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Another overview looking at neuromyths in education and why they persist

Excellent blog for Bad Science ELT! Greta on learning styles, NLP, etc

Jeremy's enthusiastic 'reading' of cognitive research that suggests extensive reading for pleasure and intensive reading for study are physiologically different processes. He posits that extensive reading points to 'acquisition' rather than more conscious 'learning'

The Age Myth about L2 learning gets another bashing. Turns out the original experiments that helped establish the notion of a critical period for eyesight may be short-sighted! Patrick Kanold, from the University of Maryland: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/02/05/272092118/seeing-less-helps-the-brain-hear-more

Researchers found that the 100 billion neurons figure is yet another neuromyth (but not far off)

Dopamine and gaming. Also a video from Judy Willis.

Phillip Kerr on MI

Article about the internalisation of "external", out-loud speech

Yeah! What she says! This article published Jan 2014 just about sums it up