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Free access to materials for students, educators, and researchers in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Videos and Demos
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Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
What are mirror neurons? -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
The neural basis for attention. -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
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. -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span
Blog Roll
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APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Carol Dweck has been named a recipient of the inaugural Yidan Prize, which recognizes her influential scientific work exploring mindsets and their impact on student achievement. Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, was selected as one of the first... |
Whether you’re a stay-at-home parent or a high-ranking politician, each day brings its own set of stressors. Despite these trying situations, we are expected to go on with our lives, making decisions and taking actions that affect us and others.
When you experience a stressful event, the... |
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The RAND Corporation will hold two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population: The Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists on July 9-10, 2018, and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 11-12, 2018.
Interested researchers can... |
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science:
Topological Relations Between Objects Are Categorically Coded
Andrew Lovett and Steven L. Franconeri
How do people compare images? The authors hypothesized that people use categorical relations between objects rather than metric... |
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