Cognitive Links

These are from the Centre for Psychology Resources - http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/cognitive.shtml


Artificial Intelligence
Site has information concerning the history of artificial intelligence, the different approaches to creating artificial intelligence, its applications, interviews with experts in the field, and links to interactive sites.
Biases in Estimating Probabilities
Article discusses different biases that occur when estimating probabilities including the use of the availability rule, anchoring, expression of uncertainty, and base-rate fallacy.
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
Describes current research activities at this centre based at Indiana University.
CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive
"Welcome to CogPrints, an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vision, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition."
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Has information about the society and its activities.
Cognitive Psychology Tutor
Site provides tutorials on skill acquisition, inductive reasoning, problem solving, working memory, language, and spatial information processing.
Cognitive Science Dictionary
Award-winning dictionary of cognitive science terms that Dr. Michael Dawson maintains at the University of Alberta.
Color Matters
Site provides information about color and how it affects the brain, body, vision, design, and art.
Connectionist Models of Cognitive, Affective, Brain, and Behavioural Disorders
Discusses connectionist and neural models developed to characterize cognitive, affective, brain, and behavioural disorders. Also provides links to additional resources.
Conversations with Neil's Brain
A web book about "the neural nature of thought and learning.".
Culture, Cognition, and Evolution
Article relates the development of cognition to culture and evolution.
Eliza
Talk to Eliza and get a demonstration of artificial intelligence and nondirective psychotherapy.
Gestalt Archive
Site provides "Gestalt theory and Gestalt psychology articles in full text.".
History of Cognitive Psychology
Site provides a brief overview of the influential figures in cognitive psychology.
Imprinting in Precocial Birds
Demonstration lets you manipulate the variables in this experiment about imprinting in precocial birds.
Industriousness
This article discusses the learned industriousness theory and the roles that honesty and creativity play in the theory.
International Association for Near-Death Studies
Site provides information about near-death experiences.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Work in AI published here.
Keeping an Open Mind
Site discusses mental ruts, mental tools that can be used to keep an open mind, how to stimulate creative thinking, and the organizational environment needed to create new ideas.
Mind Tools -- Problem Solving and Analytical Techniques
Methods useful in problem solving.
Minds Are Simply What Brains Do
Article discusses the perception of the discontinuity between the mind and the brain, memory and change, embodiments of the mind, freedom of will, and the uncertainty and stability of the mind.
Mission: Critical
Supports a virtual lab that encourages users to engage in critical thinking. Includes discussions about the various parts of an argument, the analysis of arguments, common fallacies, and non-rational persuasion.
Motivational Factors in Routine Performance
Site enables you to manipulate the variables in this experiment to demonstrate the motivational factors in routine performance.
Music Cognition Resource Center
Music cognition resources sponsored by the Music Cognition Group of the Ohio State University.
Psych/Lab (TM)
Software is provided at this site that enables individuals to perform classic human cognitive experiments.
PsychLab On-Line
This site provides 11 different psychology experiments that let the student manipulate the variables to discover for themselves how various concepts actually work. The experiments available are mental rotation, visual search, Mueller-Lyer illusion, Poggendorf illusion, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, sleep and dreams, split brain syndrome, and feature detecting neurons.
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
This online book provides information concerning memory, perception, tools for thinking, and cognitive biases.
Psychology, Culture, and Evolution
This site discusses consciousness; the evolution of the brain, consciousness, language, and sociality; sleep paralysis; and nocturnal hallucinations.
Subliminal Perception
Article provides some information about subliminal perception which "occurs whenever stimuli presented below the threshold or limen for awareness are found to influence thoughts, feelings, or actions.".
The Cognitive Basis of Gender Stereotypes
Site discusses a few examples of the thought patterns that contribute to gender stereotypes. The media's contribution to gender stereotypes is also discussed.
Theory Into Practice (TIP)
This site provides summaries of numerous theories found in behaviourism, cognition, and educational psychology.
Thinking About Thought
This on-line book discusses cognition, connectionism, consciousness, free will, emotions, ecological realism, quantum and relativity theory, and other topics.
Web Vision
Site provides information concerning many aspects of vision including the anatomy and physiology of the eye, retinal circuits, neuroactive substances in the retina, color vision, psychophysics, and the primary visual cortex.
ePsych
Site provides a number of unique tutorials and demonstrations that focus on various functions of the brain including sensation and perception, cognition, transmission of neural impulses, and learning.
ePsychlopedia
Site provides 10 different tutorials covering the topics of brain and behavior, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning, motivation and emotion, cognition, intelligence, personality, and social psychology.
