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EXPERIMENTS & DEMONSTRATIONS: Some of these experiments can be run right over the web through your browser. Others you need to download or to obtain a plugin for your browser before running the experiment. In general, if you need something to run the experiments or demonstrations, I've indicated so after the link description.
  Mental Rotation Experiment at Hanover College
  ePsych: Website for Java-based online experiments and demonstrations that you can explore. Developed by Gary Bradshaw
  CogLab: Commerical website for online experiments that you must have purchased license to run. You will need your registration number to use.
  PsychExps: Experiments that you can run over the web and view your results (requires Authorware Plug-in to be installed on your browser).
  Psych/Lab: The Psych/Lab (TM) software includes programs that can run classic experiments from Human Cognitive/Experimental Psychology. These programs allow limited control over the experiment parameters, provide raw trial data in text files, and include analysis programs to compute condition means. This software is free and in the public domain.
  University of Illinois's IPL Laboratory: Java-based experiments in Cognitive Psychology.
  University of Indiana: Mac-only experiments (Download).
 

The McGurk Effect. Online demonstration of how speech perception is heavily influenced by visual as well as auditory input in sorting out what speech sound is uttered (e.g. /ba/ versus /da/). Quicktime required.

 

The Stroop Effect. An effective online demonstration of the Stroop effect.

  Missionaries and Cannibals Problem. An online version of this classic puzzle used to study problem solving processes. (Thanks to Chris Dibartolo for this link)
 

Tower of Hanoi. An online version of the classic puzzle used to study problem solving processes. Another version of the Tower of Hanoi (with colored rings) ,

Visual Illusions
  Filling-in Illusions
  Motion-Induced Blindness
  69 Visual Illusions and Optical Phenomena--Michael Bach's Excellent Site
  Links from Rice University
PAPERS-TUTORIALS
  The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Classic paper by George Miller on processing limits.
  Creating False Memories. Article by leading memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus.
  William James. Site devoted to one of our most famous American Psychologists. Online copies of many of his papers and books.
  The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources
  Elizabeth Loftus Website of a well-known memory researcher who has published extensively on memory, in particular on repressed memories and false memories. A number of her articles posted online here.
  ACT Web. John Anderson's ACT research group. The ACT-R unified theory of cognition attempts to develop a cognitive architecture that can perform in detail a full range of cognitive tasks. The theory is implemented as a computer simulation that can perfor and learn from the same tasks worked on by human subjects in the lab.
DICTIONARIES & GUIDES
  Cognitve Science Dictionary. U of Alberta's Cognitive Science dictionary can be browsed or used to look up a specific term.
  Language Dictionaries. Online dictionaries for any language you could possibly need.
  Visionary. Dictionary for the study of vision.
  Whole Brain Atlas. Need to identify a brain structure--it's here.
   
COGNITIVE RESOURCE LISTS:
  Cognitive and Psychological Sciences on the Internet. Probably the largest list of cognitive psychology and cognitve science resources on the web.
  Internet Resources for Psychology: Cognitive and Experimental Psychology. Links to a number of cognitive demos, simulations, tutorials, experiments, software, etc.
COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHOLOGY RESOURCES: Lists that list resources of every type imaginable that might interest psychology students or teachers.
  PsychWeb. Still one of the best general resource lists.
   
STUDY AIDS
  APA Style Resources. Links to APA style guides and help sheets.
  Study & Test-Taking Skills Links. Various sites with study skills and test taking strategies information.