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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Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals. -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
How is language processed in the brain? -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
The neural basis for attention. -
Improving memory by improving learning strategies -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
What are mirror neurons? -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia
Blog Roll
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The Guardian:
The ability to read well and do maths at an early age has been found by researchers to be a key factor in deciding whether people go on to get a high income job later in their lives.
Psychological scientist Timothy Bates and PhD psychology student Stuart Ritchie from Edinburgh... |
NPR:
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is the latest subject in our Desktop Diaries series, although he has no desk. Kahneman, professor emeritus at Princeton University, won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2002 for his research with the late Amos Tversky on our sometimes... |
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The Atlantic:
Millennials are the “ME ME ME GENERATION,” writes Joel Stein for the cover of Time magazine, which is apparently a marked departure from the Baby Boomers, who were the plain old “Me Generation” (one me, no caps) and who created the “Me Decade” in... |
The Huffington Post:
The mind-boggling events of the past month — the Boston Marathon bombings, the fertilizer plant explosion near Waco, a deadly collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh — will undoubtedly leave in their wake a host of survivors suffering from post-traumatic stress... |
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