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Free access to materials for students, educators, and researchers in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Videos and Demos
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After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
How is language processed in the brain? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
The neural basis for attention. -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
What are mirror neurons? -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span
Blog Roll
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A study with 32 transgender children, ages 5 to 12, indicates that the gender identity of these children is deeply held and is not the result of confusion about gender identity or pretense. The study, led by psychological scientist Kristina Olson of the University of Washington, is one of the first... |
The Wall Street Journal:
Every January the intellectual impresario and literary agent John Brockman (who represents me, I should disclose) asks a large group of thinkers a single question on his website, edge.org. This year it is: “What do you think about machines that think?” There are lots of... |
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Refinery29:
Your best friends know your favorite band and brunch place and exactly what movie will cheer you up. Sometimes, you may even feel like they know you better than you know yourself. Now, research suggests they might be able to accurately predict some pretty big things — like how long you... |
It’s human nature to want other people to think well of us. And indeed we are often called upon to put our best foot forward—highlighting our accomplishments and character traits in job interviews and on first dates. So we get a lot of practice in effective self-presentation.
Then why are so many... |
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