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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What are mirror neurons? -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
The neural basis for attention. -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How is language processed in the brain? -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
How neurons can be rebuilt
Blog Roll
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WASHINGTON — Whether you’re an iPerson who can’t live without a Mac, a Facebook addict, or a gamer, you know that social media and technology say things about your personality and thought processes. And psychological scientists know it too – they’ve started researching how new media and... |
Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, Columbia University, talks about the importance of acknowledging and learning from what we don’t know in science.
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Disaster, Response, and Recovery featuring Silvia H. Koller (Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Brazil) and Dirk Helbing (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
Biological Beings in Social Context featuring Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom)
Music,... |
Contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief, parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than people without children, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University. Parents also are... |
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