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Cognitive
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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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How is language processed in the brain? -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
What are mirror neurons? -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
The neural basis for attention. -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Learn about the working memory model and its history
Blog Roll
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Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science:
Ethical Free Riding: When Honest People Find Dishonest Partners
Jörg Gross, Margarita Leib, Theo Offerman, and Shaul Shalvi
Do honest people turn dishonest when they partner with a liar? Gross and colleagues investigated how... |
Drawing from almost 200 scientific studies on workplace meetings, a team of psychological scientists provides recommendations for making the most out of meetings before they start, as they’re happening, and after they’ve concluded. Their report is published in Current Directions in Psychological... |
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We’d like to start with a quick story—a story about two scientists who ignored their parents’ warnings about talking to strangers on the internet and, as a result, ended up writing grants, organizing professional development workshops, and—eventually—working together on this Letters to Young... |
The way horses see the world is almost entirely differently to that of humans — from the distances they can see, to the colors they can process.
New research carried out by the University of Exeter not only provides a better understanding of equine vision, but also demonstrates how the... |
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