Alternative Assignment
Please follow all directions provided to ensure you receive credit for participation. This alternative assignment will serve to replace your participation in the research study, The effect of relaxation on response inhibition and early affective perception of words, for extra credit.
Please read the following articles (PDFs are provided) and answer all questions below to receive your credit. Provide support for your answers from the articles.
[1] Dorjee, D., Lally, N., Darrall-Rew, J., & Thierry, G. (2015). Dispositional mindfulness and semantic integration of emotional words: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Neuroscience Research, 97, 45-51.
[2] Andreu, C. I., Cosmelli, D., Slagter, H. A., & Franken, I. H. (2018). Effects of a brief mindfulness-meditation intervention on neural measures of response inhibition in cigarette smokers. PloS one, 13(1), e0191661.
Answer the following questions regarding article 1.
What is the rationale of this project (i.e., what are the authors aiming to address with their research contributions)?
How do the authors justify that individuals with higher levels of trait/dispositional mindfulness display reduced accessibility to the semantic representations of negative concepts (demonstrated by larger N400 for negative words)?
What evidence do the authors provide to suggest that there is a relationship between activation in language systems, attention, and mindfulness beyond the semantic anomaly interpretation of the P600?
What is the greatest limitation of this study? How do the authors provide a framework for future research related to the relationship between mindfulness and modulations in the N400 and P600?
Answer the following questions regarding article 2.
What is the rationale of this project (i.e., what are the authors aiming to address with their research contributions)?
What evidence do the authors use to potentially justify why they may not have found behavioral improvements in response inhibition following the brief mindfulness induction? Is their justification valid?
How does the sample’s low level of cigarette dependence affect the results of this study?
What evidence do the authors provide to support not including a baseline measure?