Brain and Behavior
External resources and links
(a supplement to Serendip's Brain and Behavior materials [3]
and a Neurobiology and Behavior course [4];
suggestions for additions welcome in the on-line forum area below)
Neurosciences on the Internet [5]
The World Wide Web Virtual Library - Neuroscience [6]
Internet Neuroscience Resources [7]
Neuroscience Journals on the Internet [8]
The Brain Web and Brain Resource Center [9], from the Dana Foundation, "provides information and links to validated sites about brain diseases and disorders." Also "Brainy Kids Online," "Brain Resources for Seniors," "BrainWork [10]," "Brain in the News [11]," "Neuroethics [12]," "NeuroEd [13]" and "Cerebrum [14]" (an on-line magazine)
Neuroscience for Kids [15] - a wealth of information and resource lists, not just for kids. Includes "Neuroscience in the News [16]" and "Milestones in Neuroscience Research [17],"
Neuroanthropology [18], "a collaborative weblog, created to encourage exchanges among anthropology, philosophy, social theory, and the brain sciences"
William H. Calvin [19]- "mostly on brains, evolution, and where we're heading", links to his own books and other things
The Brain Project [20] - by Stephen Jones, "chapters on various issues related to consciousness"
Classics in the history of psychology [21] - a major resource of online texts and links to online texts
MIT CogNet [22] - "an online location for the brain and cognitive science community's scientific research"
Psychology Tutorials and Demonstrations [23] - a rich collection of materials by and from John Krantz, Hanover College
Neuroscience OnLine: Electronic Textbook for the Neurosciences [24] - from University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Sheep Brain Dissection Guide [25] - from the University of Scranton Neuroscience Program
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections [26] - from the University of Wisconsin
Digital Anatomist [28] - from the University of Washington, includes interactive brain atlas
Neuroscience Tutorial [29] - from Washington University, an illustrated guide to clinical neuroscience
Neurons [30] - from the University of Toronto
Neuroscience Animations [31] - John Krantz, Hanover College
Perception
Seeing, hearing, and smelling the world [32] - from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sensation and Perception Tutorials [33] - from John Krantz, Hanover College
Visual Perception Online Laboratory [34] - Purdue Universitiy
Mark Newbold's Home Page [35] - various fun/miscellaneous animations, including Stereo 3D Stuff [36] and Necker Cube [37]
Musical Illusions and Paradoxes [39] - by Diana Deutsch, University of California San Diego, including downloadable material
You must be hearing things [40] - (pdf) from CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks for Kids
A Memory for Faces, Extreme Version [41] (NYT, 25 May 2009)
And on ...
Developmental Topographical Disorientation [42] - "...a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory dedicated to investigate the individuals' inability to orient in an environment, a condition that is commonly known as topographical disorientation..."
Cognition Laboratory Experiments [43] - by John Krantz, Hanover College
Circadian Technologies, Inc. [44] - includes tutorials on circadian rhythms, sleep, alertness
Parasomnias - Arousal Disorders Information [45] - from The Sleep Well [46], Stanford University
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness [47]
Psychological Tutorials and Demonstrations [23] - compiled/created by John Krantz, Department of Psychology, Hanover College
Sleepwalking: Insanity or Automatism [48] - by Peter Ridgway, Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Australia
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School [49] - (1999) by the Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, National Research Council, from the National Academy Press, available on line.
Forensic psychiatry, a resource list [50]
News articles
Reading Practice Can Strengthen Brain 'Highways' [51] (NPR, 12/9/09) and related article [52] in the journal Neuron
How to Train the Aging Brain [53] (NYT, 12/29/2009)
Comments
Brain resource addition [54]
Gender Differences in Children and Adolescents [57]
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