Are you right-brained or left-brained? What is your learning style? Do you use only ten percent of your brain? You may have heard questions like these before. But how do these and other popular education ideas measure up against learning science research? Here, a learning scientist explores five common neuromyths in education, how they may actually detract from learning, and what the research reveals instead.

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