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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 can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention? -
Test your working memory capacity for digits, shapes, and simple operation span -
Perceiving the world in more ways than one. -
What are mirror neurons? -
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia -
The neural basis for attention. -
How to make decisions in an uncertain world -
After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. -
View a number of pictures that highlight the specific sensitivity of different visual pathways -
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk? -
This demonstration enables you to explore a few different visual search tasks. -
Linking cognitive psychology and magic -
How the brain make sense of the external world -
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia -
In this little demonstration you can explore two isomorphic problems. -
How is language processed in the brain? -
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain -
How are working-memory capacity and attention related? -
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight -
Measure the angle of your blindspot -
Learn about the working memory model and its history -
Play with a light source to change the shape of objects -
This demonstrations allows you to explore a number of variables relevant for selective attention. -
Explore the limits of attention and memory through the Change Blindness paradigm. -
Our visual memory is not as good as we think... -
How to perceive through manual exploration. -
How neurons can be rebuilt -
Sometimes memory can be tricky - test your memory for word lists in this demo
Blog Roll
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False memories can be distinguished from real ones with a simple physiological test, report researchers from GermanyOur memories are not as accurate as we like to think they are. Every recollection is a reconstructive process, involving stitching together memory fragments rather than reproducing a... |
Huffington Post:
No one likes feeling left out, and a new study shows that even being ignored by a stranger hurts.
The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, is based on the idea that people need to feel connected to be happy, and that a person can be negatively affected when even a... |
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The Telegraph:
Experts say that a mum who nurtures and cares for her kids can set them up in good health right, even if they’ve grown up in grinding poverty.
Research has already proven that kids who grow up in poor areas are more likely to suffer from chronic illness in adulthood,... |
Yahoo News:
To promote staying sharp and remaining active as you age, http://www.SeniorsGuideOnline.com is encouraging seniors to play video games. Research and studies show that video games on the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 rank high in strengthening senior health and physical abilities.
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