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| psychology.wadsworth.com/ Set of resources including Coon's Introduction to Psychology, and Barlow and Durand's Abnormal Psychology, Kalat's Biological Psychology and a searchable catalogue. | |
| umsl.edu/~philo/Mind_Seminar/New%20Pages/papers.html Collection of essays adopting a philosophical approach to the theoretical analysis of folk psychology - the means by which individuals understand, thoughts, predict, and explain the actions and motivations of others. | ||
| cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/jlaird.prob.html Paper suggesting that even intelligent adults make inferences when reasoning which seem obvious but are, in fact, totally erroneous. | ||
| odci.gov/csi/books/19104/index.html Full text publication addressing the mental processes involved when dealing with problems containing incomplete or ambiguous information. Describes human mental machinery such as perceptual skills and memory, tools for thinking, and cognitive biases, and | ||
| ai.mit.edu/people/minsky/ Information about the life and works of Minsky who has contributed to the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. Includes access to full text publications and details of resea | ||
| cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/ericsson.long.html Paper arguing that models of working memory should be based on storage in long-term memory if they are to account for cognitive processing of skilled activities such as text comprehension, medical diagnosis, mental calculation and playing chess. | ||
| cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/searle.comp.html Explores the idea of the computer as a model of the mind, investigating the concepts of the brain as a digital computer and the mind as a computer program, and asking whether the operations of the brain can be simulated on a computer. | ||
| bbc.co.uk/testthenation/ Presents the results of the BBC Test the Nation IQ Test, conducted via the Internet on 11th May 2002. Features maps of IQ results showing which parts of the country took part along with their scores, and graphs of results according to age, eyesight, smoki | ||
| channel4.com/plus/disgust/ Resource established to accompany a Channel 4 series investigating the human disgust response and the various uses to which associated reactions can be put. Considers what disgusts different people and why, how this is often used to isolate particular soc | ||
| news.wisc.edu/packages/emotion/ Documents research into human emotion which investigates the brain areas and chemicals involved, effects on immune, cardiovascular and endocrine systems, and reasons for different manifestations of emotions in different people. Highlights studies into bot | ||
| colormatters.com/ Considers the effect of various colours on the brain, body, and vision. Explains why some colours are more likely to cause accidents in certain situations, discusses cultural beliefs relating to colour, and looks at the differences in response to colours | ||
| braintheory.net/ Collection of essays which attempt to develop a theoretical analysis of the different medical practices and issues inherent in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and neurological disorders. | ||
| watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~pmerikle/papers/uncons-percept-full.html Reviews the history of investigations into the perception of stimuli by the unconscious brain and summarises the current status of experimental research which suggests the importance of unconsciously perceived information in determining cognitive and affe | ||
| cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/loftus.mem.html Article on the effects of retroactive interference, discussing how the receipt of misleading information after an event can alter a person's recollection leading to memories of objects that never in fact existed. | ||
| nous.org.uk/belief.html Provides book reviews of publications discussing topics such as irrationality, the paranormal, magic, delusions, superstition and associated beliefs. | ||
| psych.uoregon.edu/~arousal/ Offers details of projects, contact information, and full text transcriptions of recent publications. Articles relating to research in trait, cognitive, and brain electrophysiology, which deal with the issues of emotion and affective disorders. | ||
| cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/Miller/miller.html Explores the recurrence of the number seven in measurements of the amount of information that we are able to receive, process, and remember. | ||
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