George Washington University Memory Performance Neuroscience Reaction Paper

For your reaction paper, you are expected to provide a brief summary of the research and the critical evaluation focusing on the following questions.

1. Research Question
   1. What is (are) the research question(s) that the authors are asking in the paper?
   2. Why is (are) the question(s) important to study?
2. Research Approach
   1. What is theory that the authors guided their research?
   2. What is the hypothesis of the authors?  
   3. How was it justified on the basis of the background research and the theory?
3. Design 
   1. For each experiment, what are the independent variables and what is (are) the rationale(s) to manipulate a particular variable?
   2. What are the dependent variables and how were they measured? 
4. Results
   1. Describe the obtained results.
   2. Do the results support or not support the hypothesis of the authors?
5. Conclusions and Implications
   1. What are the conclusions regarding the research questions?
   2. Are there any weaknesses in the study (e.g., confounding variable, ambiguity in the operational definition of independent variables, etc.)? 
   3. Do you have any alternative hypotheses to explain the results?