Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Video Links

• Test Yourself: Stroop Effect
  A nice video version of the Stroop task that students can try at home or in class.

• The Impossible Texting and Driving Test.
  Great Belgian video in which driving students are asked to text while driving on a closed course.

• Mythbusters - Cell Phones vs. Drunk Driving
  Carrie and Adam of “Mythbusters” attempt to test the “myth” that driving with a cell phone is just as dangerous as driving drunk. There are 3 parts to the video; all three links are included. This is lengthy but very engaging.

Audio Links

• Why Seeing (The Unexpected) Is Often Not Believing.
  Morning Edition explores research on inattentional blindness and how it affected a real police officer in an unexpected way.

• Caution: Walking and Cell Phones Don’t Mix
  Divided attention gets a lot of bad press in the context of driving. But cell phone use can be just as deadly to pedestrians, as this Weekend Edition Sunday story reports.

• Guns, Tumors and the Limits of the Human Eye
  The impact of change blindness on radiologists and airport security personnel is discussed on this episode of All Things Considered. The NPR website also contains a good video example of change blindness with which to test yourself and your students.

Web Resources

• Stroop Effect
  “Colors, Colors?” A simple demonstration of the Stroop Effect, along with a link to further information on the neuropsychology of the effect. This page also includes a reference to some intriguing personal anecdotes about “Brother Stroop,” the discoverer of the effect. Part of the “Neuroscience for Kids” collection, developed by Eric H. Chudler of the University of Washington.
  Follow-up exercise: Have students run the interactive Stroop experiment several times. Does practice help? Do any students develop strategies that diminish the Stroop effect?

• The Stroop Effect on Mount Everest
  This is one of my favorite interactive Stroop tasks on the web. It is part of the “NOVA Online” coverage of a ‘97 Mount Everest expedition; the Stroop test was one of many neuropsychological tests given to the climbers at varying altitudes. The site includes links to many fascinating items about the Everest expedition, as well as other neuropsychological tests given to the climbers.
  Follow-up exercise: Have students discuss other contexts in which this type of neuro-behavioral test could be used.

• The Musical Stroop Effect
  This website from John H. Krantz of Hanover College allows students to run a musical “Stroop” experiment with 20-200 trials of congruent and incongruent tunes. Warning: You need to have at least a few students in your class who are very proficient at reading music; students who are less “fluent” will not show the effect.