Description
Build on/extend an experiment in the literature by adding a new condition to an existing study
This is the study: Bilingual and Monolingual Brains Compared: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining Investigation of Syntactic Processing and a Possible “Neural Signature” of Bilingualism
Link for the study:
The assignment could be though as a project proposal.
1 – introduction (stating the theoretical question/issue you are addressing then briefly summarise the findings in the literature that are most closely related to the question. Then describe how your experiment is going to build on those findings, and why the neuroimiging technique you have chosen (fMRI) is the most appropriate to answer the question.
2 – Method section, where you lay out the important specifics of the experiment. This includes who the participants are, what the neuroimaging methods are, what experiment design is, how you will analyse the data and how this will inform you about your question.
3 – Finally close with your hypotheses about results, and how you will interpret them.
And references
NOTES:
No need to actually conduct the study, but you still need to be realistic.
What about mono English vs bi-lingual English/Greek? Or it can be any language you like really.
Because they did Spansish which is Latin based, we could choose one that is non-latin based, maybe Greek? To basically look at the neural architecture underlying all human language.
Another thing in their paper is early vs late exposure of the languages.
So we can think is there something you could add to what they already did, or could you change the sample/language or something to make yours a bit different. They mention this area a lot too left inferior frontal cortex, LIFC