Casual Audio Papers 6: The Practical and Principled problems with Educational Neuroscience

Casual Audio Papers 6: The Practical and Principled problems with Educational Neuroscience. By J. Bower

Casual Audio Papers is partly for personal use. I want relisten to them while I work to improve my knowledge base, but it is also for anybody else who is interested in Psychology and Neuroscience who doesn't have a lot of time. I noticed while I work I often want to listen to something educational, but I mostly have to listen to audiobooks or lectures, but never get any cold, hard papers. And there is a big difference. So here it is.

Xeilias Canani is studying Psychology towards a Masters, and will hopefully gain a Psy.D in Clinical Psychology to start a practice.

https://thelearningsciences.com/portfolio-items/bundle-collection-harvard/?lang=en#

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224869363_Bayesian_Just-So_Stories_in_Psychology_and_Neuroscience

Bowers, J. S. (2016). The practical and principled problems with educational neuroscience. Psychological Review, 123(5), 600-612. http://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000025

The key argument in this paper is that Educational Neuroscience is ineffective as a discipline for determining classroom styles and diagnosing learning disorders.