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Interessante Studie zur #Lernforschung / #Lerntheorie

"Der Transfer von neurowissenschaftlichen Befunden in die schulische Praxis wurde begleitet von der Entstehung von Fehlkonzepten über das menschliche Gehirn, sogenannte #Neuromythen."

Neuromythen sind zu Beginn des Lehramtsstudiums prävalent und unabhängig vom Wissen über das menschliche Gehirn. Z f Bildungsforsch 9, 221–246 (2019). doi.org/10.1007/s35834-019-002

SpringerLinkNeuromythen sind zu Beginn des Lehramtsstudiums prävalent und unabhängig vom Wissen über das menschliche Gehirn - Zeitschrift für BildungsforschungTransferring neuroscientific insights into education has created misconceptions of the human brain, i. e. neuromyths. Studies suggest that neuromyths are widely spread among teachers world-wide. However, it is unclear whether neuromyths already exist at the beginning of teacher education and whether they have a similar prevalence in Austria compared to other countries. The aim of the present study is to address these questions. In addition, this study aims to scrutinize the relationship between knowledge about the human brain and believing in neuromyths. 582 Austrian teacher education students responded to 40 statements of the human brain. Of these 40 statements, 20 were neuromyths and 20 were correct statements about the brain, i. e. neurofacts. Results showed that some neuromyths have a high prevalence already at the beginning of teacher education. Similar to previous findings in other countries, the most widely believed neuromyths were related to learning styles and to a disjoint functioning of the brain hemispheres. Furthermore, neuromyths did not form a unidimensional factor, as assumed—but not tested—by prior studies. Finally, results suggest that the knowledge about the human brain was not related to believing in neuromyths. To summarize, neuromyths are already prevalent at the beginning of teacher education. Teacher education should therefore take care to dispel these neuromyths by addressing neuromyths directly instead of only fostering general knowledge about the human brain. This holds particularly true for those neuromyths that could be potentially harmful when implemented in educational practices.
#Lerntypen#Didaktik#neuroscience
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Michael Ditsch

- Crows recognize geometric regularity - "The crows exhibited a geometric regularity effect, showing better performance with shapes featuring right angles, parallel lines, or symmetry over more irregular shapes. This performance advantage did not require learning. Our findings suggest that geometric intuitions are not specific to humans but are deeply rooted in biological evolution." - Philipp Schmidbauer et al., Crows recognize geometric regularity.Sci. Adv.11,eadt3718(2025).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adt3718 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt3718

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Luís de Araújo

Hey #neuroscience people, I am working on a Nature Medicine submission and wanted a graphic displaying the relationship between locus coeruleus tau and amyloid pathology and memory. Where can I find free assets that I could use? Also, what software you recommend for that?

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ned haughton

I don't use LLMs for anything meaningful (I have tried them, just to help understand how they work). I think the reason is something like this:

1. In would be really keen on a computer <-> brain interface. The possibilities are fascinating.

2. But only if it was:
- open source,
- understandable (not black-box), and
- not corporate-controlled.
So neuralink is a fuck no. I think the visceral discomfort with and repulsiveness of the idea of someone like Elon Musk having direct access to your brainstem should be obvious to anyone half-sane.

3. LLMs are not quite the same thing, but they are definitely in some kind of uncanny-valley of similarity. The link is linguistic, and not electrical, but that's just one level of abstraction away. And they fail all three criteria in point 2 (at least all of the commercial ones do, I don't have the energy or impetus to set up my own, I'd rather just do the learning myself).

#LLM#GenAI#AI
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