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 make decisions in an uncertain world -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
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 neurons can be rebuilt -
What are mirror neurons? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
The neural basis for attention. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
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. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
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 -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks.
Blog Roll
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WASHINGTON — Whether you’re an iPerson who can’t live without a Mac, a Facebook addict, or a gamer, you know that social media and technology say things about your personality and thought processes. And psychological scientists know it too – they’ve started researching how new media and... |
Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, Columbia University, talks about the importance of acknowledging and learning from what we don’t know in science.
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Disaster, Response, and Recovery featuring Silvia H. Koller (Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Brazil) and Dirk Helbing (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
Biological Beings in Social Context featuring Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom)
Music,... |
Contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief, parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than people without children, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University. Parents also are... |
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