A researcher who studied endorsement of neuromyths among people with differing educational and neuroscience backgrounds. A survey compared beliefs in popular misconceptions with general brain knowledge. The design identifies patterns of association; group differences alone do not establish that training caused a particular individual to abandon a misconception.[ref]
Dispelling the myth: training in education or neuroscience decreases but does not eliminate beliefs in neuromyths by Kelly Macdonald and others. 2017, participant groups, survey and association analyses
A psychology researcher who, with Helen Tager-Flusberg, experimentally investigated the relationship between language and theory of mind. Children received complement-syntax, false belief or relative-clause training. Comparing subsequent performance across conditions tested transfer between skills rather than relying only on their developmental correlation.[ref]
The influence of language on theory of mind by Courtney Melinda Hale and Helen Tager-Flusberg. 2003, randomized training and transfer outcomes
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