How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
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How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
As its goal is to take neuroscience out of the lab and into the real world, applied neuroscience draws knowledge from many areas of science, from psychology to molecular biology.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • An introduction to applied neuroscience
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“Three Problems in the Marriage of Neuroscience and Education,” Cortex 45 (2009): 544–545; and Larry Cuban, “Brain-Based Education—Run from It,” Washington Post, February 28, 2011,
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
In December 2011, Professor John Stein, a leading Oxford neuroscientist, wrote, “Claims are being made about brain research that just aren’t true, and they are being accepted
Malcolm Jeeves • Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience
“The only thing different about neuroscience,” according to Morse, “is that we have prettier pictures and it appears more scientific.”
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Applied neuroscience explores the applications of neuroscience in real-world settings. Where most of the work in other neuroscientific branches is done in an academic setting, applied neuroscience is used by practitioners — professionals who work in clinics, hospitals, labs, schools, and companies — as a way to support their core discipline.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • An introduction to applied neuroscience
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But Homo sapiens’ dependency on social communication and education is as much of a curse as it is a gift. On the flip side of the coin, it is education’s fault that religious myths and fake news propagate so easily in human societies. From the earliest age, our brains trustfully absorb the tales we are told, whether they are true or false. In a soc... See more
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine …
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Collective neuroscience offers a different way of seeing neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression and schizophrenia, for example – not as instances of individual ‘dysfunctions’ in the brain, but as phenomena that emerge from multiple dynamic physiological and social processes. How does one get to the bottom of human cognition if we are intrin... See more
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
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