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Raquel Balmaseda Serrano, Aarón Fernández del Olmo, Gregorio Segovia Camargo, Miguel Cruz Cortés
, Francisco Mora Teruel
The important advance in neuroscience in recent years has generated a lot of knowledge about the brain and its functioning. Many times this knowledge has been misunderstood, causing the appearance of erroneous ideas that are known as neuromyths. The present study considers whether specific training in psychology can help reduce belief in these neuromyths. Two studies are carried out. In the first study, a bibliometric analysis is carried out with the VosWiever tool to know the different lines of research in the field of neuromyths. In the second study, a questionnaire with 32 statements, among which are several common neuromyths, is administered to 239 people, 104 without training in psychology and 135 with training in psychology, requesting that they indicate which of these statements are true or false. In the first study, 5 clusters are located that exemplify the different lines of current research in the field of neuromyths, among which are myths related to the brain (cluster 1), aspects related to education (clusters 3 and 5). and other more general ones about false beliefs (clusters 2 and 4). In the second study, it was detected that people with training in psychology are able to more easily identify sentences that correspond to neuromyths. However, there are several neuromyths that persist despite training in psychology. Our study shows that there are several specific lines of research into neuromyths related to the study of the brain and its application to the educational field. Furthermore, he points out that training in psychology can be useful in reducing belief in neuromyths, although it cannot eliminate all false beliefs. The need to delve into neuroscientific concepts within psychology is debated as a possible tool to eliminate these erroneous beliefs.
