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Group Conference Assignment The group conferences for this lecture will be in the "journal club" format. Each member of the lecture will produce one 10-15 minute presentation on a mind/brain topic that has been featured in recent science news. The range of topics is wide: anything that involves study of the brain, the mind, learning, memory, perception, language, emotions and/or consciousness. The first step is to locate a news report of a recent finding in newspapers, magazines or web sites such as The New York Times, New Scientist, Scientific American, or NPR. Post the URL for the source onto your group blog for the other members of the group conference to read before class. Research the article by reading the original journal report, and other background materials. In other words, recover the story behind the news story. Prepare an outline with links and images and post it onto your group WebBoard. The members of the group conference who are not presenting that week will post a discussion question in response to each news story. The written paper expanding on your presentation will be due one week later. The
following sites are good portals for mind and brain news: Blogs are a great new source, and there are so many. Here's a few that have caught my attention: Cognitive Daily The Frontal Cortex Neurocritic The
library electronic databases that are most relevant for this assignment are: Google Scholar can also be a good way of locating the research article, and don't forget the personal web sites of individual researchers which often have pdfs of their recent papers freely available.
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