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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This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
The neural basis for attention. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
What are mirror neurons? -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention.
Blog Roll
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The Worst-Motive Fallacy: A Negativity Bias in Motive AttributionJoel Walmsley and Cathal O’MadagainThe worst-motive fallacy consists of a negativity bias when attributing motives to others’ actions. Participants read vignettes about different choices available to a character and selected which... |
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) is pleased to announce its lifetime achievement award recipients for 2021. As the premier international organization dedicated to advancing scientific psychology across disciplinary and geographic boarders, APS represents more than 30,000 leading... |
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At the very beginning of her new book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett writes that each chapter will present “a few compelling scientific nuggets about your brain and considers what they might reveal about human nature.” Though it’s an accurate... |
Money can’t buy happiness.
“This sentiment is lovely, popular, and almost certainly wrong,” says Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert in a paper he coauthored.
Money provides an “opportunity for happiness,” the authors say, since moneyed people can live longer and... |
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