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🧠 Cognitive Science

How minds perceive, decide and misjudge — perception, gestalt grouping, collective decision-making and cognitive bias.

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Artificial Consciousness (2D): Integrated Information NetworkNew📱A flat node-link diagram where clustered model neurons diffuse activation and a live Φ proxy… Claim-Evidence Bayesian Belief Network (2D)New📱2D Bayesian reasoning lab: a claim node with a prior probability updates through real… Vigilance Decrement: A Signal-Detection Radar WatchNew📱The playable 2D sibling of the 3D vigilance model: click to flag a rare, fading target ring… Brain Aging & Cognition: Fluid vs Crystallized (2D)New📱Drag an age slider from 20 to 90 and watch two documented cognitive-aging trends diverge on… Personnel Selection Utility Analysis 2DNew📱A 2D utility-analysis simulator: a pannable, zoomable candidate scatter plot, a live… Predictive Coding 2D: Free-Energy Network & Error ConsoleNew📱2D predictive-coding console: watch the same three-layer hierarchical network minimise… Face-Space Coding 2D: Population-Vector Decoder SimulatorNew📱A hand-drawn 2D projection of norm-based face-space coding, dragged to rotate: a population… Flow Channel Map: Skill vs. Challenge in Self-Directed LearningNew📱Interactive 2D flow-channel map for self-directed learning: a top-down heatmap of every… Syllable Stream Segmentation LabNew📱Watch transitional-probability statistics carve word boundaries out of a continuous stream… Eysenck's PEN Model: 2D Personality SpaceNew📱Interactive 2D projection of Eysenck's PEN personality model: drag to rotate a wireframe… Arousal–Performance Curve (2D): The Yerkes-Dodson LawNew📱Interactive 2D heatmap and curve model of the Yerkes-Dodson law: drag on the arousal x… Order Effects & Counterbalancing Lab (2D)New📱Interactive 2D within-subjects experiment simulator: watch a fixed testing order confound…
Morphological Typology Space (2D)New📱Build a word morpheme by morpheme -- agglutinative, fusional or isolating -- on an… Two-Factor Theory of Emotion Lab (2D)New📱A 2D circumplex simulator of Schachter & Singer's two-factor theory of emotion: a… Misinformation Effect: How False Memories Get Implanted (2D)New📱Interactive 2D model of the eyewitness misinformation effect: watch a memory trace of 24… Quantifier Truth-Value Model Checker (2D)New📱Build a quantified sentence (forall x, exists x, not-exists x) over a predicate and watch it… Ocular Dominance Stripe Formation (2D)New📱A 2D companion to the ocular-dominance critical-period model: a Mexican-hat lateral… Drift-Diffusion Decision Model (2D)New📱A 2D companion to the 3D drift-diffusion racer model: instead of sampling individual noisy… The Attentional Blink (2D Gate-Curve View)New📱A 2D-native RSVP attentional-blink simulator: a live plotted gate(t) probability curve, a… Serial Position Effect: Buffer Timeline & Recall CurveNew📱An interactive 2D simulation of the serial position effect: a scrolling buffer-occupancy… Exercise-Induced Neurogenesis: Age-Cohort ModelNew📱Set aerobic workout intensity, session length and weekly frequency and watch a live BDNF… Visual Working Memory: Change Detection & ROC Phase PlaneNew📱Run the classic change-detection working-memory task in 2D: a scattered colored array, a… Stroop Effect: LCA Phase-Space Race (2D)New📱A 2D phase-plane model of the Stroop effect's Leaky Competing Accumulator race: watch the… Reliable Change Index: Distributions & Significance TestNew📱A 2D simulator of the Jacobson-Truax Reliable Change Index: analytic probability-density… Binocular Rivalry: Phase-Plane & Flow-Field View (2D)New📱2D phase-plane rendering of the same reciprocal-inhibition rate model behind binocular… The A-not-B Error: Object Permanence and Infant Working MemoryNew📱Model Piaget's classic A-not-B error as a race between a decaying working-memory trace for… Eyewitness Identification: A Signal Detection Theory LabNew📱A 3D signal-detection-theory model of eyewitness lineup identification: tune memory strength… Stages of Change: Health Behavior SimulatorNew📱Watch a 3D population of 180 people move through Prochaska's five stages of health-behavior… Problem Space Search: Hill Climbing vs Simulated AnnealingNew📱Watch an agent search a randomly generated Gaussian-peak landscape with hill