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 the brain make sense of the external world -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
What are mirror neurons? -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How is language processed in the brain? -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
The neural basis for attention. -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain
Blog Roll
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Misinformation on social media is not a new problem, but we may never have felt its impact so strongly as in 2020. That’s because this year misinformation has contributed to the death of thousands from coronavirus. The problem of combating incorrect health advice has seemed insurmountable.... |
On an autumn night in 1979, a young cab driver named Jeffrey Boyajian was sitting in his taxi, waiting for his next fare. It was around 4 a.m., and he was parked in downtown Boston’s red-light district, known then as the ‘Combat Zone.’
Three men approached the curb and got into... |
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APS Member/Author: Roxane Cohen Silver
As a psychological scientist who investigates how individuals and communities respond to collective traumas, I study human resilience in a range of situations—from earthquakes and hurricanes to mass violence and war. Shortly after the 11 September 2001... |
When U.S. schools begin the next academic year with the country still fighting the coronavirus pandemic, students should spend half their time in classrooms and half doing online activities that pinpoint their individual learning style such as videos or reading.
That advice comes from Nimish... |
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