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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Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
What are mirror neurons? -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How is language processed in the brain? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
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. -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
The neural basis for attention. -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
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 -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related?
Blog Roll
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Hope springs eternal. At least on New Year’s. On this first of January, the coming year is a blank slate. It’s a time when we can set our goals – to exercise more, to eat less, to perform our best – in the hopes of making 2019 a year that we can look back on with pride. There’s one problem,... |
Bottoms down: It’s Dry January.
For Heather Molnar that means holding the gin in her gin and
tonic for the rest of the month and substituting that end-of-day glass
of wine with kombucha.
“I like to put it in a wine glass or something fancy,” says Ms.
Molnar, a 46-year-old content... |
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Plenty of people learn about ideas in psychology, but Kellie
Gillespie, a writer based in London, did something unusual. She took
what she had learned in the class, and applied it in her own life.
“My life changed after doing Professor Plous’ course,” Kellie says.
The... |
The practice of paying children an allowance kicked off in earnest about 100 years ago. “The motivation was twofold,” says Steven Mintz, a historian of childhood at the University of Texas at Austin. “First, to provide kids with the money that they needed to participate in the emerging... |
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