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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Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
What are mirror neurons? -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
The neural basis for attention. -
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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NPR:
Standard economic theory assumes that humans behave rationally and are able to objectively calculate the value (or cost) of the different choices they are presented with. In fact, we pride ourselves on our rationality. Different from the animals, we humans have the unique capacity for logical... |
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science:
Personality Predicts Individual Variation in Fear Learning: A Multilevel Growth Modeling Approach
Femke J. Gazendam, Jan H. Kamphuis, Annemarie Eigenhuis, Hilde M. H. Huizenga, Marieke Soeter, Marieke G. N. Bos, Dieuwke... |
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The New York Times:
Since the advent of the deadline, procrastinators have suffered society’s barbs for putting off until later what needs doing now. But it turns out that many people appear to be finishing things sooner than they need to get them done. They are “precrastinators,” researchers say... |
The Boston Globe:
IN HIS BEST-SELLING BOOK “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion—based on a 1993 article in a psychology journal—that top performers were mainly differentiated by extensive practice (10,000+ hours), and not innate ability. However, a new analysis of dozens of studies... |
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