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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 are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
The neural basis for attention. -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
What are mirror neurons? -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals.
Blog Roll
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Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time PressureIan D. Roberts, Yi Yang Teoh, and Cendri A. HutchersonDifferent framing of the same choice problem can lead to different choices, an effect that time pressure can increase. Roberts and colleagues tracked... |
Summary: Dilated pupils, sweating, and a rapid heartbeat are some of the physiological responses that people experience when faced with a threatening situation. New research used the immersive experience of a haunted house to reveal that these responses differ depending on the social context and... |
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The things we should have said or done in a given situation—or, more often, the things other people should have said or done—often seem obvious in hindsight, but when faced with a tough choice, we rarely have access to all of the same information that may come to light after the fact.... |
An airplane passenger is accused of attacking a flight attendant and breaking bones in her face. Three New York City tourists assaulted a restaurant host who asked them for proof of vaccination against the coronavirus, prosecutors say. Eleven people were charged with... |
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