Do “brain-training” programs work?

DJ Simons, WR Boot, N Charness… - … science in the …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2014, two groups of scientists published open letters on the efficacy of brain-training
interventions, or “brain games,” for improving cognition. The first letter, a consensus …

Recommendations for sex/gender neuroimaging research: key principles and implications for research design, analysis, and interpretation

G Rippon, R Jordan-Young, A Kaiser… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Neuroimaging (NI) technologies are having increasing impact in the study of complex
cognitive and social processes. In this emerging field of social cognitive neuroscience, a …

Perceived truth of statements and simulated social media postings: An experimental investigation of source credibility, repeated exposure, and presentation format

L Nadarevic, R Reber, AJ Helmecke, D Köse - … Research: Principles and …, 2020 - Springer
To better understand the spread of fake news in the Internet age, it is important to uncover
the variables that influence the perceived truth of information. Although previous research …

Multisensory packaging design: Color, shape, texture, sound, and smell

C Spence - Integrating the packaging and product experience in …, 2016 - Elsevier
The visual aspects of packaging design (think here of color and form, or image mold) are
critical to the success or failure of many of the products on the supermarket shelf. While a …

Your understanding is my understanding: Evidence for a community of knowledge

SA Sloman, N Rabb - Psychological science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In four experiments, we tested the community-of-knowledge hypothesis, that people fail to
distinguish their own knowledge from other people's knowledge. In all the experiments …

Brain knowledge and the prevalence of neuromyths among prospective teachers in Greece

M Papadatou-Pastou, E Haliou, F Vlachos - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Although very often teachers show a great interest in introducing findings from the field of
neuroscience in their classrooms, there is growing concern about the lack of academic …

Deconstructing the seductive allure of neuroscience explanations

DS Weisberg, JCV Taylor, EJ Hopkins - Judgment and Decision …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Previous work showed that people find explanations more satisfying when they contain
irrelevant neuroscience information. The current studies investigate why this effect happens …

Neuroscience-inspired design: From academic neuromarketing to commercially relevant research

C Spence - Organizational Research Methods, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Companies and organizations the world over wish to understand, predict, and ultimately
change the behavior of those whom they interact with, advise, or else provide services for …

Superfluous neuroscience information makes explanations of psychological phenomena more appealing

D Fernandez-Duque, J Evans, C Christian… - Journal of cognitive …, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
Does the presence of irrelevant neuroscience information make explanations of
psychological phenomena more appealing? Do fMRI pictures further increase that allure …

The seductive allure is a reductive allure: People prefer scientific explanations that contain logically irrelevant reductive information

EJ Hopkins, DS Weisberg, JCV Taylor - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
Previous work has found that people feel significantly more satisfied with explanations of
psychological phenomena when those explanations contain neuroscience information …