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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Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
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 -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
What are mirror neurons? -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
The neural basis for attention. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
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. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals.
Blog Roll
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By Tom Stafford, University of Sheffield
The headlines
The Australian: Male and female brains still unequal
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Gender disparities in cognition will not diminish
The Economist: A variation in the cognitive abilities of the two sexes may be more... |
Driving over the speed limit is the most common violation drivers make and one of the biggest contributors to traffic crashes. Speeding is estimated to have contributed to 30% of all fatal automobile crashes in the US, resulting in 10,219 deaths in 2012 alone.
Considering the very real dangers of... |
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It’s often said that we can’t love others unless we love ourselves. According to a new study, this may be true, but perhaps in a different way than we expect — while our reported self-esteem doesn’t predict changes in our implicit, or underlying, feelings about a significant other, our... |
The Huffington Post:
Sleep deprivation is a serious safety issue and has been implicated in everything from oil spills to plane crashes to nuclear power plant explosions.
It turns out that getting a healthy amount of sleep could also be a justice issue.
A novel study out of University of California... |
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