The LMCL Blog

The LMCL now maintains a blog, hosted by Medium. If you’re enrolled in PSYC 479, one option for your ‘final paper’ is to contribute a blog post about some topic related to language and/or music cognition that you find interesting.

The blog can be found at our lab publication section on Medium.

Ideally, these posts should:

  1. describe the findings of a recent primary source article about music perception/cognition (ideally referring to additional relevant sources as well).
  2. target an intelligent, but non-expert, audience. Consider the advice here, for example.

You could find recent interesting and relevant work in lots of ways. If you have a topic in mind, try google scholar (I suggest you constrain your search to the last year or two). If you have an older paper you’re interested in, try a cited reference search (click “Cited by…” under the google scholar result for that paper) to see if there’s some newer relevant research that you could include. And if you don’t yet have a topic in mind, try browsing recent tables of contents from some journals that publish relevant research – here are some suggestions (though definitely not an exhaustive list - and note that you may need on-campus or proxy access to get some of these journals):

Here’s some basic info on writing a post in Medium, adding your post to the lab publication, and on embedding content in your post. (note: please un-check “Allow curators to recommend my story” when you publish.)

Finally, here are a few examples of (IMHO) good relevant science writing. You should, of course, find your own voice, but here you can find examples of the type of writing we’re hoping for:

Happy writing!

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Last updated on Nov 7, 2023