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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Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How is language processed in the brain? -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
The neural basis for attention. -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
What are mirror neurons? -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight
Blog Roll
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Teaser: The benefits of interventions—actions or policies intended to elicit a change in a person’s life—may either be lasting or fade over time. A review of hundreds of prior studies provides guidance on which educational interventions are most likely to create lasting effects.
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The Role of Attentional Control in Cognitive Deficits Associated With Chronic PainHazel K. Godfrey, Amy T. Walsh, Ronald Fischer, and Gina M. GrimshawChronic pain has been associated with cognitive deficits that in turn have been attributed to reduced attentional control involving everyday tasks,... |
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I am pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has selected Robert E. Gropp, Ph.D., as the next APS Executive Director, effective November 16. Rob’s career spans 26 years of experience with scientific societies, on Capitol Hill, with government agencies, and in academia. Rob comes to APS from... |
Roomba sales are soaring, suggesting that millions of people trust the robotic vacuums’ room-navigation algorithms and powerful suction power to keep their floors clean. Similarly, few computer users object to the statistical models and other algorithms that help us conduct web searches, see... |
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