climbing,… Synaptic Pruning: Use It or Lose ItNew📱An interactive 3D model of childhood brain wiring: watch a neural network overproduce… Theory of Mind: The False-Belief TaskNew📱An interactive 3D Sally-Anne false-belief task: watch two agents track (or fail to track)… Broaden-and-Build: Upward & Downward Emotional SpiralsNew📱An interactive 3D model of Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory: tune the positivity… Binocular Rivalry: Competing Neural PopulationsNew📱An interactive 3D model of binocular rivalry: two mutually-inhibiting neural populations,… Interleaved vs. Blocked Practice: The Contextual Interference EffectNew📱An interactive model of the contextual-interference effect from educational psychology:… Serial Position Effect: Primacy & Recency LabNew📱Study a word list at your own pace, add a retention delay before recall, and watch the… Reaction Time & Hick's Law LabNew📱Take a real timed reaction test, then simulate thousands of trials to see how the… Asch Conformity ExperimentNew📱Run Solomon Asch's classic line-judgment experiment in 3D: adjust group size, task… Pareidolia in 3D Terrain: The "Face on Mars" EffectNew📱Full 3D terrain simulation of pareidolia — rotate the light angle over procedurally… Pareidolia: Faces in the StaticNew📱Interactive 2D simulation of visual pareidolia — tune noise and threshold to reveal… The Uncanny Valley: 3D Face MorphNew📱Orbit a real 3D procedural head mesh and drag a human-likeness slider to morph it from… The Uncanny Valley: Human-Likeness CurveNew📱Interactive simulation of Masahiro Mori's uncanny valley: morph a face from cartoon to… Reliable Change Index: Is Treatment Progress Real?New📱An interactive 3D simulator of the Jacobson-Truax Reliable Change Index: compare a client's… Serial Position Effect: Primacy & Recency Memory BufferNew📱An interactive 3D simulation of the serial position effect: a limited-capacity rehearsal… Synaptic Pruning: Use It or Lose ItNew📱An interactive 3D model of childhood brain wiring: watch a neural network overproduce… Exercise-Induced Hippocampal NeurogenesisNew📱Set aerobic workout intensity, session length and weekly frequency and watch BDNF-driven… Visual Working Memory Capacity LabNew📱Run the classic change-detection working-memory task: study a colored array, hold it across… The Attentional BlinkNew📱An interactive RSVP simulator of the attentional blink: set the lag between two rapid-stream… Serial Position Effect: Primacy & Recency LabNew📱Study a word list at your own pace, add a retention delay before recall, and watch the… Stroop Effect: A Leaky Competing Accumulator Race ModelNew📱A 3D race-to-threshold model of the Stroop effect: a color-naming accumulator and a… Binocular Rivalry: Mutual-Inhibition Model of Perceptual BistabilityNew📱A live reciprocal-inhibition neural rate model of binocular rivalry: two competing neuron… Binocular Rivalry: Competing Neural PopulationsNew📱An interactive 3D model of binocular rivalry: two mutually-inhibiting neural populations,… The A-not-B Error: Object Permanence and Infant Working MemoryNew📱Model Piaget's classic A-not-B error as a race between a decaying working-memory trace for… Interleaved vs. Blocked Practice: The Contextual Interference EffectNew📱An interactive model of the contextual-interference effect from educational psychology:… Order Effects & Counterbalancing LabNew📱An interactive within-subjects experiment simulator: watch a fixed testing order confound… Eyewitness Identification: A Signal Detection Theory LabNew📱A 3D signal-detection-theory model of eyewitness lineup identification: tune memory strength… Stages of Change: Health Behavior SimulatorNew📱Watch a 3D population of 180 people move through Prochaska's five stages of health-behavior… Personnel Selection Utility AnalysisNew📱Adjust a hiring test's validity, selection ratio, and the dollar value of job performance on… Statistical Speech Segmentation LabNew📱Streams a continuous artificial language of nonsense syllables and runs a live statistical… Misinformation Effect: How False Memories Get ImplantedNew📱Interactive 3D model of the eyewitness misinformation effect: watch a memory trace decay… Morphological Typology SpaceNew📱Build a word morpheme by morpheme -- agglutinative, fusional or isolating -- and watch a… Ocular Dominance Plasticity: The Visual Cortex Critical PeriodNew📱A 3D grid