week 6 assignment

Annotation of a Quantitative Research Article

This week, you will submit the annotation of a quantitative research article on a topic of your interest. Quasi-experimental, casual comparative, correlational, pretest–posttest, or true experimental are examples of types of research designs used in quantitative research.

An annotation consists of three separate paragraphs that cover three respective components: summary, analysis, and application. These three components convey the relevance and value of the source. As such, an annotation demonstrates your critical thinking about, and authority on, the source. This week’s annotation is a precursor to the annotated bibliography assignment due in Week 10.

An annotated bibliography is a document containing selected sources accompanied by a respective annotation of each source. In preparation for your own future research, an annotated bibliography provides a background for understanding a portion of the existing literature on a particular topic. It is also a useful first step in gathering sources in preparation for writing a subsequent literature review as part of a dissertation.

By Day 7

Use the Walden library databases to search for one quantitative research article from a peer-reviewed journal on a topic of your interest.

Before you read the full article and begin your annotation, locate the methodology section in the article to be sure that the article describes a quantitative study. Confirm that one of the types of quantitative designs, such as quasi-experimental, casual comparative, correlational, pretest–posttest, or true experimental, was used in the study.

Annotate one quantitative research article from a peer-reviewed journal on a topic of your interest.

A summary

This article centers on an attempt to use FMRI and other imaging technology in the brain to determine if some aspects of critical thinking specific to comprehending language are just in Wernicke's and Broca’s areas or do some language processing neuropathways exist outside of those specific areas. By using “Sixty-four chronic left hemisphere stroke patients were evaluated on 11 subtests of the Curtiss–Yamada Comprehensive Language Evaluation – Receptive (CYCLE-R; Curtiss, S., & Yamada, J. (1988). Curtiss–Yamada Comprehensive Language Evaluation. Unpublished test, UCLA)”(Dronkers, & Jaeger, 2004). 8 right hemisphere, and a control of 15 uninjured subjects as a way to test the ideas whether language processing is limited to those areas or among those areas of the brain. The subjects selected each presented with no long-term language and mental processing issues, which the research parameters identified those patients with the best chance of being able to use Computer imaging to test the ideas.

An analysis

This specific study revolves around using different measuring tools (some listed some not), different specific damage, and of course the control groups to determine the finer points regarding if the ideas of the study presented statistical results that have merit. The results were both inconclusive (there are still many guesses as to if the results were consistent or not) and consistent with expected patterns. The researchers are still unable to determine why the three categories of results exist. Category one no idea what is happening, two inconsistencies with the current study and previous studies, three complete consistent with expected results. Why there is uncertainty between the three makes the results inconclusive but consistent with the parameters of the study. Good information but it brings up more questions as it answers.

An application as illustrated in this example

Working specifically within the framework of this study, “Brodmann's area 46, and Brodmann's area 47 of the inferior frontal gyrus” it appears from the study and the layers of measurement tools used up to and including “Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping” in finding out the specific details regarding how each neuropathway affects in this case language processing. What and how do each neuropathway activate and how well when activated does each patients network function. The results were consistent, but many rather large research gaps were stated and in effect ignored with the conclusion. How can this data be applied to work.

That answer is a bit more complex than in other fields of science. Around 1 trillion synapses; with a group being on and performing various and assorted functions, B group being off or only used occasionally for thinking, C automatic functions which operate from the second the electrical tail of the sperm encounters the egg creating a zygote. The electrical tail it appears based on the evidence is where the nervous system develops from. The electrical being the key factor in the evidence, the tail moves/swims. The motion has to come from somewhere, physics tells us it comes from electricity being applied to x type cells which cause the cells to move extension retraction. The electricity generator and the tail the nervous system beings to develop from. From that point up and out the configuration of the neuropathways what is in a, b, c, etc. groups can be very useful in determining exactly what shapes of connect the dots of the B (on synapses) group what shape the neuropathway (connect the dots) is in for each specific different type of brain activity. This research can prove to be very helpful in said brain neuropathway mapping strategies.

Reference

Bigler, E. D. (2017). Structural neuroimaging in neuropsychology: History and contemporary applications. Neuropsychology, 31(8), 934–953. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1037/neu0000418.supp (Supplemental)

Dronkers, N. F., Wilkins, D. P., Van Valin, R. D., Redfern, B. B., & Jaeger, J. J. (2004). Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension. Cognition, 92(1), 145–177. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2003.11.002