Consciousness
Consciousness and Cognition
Article discusses the first person and third person approaches to consciousness and cognition, the relationship between these two approaches, the coherence test, and why we think we are conscious.
Consciousness, Folk Psychology, and Cognitive Science
This article defines consciousness, challenges the folk concept of consciousness, and looks at the roles which intrinsic qualities and self attribution play in consciousness.
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
Article outlines the theory of consciousness, discusses the problems of consciousness, and provides a functional and non-reductive explanation of these problems.
Hypnosis
Site describes hypnosis; subconscious, unconscious, and self hypnosis; and the history of hypnosis.
Key Concepts in Hypnosis
Site provides the definition of hypnosis, the history of hypnosis, and addresses a number of issues and concerns related to hypnosis.
Online Papers on Consciousness
Site provides links to over 700 "online papers on consciousness and related topics.".
States of Consciousness
Site provides information about hypnosis, out-of-the-body experiences, dreams, and lucid dreams.
The Neurophysiology of Hypnosis
Article provides information about the history of hypnosis, current theories and evidence of hypnosis, and a description of the physiological events in the body during hypnosis.
The Problem of Consciousness
"This paper attempts to begin to answer four questions. 1. What is consciousness? 2. What is the relation of consciousness to the brain? 3. What are some of the features that an empirical theory of consciousness should try to explain? 4. What are some common mistakes to avoid?"
Language
Auditory Analysis and Speech Communication
Site provides a summary of research conducted by ASC concerning auditory representation, auditory analysis in the perception of spoken language, and interactions between speech perception and production.
Brains Show Signs of Two Bilingual Roads
Article discusses how people who learn a second language early in life use the same area of the brain as when speaking their native language
Language Acquisition
Article discusses the biology of language acquisition, the maturation of our language system, and the course of language acquisition.
Language and Brain: Neurocognitive Linguistics
Site provides a discussion about evidence for neurolinguistics, the plausibility of neurolinguistics, neural networks used in language, the learning process, the proximity principle, and the types of cortical neurons used in language learning.
Language and Culture
This tutorial discusses what language is, the analysis of language, the learning of language, language and thought processes, and the hidden aspects of communication.
National Aphasia Association
Site provides facts and links to readings about aphasia which is "an impairment of the ability to use or comprehend words, usually acquired as a result of a stroke or other brain injury.".
Primate Use of Language
Site discusses studies that are currently being done which show that primates are capable of learning language.
Psych: Psycholinguistic Database
Site contains a psycholinguistic data base and a word association thesaurus.
The Role of Language in Intelligence
This article taken from the Darwin College Lectures discusses the role of language in thought and looks at the behaviours of animals to discern the role that language plays.
Memory
Age-Associated Memory Impairment
Text of a Tuomo Hanninen's thesis on this topic contains an extensive literature review of the field.
Amnesia and Cognition Unit - University of Arizona
Describes research activities in progress; primary concern is with memory changes due to aging and brain injury.
Attention and Memory
Site provides notes on the development of cognitive psychology, sensory memory, signal detection theory, short term memory and long term memory.
Creating False Memories
Site discusses false childhood memories, imagination inflation, impossible memories, and how false memories are formed.
Definition of Memory and Memory Implications
Site provides a description of memory, amnesia, implicit memory, and the accuracy of memory.
Elizabeth F. Loftus
This is the web site of Elizabeth F. Loftus who is a researcher interested in false memories. The page provides links to a number of articles she has written on this topic.
Human Memory
Presents a number of memory improvement techniques and illustrates how human memory can be measured.
Mathematical Models of Human Memory - Tutorials
A group of well-organized tutorials that teach the application of several mathematical models of memory.
Memory
This site takes a look at memory and how it is related to emotions and dreams. The site also discusses levels of personal awareness and cognitive perceptual theory.
Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
This article is about Ebbinghaus' famous experiment about memory and learning.
Memory: How Do We Remember What We Know
Article discusses the components of the memory system and the relation between memory and intelligence analysis.
Sheep Brain Dissection: The Anatomy of Memory
Site uses a sheep brain to show the anatomy of the parts of the brain vital to memory.
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
This site provides the online version of George A. Miller's article about his discovery of "some limits on our capacity for processing information.".
Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomena: An Introductory Phenomenological Analysis
Article discusses the tip-of-the-tongue phenomena.
Verbal Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension
Article discusses "working memory, syntactic processing, [and] sentence comprehension.".