of 484 cortical columns competes for ocular territory under a normalized Hebbian… Face-Space Coding & Prosopagnosia SimulatorNew📱A 3D norm-based face-space model where a population of fusiform-like tuned units decodes… Eysenck's PEN Model: 3D Personality SpaceNew📱Move through Hans Eysenck's three-dimensional Psychoticism-Extraversion-Neuroticism trait… Broaden-and-Build: Upward & Downward Emotional SpiralsNew📱An interactive 3D model of Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory: tune the positivity… Problem Space Search: Hill Climbing vs Simulated AnnealingNew📱Watch an agent search a randomly generated Gaussian-peak landscape with hill climbing,… Drift-Diffusion Decision ModelNew📱Watch 40 parallel noisy evidence accumulators race toward a choice boundary in this… Two-Factor Theory of Emotion LabNew📱Interactive 3D simulator of Schachter & Singer's two-factor theory of emotion: drive… Vigilance Decrement: A Signal-Detection Radar WatchNew📱Watch a 3D radar console over a simulated shift and see hit rate, false-alarm rate,… Reaction Time & Hick's Law LabNew📱Take a real timed reaction test, then simulate thousands of trials to see how the… Flow Channel: Skill vs. Challenge in Self-Directed LearningNew📱A 3D landscape of every challenge/skill combination shows the Csikszentmihalyi flow channel… Quantifier Truth-Value Model CheckerNew📱Build a quantified sentence (∀x, ∃x, ¬∃x) over a predicate and watch it evaluated live… Theory of Mind: The False-Belief TaskNew📱An interactive 3D Sally-Anne false-belief task: watch two agents track (or fail to track)… Asch Conformity ExperimentNew📱Run Solomon Asch's classic line-judgment experiment in 3D: adjust group size, task… Arousal–Performance Curve: The Yerkes-Dodson LawNew📱An interactive 3D model of the Yerkes-Dodson law: watch an athlete's performance rise and… Predictive Coding: A Free-Energy Model of an Adaptive MindNew📱A real three-layer hierarchical predictive-coding network that minimises variational free… Invasive vs Non-Invasive Brain-Computer InterfacesNew📱Interactive 3D simulation comparing EEG, ECoG and intracortical (Utah array /… Decision Tree Under UncertaintyNew📱Interactive 3D decision tree pitting a rational expected-utility agent against a… Emotional Intelligence: Amygdala, Regulation & ConflictNew📱Interactive simulation of the emotional-regulation loop in a two-person conflict: a trigger… Evolution of Cooperation: Spatial Prisoner's DilemmaNew📱Interactive 3D simulation of evolutionary psychology's core question: a grid population of… Developmental Growth Tree SimulatorNew📱Interactive 3D model of cognitive development across Piaget's stages: tune stimulation and… Mindful Breathing SimulatorNew📱Interactive 3D model of mindful breathing: pace your breath near the physiological resonance… Global Workspace Consciousness SimulatorNew📱Interactive 3D network of neural modules that models Global Workspace Theory and a… Creative Problem Solving SimulatorNew📱Interactive brainstorming simulator: watch a mind-map of ideas branch outward from a central… Creative Mind Network SimulatorNew📱Watch idea-particles flow from the brain's Default Mode Network through the Salience Network… Cross-Cultural Psychology SimulatorNew📱Watch a host-culture group and a migrating group cluster, spread and blend as you tune… Emotion Regulation SimulatorNew📱Interactive 3D model of top-down (prefrontal cortex) versus bottom-up emotion regulation:… Counseling Psychology SimulatorNew📱Interactive counseling-psychology simulator: watch a client orb climb a five-stage helix of… Confirmation Bias: Asymmetric Belief UpdatingNew📱Two Bayesian agents read the same ambiguous evidence stream: a rational updater weighs every… Confirmation Bias: Asymmetric Belief UpdatingNewTwo Bayesian agents read the same ambiguous evidence stream: a rational updater weighs every… Confidence Calibration LabNew📱Rate your confidence before answering a series of quick questions, then watch a reliability… Pragmatics: Implicature LabNew📱Interactive Gricean-maxims demo: pick speaker B's reply to a conversational prompt across… Garden-Path Sentence Parser: Live Reanalysis in Sentence ProcessingNew📱Reveals classic garden-path sentences word by word, builds the incremental parser's… Sleep & Memory Consolidation: Hypnogram SimulatorNew📱A 2D hypnogram traces sleep stages (N1-N3, REM) across a realistic ~90-minute cycle… Syntax Tree Builder: Constituency Parsing & Structural AmbiguityNew📱Pick a preset English or Ukrainian sentence and watch a phrase-structure (constituency)… Embodied Cognition: Sensorimotor Shape ExplorationNew📱A jointed arm sweeps around a hidden object and can only sense it by touch, building an… How Bees Think: Learning, Memory and NavigationNew📱Explore the fascinating world of bee cognition with this simulation. Manipulate variables to… Brain Aging & Cognition SimulatorNew📱Interactive 3D neuron network showing normal cognitive aging vs an Alzheimer's trajectory.