What do cows drink? The correct answer is water, but many are tempted to say milk. The
disposition to override an intuitive response (milk) with a more analytic response (water) is …

The aim of this study was to investigate differences in student teachers' and experienced
teachers' professional vision in natural settings and to elicit clues of the relation of in-the …

People who hold scientific explanations for natural phenomena also hold folk explanations,
and the two types of explanations compete under some circumstances. Here, we explore the …

Evidence from cognitive neuroscience suggests that learning counterintuitive concepts in
mathematics and science requires inhibitory control (IC). This prevents interference from …

Acquiring the counterintuitive logic of how the mechanism of natural selection (NS) leads to
the evolution of new species (speciation) represents a paradigm case of conceptual change …

The goal of the present set of experiments was to identify the conditions under which
readers evoked prepotent-response inhibition to prevent interference from reactivated …

Extensive research has been conducted on the misconceptions related to photosynthesis
and respiration. However, most of these studies have failed to consider the heterogeneity of …

Higher education institutions are responsible for preparing and equipping undergraduate
students with the skills required by the labor market, such as critical thinking. However …

The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is a widely used measure of adults' propensity to
engage in reflective analytic thought. The CRT is strongly predictive of many diverse …

The persistent educational challenges that fractions pose call for developing novel
instructional methods to better prepare students for fraction learning. Here, we examined the …