Thread by @neuranne

Did you know that the higher your interest in neuroscience, the more likely you are to believe in neuromyths? 🤔

This month I'll try to dispel one neuromyth each day for the next 30 days 🧠 ⚡

01. You're not "right-brained" or "left-brained", you're whole-brained.

#NeuroMarch

Neuromyth: right-brained = creative; left-brained = analytical.

Reality 👇

02. Listening to classical music doesn't make kids smarter. Yes, the Mozart Effect shows a small improvement in spatial reasoning skills after listening to Mozart

But it only lasts for ~12 min & even the research team behind the original study got annoyed about that neuromyth 😅

03. You don't have a "learning style", e.g. learning better with visual, auditory, textual format etc.

You may have a learning *preference* but easier ≠ better. Students matched with their learning preference don't learn better 👇

04. A common neuromyth is the "myth of three", a "critical period" between age 0–3 determining the future trajectory of a child's cognitive maturation 😨📈📉

Sure, early education is often better, but we have many "sensitive periods" rather than one unique "critical period"!

05. It's the weekend so forgive me for the lazy one but... No, you don't only use 10% of your brain capacity, and any course claiming to help you "unlock your untapped brain potential" is just going to help you empty your wallet 🤷🏽‍♀️

06. The graph below is cute, but the theory of "Multiple Intelligences" invented by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner is nonsense 🙄

There's no musical, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. There's just general intelligence.

07. This is one I was fascinated with as a kid, but it turns out it's not true. No, it's not a common sign of dyslexia to see letters backwards 🔙

Instead, look for difficulty reading (including reading aloud) & writing, mispronouncing words, and/or problems retrieving words 👇🏽