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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Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
What are mirror neurons? -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
The neural basis for attention. -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects
Blog Roll
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In the dance of hiring, few steps are more scripted than checking job references. Hiring managers usually call references to confirm their instincts or because HR requires they do so. More often than not, candidates list references who will sing their praises. What’s more, research suggests that... |
Thomas Alva Edison famously opined that genius is “one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” Though the inventor and businessman fell short of self-identifying as an atheist, he also asserted, in a 1910 New York Times Magazine interview, that “Nature did it all—not the gods of the... |
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Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, remembers asking an undergraduate seminar recently, “How many of you are waiting to find your passion?”
“Almost all of them raised their hand and got dreamy looks in their eyes,” she told me. They talked about it “like a tidal wave would... |
When thanking someone, individuals may not fully appreciate the positive feelings that their expression of gratitude engenders. And that may explain why some people don’t show their appreciation more often, a recent study published in Psychological Science suggests.
“People don’t seem to walk... |
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