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 is language processed in the brain? -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
The neural basis for attention. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
What are mirror neurons? -
Learn about the working memory model and its history
Blog Roll
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The British Psychological Society:
The horrific killing of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese in New York in 1964 inspired research into what’s known in social psychology as the Bystander Phenomenon – our increased disinclination to intervene when in the company of others. That’s because early reports told... |
CBS:
Distracted driving is a major problem in the nation, ranging from what’s on the radio to making calls and texting while behind the wheel. And experts say it is only going to get worse.
Research going on at N.C. State University could be key to keeping you and your family safe from distracted... |
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The New York Times:
Despite your best intentions and efforts, it is inevitable: At some point in your life, you will be wrong.
Mistakes can be hard to digest, so sometimes we double down rather than face them. Our confirmation bias kicks in, causing us to seek out evidence to prove what we already... |
National Geographic:
Struggling to stay happy in a long-distance relationship? Here, have some puppy pictures.
It may sound like a mere distraction, but a new study published this week in Psychological Science found that people who were shown photos of puppies and bunnies next to a photo of... |
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