Laboratory in Cognition & Perception

Laboratory in Cognition and Perception v3 can form the core of a modern psychology laboratory course. The 20 paradigms enable replicating important experiments and to modify them in 100's of ways without programming for individual research projects.

The experiments were selected to be useful in courses in cognition, sensory processes, perception, and general research methods courses, demonstrating cognitive, sensory, and perceptual phenomenon.

The software provides a specially-tuned "intelligent" spreadsheet program that recognizes where the independent and dependent variables are located, enabling students merely to point and click to aggregate their data and to generate professional-quality graphs - all without the need to learn how to use spreadsheet functions. In addition, students are provided with a copy of Manuscript Mentor, an intelligent word processor that guides them through the processes involved in generating APA-style research reports.

The programs are based on these paradigms:

Abstracting Linguistic Information

Attention

Automatic Processes

Categorization

Classical Psychophysics

False Memories

Feature Detection

Ill-Defined Problems

Implicit & Explicit Memory

Individual Differences in Spans

Mental Models

Mental Rotation

Metamemory & the Misinformation Effect

PDP Modeling

Perceptual Aftereffects

Procedural Learning

Reasoning

Retrieval from Working Memory

Tip of the Tongue

Well-defined Problems

The software provides an intelligent spreadsheet program that recognizes where the independent and dependent variables are located, enabling students merely to point and click to aggregate their data and to generate professional-quality graphs without the need to learn how to use spreadsheet functions. In addition, students are provided with a copy of an intelligent word processor that guides them through the processes involved in generating APA-style reports of their research.