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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
A web video showing the set-up, running, and data analysis of an experiment in which transcranial magnetic stimulation is used to investigate the brain region involved in the phonological processing of words.

Theories and Hypotheses Related to Cognitive Architectures
A web page providing an overview of cognitive architectures and their relationship to results from fields such as cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.

Roots of Cognitive Psychology
A history of cognitive psychology from its philosophical roots to modern cognitive science and connectionist theories.

Hitting a Nerve
An overview of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and its relationship to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
A description of the therapeutic application of transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat depression including a description of the procedure, the risks involved, and the factors influencing its effectiveness.

The Whole Brain Atlas
An electronic and interactive whole brain atlas with views of the normal brain and brains that have been damaged by stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. It also includes a Neuroimaging Primer which provides examples of the various slice orientations and image types (e.g., MRI, CT, SPECT/PET).

ERPinfo
A non-profit website that provides an introduction to the event-related potential (ERP) technique including links to ERP product reviews, open source software, and training workshops for beginning and intermediate researchers.

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Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
An interactive demonstration of the inverted face effect.

Moon Illusion
An interactive demonstration of the moon illusion.

Malperception
A simulation of the optic field of a visual agnostic.

Handwriting
An interactive demonstration on handwriting legibility.

Types of Agnosias
A web page featuring information about agnosia including a demonstration of the perceptual difficulties of apperceptive agnosia.

Prosopagnosia
A web page on prosopagnosia including the cues prosopagnosics use to identify familiar people.

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Selective Attention (Auditory Demonstration)
An interactive demonstration of auditory selective attention.

Attentional Blink Experiment  
An interactive demonstration of attentional blink.

Word Superiority Experiment
An interactive demonstration of the word superiority effect.

Demos
A series of interactive demonstrations involving visual attention.

Visual Cognition Demonstrations
A series of interactive demonstrations from the Yale Perception and Cognition laboratory featuring inattentional blindness and change blindness tasks

Human Multi-task Performance and Attention Limits
A website featuring various interactive demonstrations on human multi-task performance and attentional processes.

Interactive Stroop Effect Experiment
An interactive demonstration of the Stroop Effect.

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Astound Demonstrations
An interactive demonstration based on Waugh and Norman’s (1965) retroactive interference study.

Sternbeg’s STM Scan Demo
An interactive demonstration of Sternbeg’s short-term memory scanning experiment.

Instructions for the Serial Position Experiment
An interactive demonstration of the serial position effect.

Working Memory Capacity
An interactive demonstration of working memory capacity using digits, shapes, and math problems as stimuli.

Cognitive Tests: Working Memory Test
An interactive demonstration of the n-back task.

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The Levels-of-Processing Approach
An interactive demonstration of the levels-of-processing effect.

Recent Demonstrations
An interactive demonstration of the self-reference effect.

Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon
A web page providing information about the tip of the tongue state including an interactive demonstration which induces the tip of the tongue state.

Do You Have FLASH Memories?
An interactive quiz designed to uncover your flashbulb memories.

Encoding Specificity
An interactive demonstration of the encoding specificity principle.

Recent Demonstrations
An interactive demonstration of the spacing effect.

The Synesthesia Battery
A test battery to determine if you have synesthesia.

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Memory Demo Content
An interactive demonstration of false memory.

Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory
An interactive demonstration of false identification of suspects in police lineups.

False Recall and False Recognition
Click on “Recent Demonstrations” and scroll down the page to “False Recall and False Recognition” for an interactive demonstration of false memory based on Roediger and McDermott’s (1995) study. 

What Jennifer Saw
Frontline expose of the Ronald Cotton eyewitness misidentification case.

Was Frank Fuster a “Monster”?
Frontline expose on the repressed memory syndrome and its role in the sexual abuse case against Frank Fuster.

Elizabeth Loftus: The Fiction of Memory
Elizabeth Loftus’ Ted Talk on false memories.

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Instructions for the Mental Rotation Experiment
An interactive demonstration of the mental rotation task.

Imagery: Imagery Value vs. Meaningfulness
Click on “Recent Demonstrations” and scroll down the page to “Imagery: Imagery value vs. meaningfulness” for an interactive demonstration of Paivio, Smith, and Yuille’s (1968) study on memory recall for words based on meaningfulness vs. the imagery value of the words.

Latent Semantic Analysis
An interactive demonstration of latent semantic analysis.

Prototypes
An interactive demonstration of Posner and Keele’s (1968) classic study on prototypes.

Link Word
An interactive demonstration of the link word mnemonic that uses visual imagery to enhance memory.

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Aphasia Quiz
National Aphasia Association’s quiz on aphasia

Primate Use of Language
A web page discussing language use in primates.

The Brain – Language and Speech, Broca’s and Wernicke’s Area
A video on Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas.

1973 - Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees
A video demonstrating how to teach sign language to chimpanzees.

ELIZA
An interactive demonstration of human-computer interaction with ELIZA, one of the earliest attempts at artificial intelligence.

Sentence Memory: Inferences
Click on “Recent Demonstrations” and scroll down the page to “Sentence Memory: Inferences” for an interactive demonstration based on Bransford, Barclay, and Franks’ (1972) experiment on memory for sentences.

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The Elevator
The elevator riddle which demonstrates how hints can be helpful in solving insight problems.

Tower of Hanoi
An interactive demonstration of the Tower of Hanoi.

Creativity Test: Insight Problems
An interactive demonstration of verbal, mathematical, and spatial insight problems.

Creativity Test: Remote Association Task (Mednick, 1962)
An interactive demonstration of the Remote Association Task.

IQ Boost with Dual n-back Test
An interactive demonstration of the dual 2-back task similar to the task used in the Jaeggi et al. (2008) study to improve working memory through training.

Raven Test
An interactive demonstration of the Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test of fluid intelligence.

METACOGNITION: Study Strategies, Monitoring, and Motivation
Provides an overview of metacognition and highlights its application to student learning and studying practices.

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Representiveness Heuristic
Click on the link for the Representativeness Heuristic to participate in an interactive demonstration.

Availability Heuristic
Click on the link for the Availability Heuristic to participate in an interactive demonstration.

Gambler’s Fallacy
Click on the link for the Gambler’s Fallacy to participate in an interactive demonstration.

Cognitive Psychology
On the main page scroll down to Test 1: Confirmation Bias and follow the instructions for the card task.

Iowa Gambling Task Demo
An interactive demonstration of the Iowa Gambling Task.

The Wason Selection Task
An interactive demonstration of the Wason Selection Task.

Thinking & Decision Making
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the demonstrations of the framing effect.