… Artificial Consciousness: Integrated Information NetworkNew📱Watch a network of neural modules fire, synchronize and integrate. Tune inter-module… AGI Scaling Laws & Emergent Capabilities SimulatorNew📱Scale a neural network from GPT-1-era compute to speculative AGI-level training budgets.… Attention Spotlight & Visual SearchNew📱Interactive model of Posner's spotlight of attention and Treisman's Feature Integration… Neural Learning Network SimulatorNew📱A biological-style neuron network strengthens the synapses it uses most — watch repeated… Cognitive Learning Model ComparatorNew📱Watch three competing learning-curve models — associative, reinforcement, and… Cognitive Processing PipelineNew📱Perception, working memory and decision-making stages form a processing network — watch… Cognitive Restructuring LoopNew📱A thought-emotion-behaviour loop network shows how a triggering thought cascades — then… Cognitive Wellness Workspace ModelNew📱Light, noise, breaks and clutter all feed into a focus network — tune the physical workspace… Integrated Information NetworkNew📱A densely wired node network computes a live integration score — watch how connectivity and… Global Workspace Broadcast NetworkNew📱Many specialist processing nodes compete for access to one global broadcast hub — watch… Claim-Evidence Reasoning NetworkNew📱Claims connect to supporting or conflicting evidence nodes — watch how evidence quality and… Idea Association NetworkNew📱Concept nodes connect through associative links — raise divergent-thinking strength and… Behavior Modification & Learning SimulationNew📱This simulation allows players to explore the core concepts of behavioral psychology,… Cloud Security Operations Center SimulationNew📱This simulation allows you to manage and optimize cloud security protocols, adjusting… Cognitive Processes in Educational LearningNew📱This simulation explores how cognitive processes like memory consolidation, attention… Cognitive Learning in Educational SystemsNew📱This simulation explores how cognitive models – such as working memory, attention, and… Legal Psychology SimulatorNew📱This simulation delves into the fascinating intersection of psychology and law, illustrating… Focus Network Resonance Map — Node Disruption and Re-Coherence DynamicsNew📱This advanced simulator allows users to explore complex concepts within transpersonal… Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Mindset SimulationNew📱This simulation explores the psychological aspects of entrepreneurship, focusing on traits… Organizational Leadership SimulationNew📱Observe leadership behaviors and their effects on worker satisfaction and overall workplace… Organizational Psychology SimulatorNew📱This simulation examines workplace behavior and leadership strategies in organizational… Learning Progress SimulationNew📱This simulation allows users to explore the complex dynamics of learning progress by… Psychology Advanced Attention Mechanisms SimulationNew📱This simulation explores the cognitive processes involved in attention – specifically, how… Psychology Research PlatformNew📱This simulation provides a platform for exploring psychological research concepts, such as… The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why Low Skill Can Hide Its Own ExistenceNew📱Explore the Dunning-Kruger effect, the 1999 finding that people with low competence in a… Cognitive Load Theory: The Limits of Working Memory in LearningNew📱Explore Cognitive Load Theory, John Sweller's account of how the severe capacity limits of…
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Cognitive Science

How minds perceive, decide and misjudge — perception, gestalt grouping, collective decision-making and cognitive bias.

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