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 -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
The neural basis for attention. -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
What are mirror neurons? -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span
Blog Roll
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Hope springs eternal. At least on New Year’s. On this first of January, the coming year is a blank slate. It’s a time when we can set our goals – to exercise more, to eat less, to perform our best – in the hopes of making 2019 a year that we can look back on with pride. There’s one problem,... |
Bottoms down: It’s Dry January.
For Heather Molnar that means holding the gin in her gin and
tonic for the rest of the month and substituting that end-of-day glass
of wine with kombucha.
“I like to put it in a wine glass or something fancy,” says Ms.
Molnar, a 46-year-old content... |
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Plenty of people learn about ideas in psychology, but Kellie
Gillespie, a writer based in London, did something unusual. She took
what she had learned in the class, and applied it in her own life.
“My life changed after doing Professor Plous’ course,” Kellie says.
The... |
The practice of paying children an allowance kicked off in earnest about 100 years ago. “The motivation was twofold,” says Steven Mintz, a historian of childhood at the University of Texas at Austin. “First, to provide kids with the money that they needed to participate in the emerging... |
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