The entire brain is constantly active, even in periods of sleep: regulating, monitoring, sensing, interpreting, reasoning, planning, and acting. Slide 3 shows an actual scan of a healthy person. But that isn’t how the PET scan actually looks. (You are looking down on top of this person’s head). Most of the brain would be dark because of inactivity. The blue outline is the skull, and the circle of color indicates active brain structures. If we only use 10% of our brain, then a PET scan should look like Slide 2 in the accompanying PowerPoint slides.
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View the full collection: Busting Myths in Psychological Science Sensors detect the positrons through gamma radiation and then a computer can construct a three dimensional representation of brain activity based on tracer concentrations. The more active the brain structure, the greater the positron emission. The tracer is metabolized by the brain and in doing so, positrons are emitted. In PET scans, a biologically active radioactive tracer is injected into the subject (for the brain, this is usually a form of glucose). These techniques, which have come into common use in the last 25 years or so, have revolutionized our understanding of brain function.
The best known of these are PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans and fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). What’s more, neuroscientists now have tools for creating images and tracking the activity of living, functioning brains. There are a plethora of articles and videos debunking this myth both in popular media and from neuroscientists. (2012) that about 50% of primary and secondary teachers across different cultures also endorse the 10% Myth. More concerning is the finding by Dekker et al. (2013) found that this misconception (hereafter called the 10% Myth) is one of the most prevalent misconceptions among the public. It has been used to justify belief in pseudoscientific psychic powers and is a tacit assumption in many self-help programs designed to “unleash” untapped human potential.
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It was the basis of the movie Lucy (2014), which depicted what supposedly would happen if a person actually used all 100% of her brainpower. This notion seems firmly rooted in popular culture despite many efforts to debunk it (Hughes, Lyddy, & Lamb, 2013). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
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