journal article review. this is your chance to find out about cutting-edge research on some aspect of music and mind that you particularly care about. the assignment requires you to explore actual journals where results are published. it will also give you a chance to be exposed to a large number of new papers that you might not otherwise have come across. to do this assignment, identify one recently published (within the last five years) journal article (see a short list of journals below) that reports the results of an experiment. the article must be on a topic related to music and mind, and related to what has been covered in the course readings, lectures, and syllabus. don’t pick a review article that doesn’t present primary data, and don’t pick an arena of processing or behavior that’s not related to the course material. your 6-page (1500-word) paper should: a) include the article’s complete bibliographic info (authors, date, title, journal, page numbers) and the full published abstract. b) briefly outline the article’s hypothesis c) briefly describe the methodology, particularly the parts that are important for helping us evaluate what actually happened in the study. what was measured? who were the participants? d) briefly summarize the main findings. e) briefly summarize the authors’ conclusions. f) briefly critique the study. given what you know about music and mind from your readings and the class (and given your common sense), a) what two aspects of the study deserve particular praise? b) what two aspects of the study are the least convincing (most problematic)? g) explicitly explain the study’s connection with the course material: what does this research add, or challenge, or question? choosing the right article to review is an important part of this assignment; don’t just pick the first article you see! make sure you pick an article that you really understand and that you can legitimately critique; if you don’t have anything to say about the article besides that you liked it and agreed with it, then you haven’t picked the right article. *** online scholar articles and journals i found interesting *** http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/bhm072v1 http://apa.org/monitor/mar01/synesthesia.html http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL & amp;_udi=B6WSS-4FSDFBK-3 & amp;_user=10 & amp;_rdoc=1 & amp;_fmt= & amp;_orig=search & amp;_sort=d & amp;view=c & amp;_acct=C000050221 & amp;_version=1 & amp;_urlVersion=0 & amp;_userid=10 & amp;md5=79e1d29a572310f6e054bda0a685a2e9 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL & amp;_udi=B6WSS-4HG6BDW-C & amp;_user=10 & amp;_rdoc=1 & amp;_fmt= & amp;_orig=search & amp;_sort=d & amp;view=c & amp;_acct=C000050221 & amp;_version=1 & amp;_urlVersion=0 & amp;_userid=10 & amp;md5=31dd78c31a56e0b446099683e5a75f80 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL & amp;_udi=B6VRT-4MCW996-H & amp;_user=10 & amp;_rdoc=1 & amp;_fmt= & amp;_orig=search & amp;_sort=d & amp;view=c & amp;_acct=C000050221 & amp;_version=1 & amp;_urlVersion=0 & amp;_userid=10 & amp;md5=46974206df954f26c3c8f6d10a487542