added by Anne-Laure Le Cunff · updated 2y ago
An introduction to applied neuroscience
- Recent years have seen a huge growth in the public awareness of neuroscience. People have become more interested in new findings about the brain, and also find brain-based explanations quite compelling. This public interest has led enterprising individuals to try to apply neuroscientific ideas to more everyday situations.
from How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education by Matt Wall
Anne-Laure Le Cunff added
- Educational neuroscience is a thriving field of research, and there are many excellent and doubtless well-meaning researchers doing rigorous and valuable work in the area. Unfortunately, there are also businesses that want to exploit teachers’ lack of experience and middle-class parental anxieties about school attainment.
from How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education by Matt Wall
Anne-Laure Le Cunff added
Neuroscience, neuroanatomy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology are some of the most directly relevant fields to choose from; however, trying to summarize their findings would result in an account similar to the descriptions the blind men gave of the elephant: each different, and each unrelated to the other
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