Cognitive Psychology Links

General

Cognitive and Psychological Sciences: A Cognitive Science site. Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the mind in which Cognitive Psychologists, Computer Scientists, Linguists, and Philosophers participate to solve common problems.

Cognition and Memory - Summer 2004

Nigel Thomas Imagination, Mental Imagery, Consciousness, Cognition Science, Philosophy & History.

Connectionist Implications for Processing Capacity Limitations in Analogies

Key figures in the study of memory and cognition

Beautycheck - Home

Language (mainly animal language)

• Koko.org - Koko's World - Multimedia
• LRC New Home Page
• The Jane Goodall Institute: Founded by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, the Jane Goodall Institute is a global nonprofit that empowers people to make a difference for all living things.
• Great Ape Trust, Des Moines, Iowa
• The Animal Communication Project
• "Animal Language Article"
• NPR A Voluble Visit with Two Talking Apes
• Co-fostering of ape and boy
• The Alex Foundation
• Aphasia A Language Disorder

Object Recognition

• Lecture Series: "Object Recognition" given by Professor Biederman: Abstracts of 5 lectures. Not much information here but it gives you the idea of what sorts of issues are pertinent to the field of object recognition today.
• Visual Cognition Lab: The link to the Visual Cognition Lab in the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. Here you can find information about Inattentional blindness, change blindness and other interesting cognitive phenomena.  You can also see the videos used as stimuli in these and other experiments.

Subliminal Messages

• Subliminal Perception: An article explaining subliminal perception and some of the research examining it.
• Sex and Death Among the Ice Cubes: Website article describing subliminal messages in advertising

Parallel Distributed Processing Models Links

• Wickepedia has probably the most simple explanation.
• This report on neural networks presents a broad overview.  I believe it is useful in its discussion of the application of neural networks.
• This extensive overview of neural networks does a good job describing the baiscs.  It is especially useful for its description of how to train these networks

Attention

• Elizabeth F. Loftus University of Washington
• Anne Treisman: Anne Treisman is one of the leading researchers in the field of attention.  She is probably best known for her attenuator model of attention.  This is her home page.
• movie 15
• Stroop Test

Memory

• Memory and Reality
• Memory Memory Links
• Mind Tools - Techniques for improving your memory
• Mind Hacks: Essential sites for students
• Mental Heuristics Page
• The Memory Exhibition: This exhibition ran at the Exploratorium from 1998-1999 but because of popular demand they left up the site.  It contains demos and information about memory.
• Sensory Store:  Site posted by a professor for his Cognitive psychology class.  Good overview of sensory store.  He has even included demos.
• Memory Games:  This site runs Java applets with which you can challenge and strengthen (maybe) your memory skills

Repressed/Reconstructed Memories and False Memories Links

• The Repressed Memory Controversy: A great discussion of the validity of repressed memories. However, this article is very slanted towards disbelief in the "recovery" of repressed memories in therapy. It was written by Elizabeth Loftus so keep the viewpoint in mind when reading this.
• False Memory: The website of the false memory foundation.
• The British False Memory Page: A website for the purpose of "reviewing the controversy surrounding "recovered memories" and false accusations of childhood sexual abuse."
• Recovered Memory Therapy and False Memory Syndromes: An article discussing the dangers of therapy designed to recover "repressed" memories.  The article has a definite bias in that it is obvious the author is skeptical of the recovery of repressed memories.  This is a good article for information supporting this side of the repressed memory controversy.

Eyewitness Memory & Eyewitness Testimony

• Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory:  Site focuses on "research in eyewitness memory and identification, and many aspects of face recognition. In addition to being a research laboratory, the Laboratory offers instruction and research training for both graduate and undergraduate students."
• Faculty Eyewitness Memory Site:  Website created by Gary Wells, a faculty member at Iowa State University.  One of his research interests is Eyewitness Memory.  On his website is a collection of links related to eyewitness memory.

Mental imagery

• An Introduction to Cognitive Maps
• Cognitive Mapping
• Dr. Diane - Visual Imagery
• Kosslyn home page
• Mental Imagery
• Mental Images Philosophical Psychology
• prof_chuck’s blog » cog ch8 Visual Imagery

Human Factors

• Bad Human Factors Designs: A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.