Helping bridge neuroscience and education: 30+ experts debunk the theory of fixed, rigid “learning styles”

No evi­dence to back idea of learn­ing styles (OpEd in The Guardian co-authored by 30+ neu­ro­sci­en­tists and psy­chol­o­gists): “There is wide­spread inter­est among teach­ers in the use of neu­ro­sci­en­tif­ic research find­ings in edu­ca­tion­al prac­tice. How­ev­er, there are also mis­con­cep­tions and myths that are sup­pos­ed­ly based on sound neu­ro­science that are preva­lent in our schools. We…

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Update: Ten Common Myths About Brain Health, Debunked

—– Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter, full of stim­u­lat­ing arti­cles and teasers. Hap­py Read­ing :-) New think­ing: Let’s debunk ten brain myths that remain sur­pris­ing­ly pop­u­lar DARPA launch­es Tar­get­ed Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty Train­ing pro­gram to accel­er­ate cog­ni­tive skills train­ing Under new CEO, Lumos­i­ty to expand brain train­ing plat­form with focus on applied skills and broad­er social, wellness…

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Let’s debunk these ten brain and brain health myths

. In hon­or of Brain Aware­ness Week 2016, let’s debunk ten myths about the brain and brain health that remain sur­pris­ing­ly pop­u­lar. Top 10 brain and brain health myths, debunked: Myth 1. Genes deter­mine the fate of our brains. Fact: Life­long brain plas­tic­ity means that our lifestyles and behav­iors play a sig­nif­i­cant role in how our brains…

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Debunking popular brain myths

Three Myths About the Brain (The New York Times): “Myths about the brain typ­i­cal­ly arise in this fash­ion: An intrigu­ing exper­i­men­tal result gen­er­ates a plau­si­ble if spec­u­la­tive interpretation…that is lat­er overex­tend­ed or dis­tort­ed (we use only 10% of our brain). The car­i­ca­ture ulti­mate­ly infil­trates pop cul­ture and takes on a life of its own, quite inde­pen­dent from…

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Debunking 10 Brain Fitness and Brain Health Myths during Brain Awareness Week

In hon­or of Brain Aware­ness Week, let’s debunk ten myths about brain fit­ness and brain health that remain sur­pris­ing­ly pop­u­lar. Top 10 brain fit­ness and brain health myths, debunked: Myth 1. Genes deter­mine the fate of our brains. Fact: Life­long brain plas­tic­ity means that our lifestyles and behav­iors play a sig­nif­i­cant role in how our brains (and therefore…

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Do you believe these neuromyths? Do we only use 10% of our brain?

Cour­tesy of the recent study Neu­romyths in edu­ca­tion: Preva­lence and pre­dic­tors of mis­con­cep­tions among teach­ers, by Sanne Dekker et al, here you have 32 brain-relat­ed state­ments. Are they cor­rect or incor­rect? We use our brains 24 h a day (C ). Chil­dren must acquire their native lan­guage before a sec­ond lan­guage is learned. If they do…

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