Can birds be as intelligent as chimpanzees or dolphins? Can they communicate and use language like a child would? Can they even outsmart undergraduate students? A line of research started more than 40 years ago continues to reveal new findings about parrots’ intelligence and even their... |
Most students in psychology and psychiatry programs today are too young to have any firsthand memory of the moral panic engendered by the recovered memory movement in the 1980s and early 1990s. This was a time when therapists proudly advertised their ability to help clients unearth supposedly... |
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We like to think that all humans are born with the same core emotions: anger, fear, joy, sadness and disgust. But what if that’s not true? This week, psychologist Batja Mesquita offers a different model of emotions — one that can help us to better understand our own feelings and those of the people... |
Make-believe doesn’t usually have a place in laboratory settings, but research just published in Psychological Science suggests that girls may persist longer in science activities when they pretend to be successful female scientists. This kind of play-based intervention could help close the gender... |
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