describe the interesting or main questions and how well you believe they were addressed by one or more of the papers; critically evaluate the experimental design and/or the authors’ interpretation of the findings;

The purpose of a thought paper is to present your own original view on the readings in at least one of the following ways: describe the interesting or main questions and how well you believe they were addressed by one or more of the papers; critically evaluate the experimental design and/or the authors’ interpretation of the findings; discuss ideas for theory or experiments that the paper(s) inspired; describe how the papers complemented or contradicted each other. The thought paper must demonstrate that the student has read and critically evaluated one or more of the readings. Importantly, the thought paper is NOT meant to merely summarize the readings, but rather, to express the students’s own critical evaluation and thoughts on the week’s topic.

Thought papers must be 1 (minimum) to 2 (maximum) pages long (double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins all around), not including title page and references (at least 1 reference must be included).

You can choose your topic:

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100422

or

The mind and brain of short-term memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 59,
193-224

or

Dissociation within the frontoparietal network in
verbal working memory: a parametric functional magnetic resonance imaging study. J
Neurosci, 30(10), 3849-3856.