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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Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
What are mirror neurons? -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
The neural basis for attention. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention?
Blog Roll
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Diverse emotions like sadness, happiness, fear, and anger are all based on common building blocks of pleasant or unpleasant arousal, according to new research published in Psychological Science.
Previous research has focused on each emotion resulting from specialized and distinct brain circuitry.... |
The Dana news email blast for May 2013.
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At a Dana-sponsored lecture, Maria Karayiorgou, M.D., spoke about her lab's often frustrating research into genetics.
Dana |
The Atlantic:
The pre-societal, animal model of conflict resolution is simple, brutal, and effective. Leaving aside political gambles, moral considerations, and the like, the strong are more willing to fight for their self-interest, while the weak find it more advantageous not to assert themselves... |
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