Coexistence of Misconceptions and Scientific Conceptions in Chemistry Professors: A Mental Chronometry and fMRI Study

Using mental chronometry and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), 17 pre-university and university professors were tested with a cognitive task that required distinction of true or false statements about chemistry. These were prepared in pairs of similar statements, which differed only by c...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Education
Main Authors:	Patrice Potvin, Guillaume Malenfant-Robichaud, Caroline Cormier, Steve Masson
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Subjects:	science education misconceptions coexistence chemistry mental chronometry fMRI
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.542458/full