Science Education - Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Dichotic Listening
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University It is a well-known fact that the human ability to process incoming stimuli is ...

Measuring Reaction Time and Donders' Method of Subtraction
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University The ambition of experimental psychology is to characterize the mental events that ...

Visual Search for Features and Conjunctions
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University How do people find objects in cluttered visual scenes? Think, for example, of ...

Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University As an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins ...

Binocular Rivalry
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Why do people have two forward-facing eyes? By presenting the brain with two ever ...

Multiple Object Tracking
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University In a staggeringly complex and engaging world, it is crucial to selectively process ...

Approximate Number Sense Test
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University A common carnival game is to ask people to guess the number of jellybeans packed ...

Mental Rotation
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Visual mental imagery refers to the ability to conjure images in one’s ...

Prospect Theory
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University What’s the value of a dollar? Currencies store value to facilitate trade. ...

Measuring Verbal Working Memory Span
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Why is it relatively hard to remember everything on a shopping list if it includes ...

The Precision of Visual Working Memory with Delayed Estimation
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Human memory is limited. Throughout most of its history, experimental psychology ...

Verbal Priming
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Human memory seems to work in two broad ways. Like modern computers, the human ...

Incidental Encoding
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Long-term memory is a critical feature of human cognition, and it has been a ...

Visual Statistical Learning
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University The visual environment contains massive amounts of information involving the ...

Motor Learning in Mirror Drawing
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Colloquially, the terms learning and memory encompass a broad range of behaviors ...