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 the brain make sense of the external world -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
What are mirror neurons? -
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. -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
The neural basis for attention. -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight
Blog Roll
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TED:
What are our screens and devices doing to us? Psychologist Adam Alter studies how much time screens steal from us and how they’re getting away with it. He shares why all those hours you spend staring at your smartphone, tablet or computer might be making you miserable — and what... |
Harvard Business Review:
How often have you put off doing something fun, like taking a trip or treating yourself, because you felt that you had too much work to do, and you had to get it all done first?
My laboratory has surveyed people from all walks of life about their preferences for ordering... |
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Washington DC’s Mayor Muriel Bowser is turning to an integrative team of scientists as part of a new effort to utilize evidence-based policy to improve city governance. The Lab @ DC, which operates in tandem with the City Administrator’s Office, is led by psychological scientist David Yokum, a... |
Quartz:
Neuroticism won’t make life more enjoyable, but it can help it last longer, according to a four-year study published this month in Psychological Science.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, University of Southampton, and University College London found that higher neuroticism was... |
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