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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After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
The neural basis for attention. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
What are mirror neurons? -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
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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A great deal of recent research on evolution focuses on altruism—the
tendency of creatures to help others, often at great cost to themselves.
This is especially true of human beings, who help one another for a
variety of good evolutionary reasons. For instance, people help kin,
which is a way... |
As
I type this, my iPhone is tucked away inside my desk drawer under lock
and key. It’s been there all day, completely out of sight. I’m slightly
anxious about the notifications I might be missing, but only slightly;
it’s a manageable level that’s not distracting.
Yes,
it’s a little extreme... |
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You have recently joined a book club.
Before
each meeting, one member of the literary collective sends an email to
the club secretary offering a few thoughts on the assigned text. This
month, it’s your turn to compose the brief review.
A
new study suggests that the words you use may... |
Why is my awareness here, while yours is over there? Why is the
universe split in two for each of us, into a subject and an infinity of
objects? How is each of us our own center of experience, receiving
information about the rest of the world out there? Why are some things conscious and others... |
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