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Psychophysical Distinctions:  Investigating “Just Noticeable Differences”

A "Just Noticeable Difference," or JND, is the smallest detectable difference between a starting and secondary level of a particular sensory stimulus--in other words, the difference between a one doll ...

Are Two Ears Better than One? Binaural vs. Monaural Sound Localization

Humans use both "monaural" (one ear) information and "binaural" (two ear) information in order to locate (or "localize"), people, animals, and noisey things. In this experiment, blindfolded subjects w ...

Seeing Straight and Responding Quickly: Peripheral vs. Central Vision

Discover how quickly our fingers respond to what our eyes se. Learn the anatomical and physiological differences between central and peripheral visual systems. Learn about the functions of the photo ...

How Do Breathing Exercises Affect Pulse Rate and Blood Pressure

Discover how deep, rhythmic breathing on autonomic nervous system. Learn about the anatomy of the autonomic nervous system and its relationship to the rest of the body, especially the relationship of ...

The Smallest Touch: Exploring Thresholds of Sensitivity

In this project you will discover the smallest, lightest touch we can detect, learn about tactile receptors, tactile discrimination, and receptive fields, and learn about the peripheral and central ne ...

Tactile Discrimination:  Exploring Receptive Fields

In this experiment, we'll discover how and why certain parts of our bodies are more sensitive than others, and we'll learn about the receptive field, the part of a sensory neuron that feels for us.It ...

Can We Stretch the Body by Stretching the Mind?

Discover how mental visualization helps our bodies to acheive physical feats like stretching.It is an educational content by education.com.By clicking on the title of this resource, you will be redire ...

Born to Rebel: Birth Order and Personality

In this study, you will ask students to anonymously complete an on-line Big Five personality test, and also to provide you with information about the number and birth order of children in their family ...

Pay Attention! A Parametric Study of the Stroop Effect

How easily distracted are we? In this study, you will have subjects read aloud three different sets of words that describe numbers; for one set, the word will be written in the same color ink as the w ...

What are Stereotypes? How Do They Help or Hurt People?

In this project you will explore the scientific literature on stereotypes, "good" and "bad," as well as the known consequences, positive and negative, of stereotypes. In addition, you will learn about ...

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