SAGE Journal Articles

Article 1: Gropper, R.J., Gotlieb, H., Kronitz, R., & Tannock, R. (2014). Working Memory Training in College Students With ADHD or LD. Journal of attention disorders, 18(4), 331-345. doi: 10.1177/1087054713516490

Questions that apply to this article:

  1. What working memory skills were assessed in this study?
  2. How effective was the working memory intervention?
  3. Do you think that this intervention could or should be generalized to all college students? Would you take advantage of it if it were available?

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Article 2: Han, G., An, L., Yang, B., Si, L., & Zhang, T. (2014). Nicotine-induced impairments of spatial cognition and long-term potentiation in adolescent male rats. Human & Experimental Toxicology, 33(2), 203-213. doi: 10.1177/0960327113494902

Questions that apply to this article:

  1. What is the Morris Water Maze task and how is it used to test learning and memory in rats?
  2. What was the effect of nicotine on the learning and memory abilities of the rats in this study?
  3. What implications does this study have for understanding human learning and memory?

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Article 3: El-Gaby, M., Shipton, O.A., & Paulsen, O. (2014). Synaptic Plasticity and Memory: New Insights from Hippocampal Left–Right Asymmetries. The Neuroscientist. doi: 10.1177/1073858414550658

Questions that apply to this article:

  1. How are the left and right hippocampi different?
  2. Why are optogenetics and chemogenetics important for understanding the functioning of the nervous system?
  3. How might the findings that the left and right hippocampus are different inform studies of human conditions, such as Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Article 4: Finn, B., & Roediger, H.L. (2011). Enhancing Retention Through Reconsolidation: Negative Emotional Arousal Following Retrieval Enhances Later Recall. Psychological Science, 22(6), 781-786. doi: 10.1177/0956797611407932

Questions that apply to this article:

  1. How does reconsolidation affect memory?
  2. What were the methods used to test memory in this study?
  3. Why did the methods of the three experiments differ? What did this enable the researchers to learn about memory?