What are Neuromyths?

Partial truths – false beliefs about the brain and/or its functioning.

The word “neuromyth” is a compound word that joins:

neuro, as in the cells related to the nervous system and the brain, with
myth, as in a “widely held but false belief or idea” (Tokuhama-Espinosa, 2018, p. 11).

Tokuhama-Espinosa (2017 – 2018) asserts that myths encompass:

Partial truths – false beliefs about the brain and/or its functioning.
Overgeneralisations of scientific findings (exaggerations of the data beyond the original findings and purpose).
Misinterpretations of the findings and data.
Misconceptions and unsubstantiated beliefs.
Neuromyths are “hypotheses which have been invalidated [but which] nevertheless leave traces and if these have captured a wider imagination, the ‘myths’ take root (OECD, 2007, p. 108).”