21

The brain is very well designed.

56.8

29.1

6.8

5.0

2.3

22

The bigger the brain, the more intelligent the person.

3.6

14.1

27.7

45.9

8.6

23

You have a “grandmother cell” in the brain: a part all about processing information about your grandmother.

3.2

5.9

24.1

54.5

12.3

24

Glial cells are little more than brain “glue”.

3.2

20.5

10.5

12.3

53.6

25

Mirror neurons make us human.

2.7

13.2

18.2

14.5

51.4

26

The brain is disembodied: separate from the body.

2.3

8.6

21.4

58.2

9.5

27

Brain scans can literally “read your mind”.

1.8

16.4

20.9

54.1

6.8

28

Neuro-feedback can provide pleasure and enlightenment.

10.0

45.5

12.7

5.9

25.9

29

Brain training will make you smarter.

18.2

51.8

18.2

5.0

6.8

30

Brain food will make you smarter.

6.8

29.1

37.3

18.2

8.6

31

Spending too much time on Google will make you stupid and go mad.

3.6

5.9

20.0

67.3

3.2

32

The brain receives information from five separate senses.

42.7

38.2

7.7

6.4

5.0

33

The brain perceives the world as it is.

9.1

25.9

32.7

23.2

9.1

34

The brain’s representation of the body is accurate and stable.

5.9

33.6

34.1

12.3

14.1

35

After head injury, people can forget who they are and not recognize others, but be normal in every other way.

50.9

37.7

5.9

2.7

2.7

36

People suffering from amnesia typically cannot recall their own name or identity.

31.8

41.8

12.7

4.1

9.5

37

People in comas usually recover.

5.0

21.8

40.0

14.5

18.6

38

Epilepsy is caused by abnormalities in blood flow in the brain.

8.2

37.3

13.6

7.3

33.6

39

A concussion is not a form of brain injury.

3.6

3.2

15.5

71.4

6.4

40

Strokes only affect old people.

3.2

3.6

9.5

81.4

2.3

41

The effects of stroke are limited to physical disability.

2.3

7.3

12.7

71.4

6.4

42

Strokes are unpreventable.

1.8

12.7

40.0

35.5

10.0

43

Traumatic memories are usually repressed memories.

6.4

37.3

25.9

13.6

16.8

44

Memory works like a video recorder.

10.5

32.7

20.0

25.0

11.8

45

There is such a thing as ‘photographic’ memory.

29.1

37.3

16.8

9.1

7.7

46

‘Flashbulb’ memories are highly accurate.

4.1

18.6

27.3

8.2

41.8

47

Everyone with autism has a rare intellectual gift.

2.3

17.3

25.5

34.5

20.5

48

Autism is caused by the MMR vaccine.

0.9

5.0

16.4

59.5

18.2

49

There is an autism epidemic.

5.5

17.7

26.8

33.6

16.4

50

People with autism are introverted and uncaring.

1.4

9.5

28.6

46.4

14.1

51

Autism is only about disability.

1.4

4.5

28.6

52.7

12.7

52

There is a cure for autism.

1.4

10.9

25.5

48.2

14.1

53

Alzheimer’s is the same as dementia.

3.6

20.0

25.9

39.5

10.9

54

Dementia only affects older people.

2.7

14.1

31.4

44.5

7.3

55

People with dementia are like “zombies”.

1.8

10.5

20.5

58.2

9.1

56

Mental illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.

24.1

54.1

7.7

3.6

10.5