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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How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
How is language processed in the brain? -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
What are mirror neurons? -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
The neural basis for attention. -
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 -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
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 -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world
Blog Roll
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If you’re in London on Sunday 16th March, there’s an amazing stage show at King’s Place about psychosis called Parting.
The performance has been created by talented twin sister composers Effy and Litha Efthymiou and, along with folks with first-person experience of psychosis, I... |
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Drug dependence has two faces — as a chronic disease and a temporary failure to cope. Interesting piece from Science News.
Friend of Mind Hacks Christian Jarrett bids a fond farewell to the BPS Research Digest at 11 years at the helm.
Matter... |
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Biomedical charity The Wellcome Trust have launched a new online science magazine called Mosaic which is rammed full of mind and brain stories for its launch.
As part of their role is medical education, the idea is that they get writers to produce in-depth articles about science and then give them... |
Almost half a century after the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, many American cities – including New York; Washington, DC; Chicago; and Houston – are still vastly segregated by neighborhood. White people tend to group in certain areas, Black people in another, Asian people in another still.... |
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