Paper instructions:

In the paper, you should concisely summarize the contents of two journal articles that include an experiment on some aspect of sensation/perception.

The paper should be written as if you are writing a newspaper article to appear in the science section of a newspaper like the New York Times.

To see some examples of this style of writing look here: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science http://www.latimes.com/science/

There are also some good examples here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/perception/

The audience for your paper can be assumed to be educated and have a good vocabulary, but they can also be assumed to know nothing about psychology and maybe not

too much about science in general. Your job is to explain, in your own words without using jargon, one of the experiments in the journal article. In the paper you must

explain the rationale for the experiment (why the authors did what they did); what their methods were (what they did); and finally their results (what they found and

what implications their findings have). If the article contains multiple experiments you do not need to describe all of them.

Remember, you should not use overly academic terminology or any technically detailed descriptions. (Failure to heed this advice is the biggest flaw in most papers

that people have submitted in the past.) Instead you should summarize the experiment in language that would be understood by someone without any special knowledge

about science or psychology. Remember also that in a short paper it will be difficult to describe all of the results, or to describe even a subset of the results with

a great deal of detail. Thus, you should think about the most important aspect(s) of the results and describe that.

Be sure to write the paper yourself, using your own words. The wording used in a journal article, and in abstracts of journal articles, will generally be

inappropriate for the newspaper-article-like paper that you will be writing. You should first read the article and attempt to understand the experimental results. Then

explain the experiment to your target audience. If you do not understand the article, you cannot use them for your paper.

The article must have been published in 2013 to 2014, and must come from one of the following journals: Attention, Perception and Psychophysics

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Cognition
Visual Cognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Vision Research

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Psychological Science
Nature
Nature Neuroscience

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Science