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Rose, Mike, and Michael Anthony Rose. Writer's block: The cognitive dimension. SIU Press, 2009.


 * A study conducted that was given to UCLA students in which they rated their "blocking behaviors", then were randomly selected to be videotaped and questioned about their behaviors, was conclusive that there are indeed behaviors associated with "writers block" that are expressed in students who deem themselves unable to concentrate or write in a given amount of time.
 * The cognitive dimension as an approach to analyzing human behavior, was applied by Mike Anthony Rose to this study when he was syphoning through the info he had gathered from above and that is how he was able to draw conclusions from his study
 * Could be important to note the different ways Michael Anthony Rose may conduct this study if he were to repeat it, and the things he may have added that are in this book?

Flaherty, Alice Weaver. The midnight disease: The drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.


 * This author refers to writers block as "The midnight disease"
 * Neurologists have pinpointed a specific change in the area of the brain that can produce hypergraphia- or the intense desire to write. The opposite of this phenomena, with less simulation to that area, would be writers block.
 * The temporal lobes are one important feature of the brain that contribute to the production of literature, damage to these lobes can cause hypergraphia- but may also play a role in writers block
 * This source includes many diseases that could be contributors to writers block, and if my contribution to wiki ends up flowing in a neuroscience-y way- then it could be important to include and elaborate on some of the mentioned ones
 * Includes famous artists that had suffered from hypergraphia as well as writers block which may be helpful if I do a case study in the wikipedia page of famous people with the problem

Leader, Zachary. Writer's block. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.


 * Writers block is a psychological rather than physical condition - helpful if i do a neuroscience approach
 * uses famous psychologists theories to support that writers block is internal and psychological... May be helpful if I do mini cases of writers block in the wikipedia page

Editing Draft:

It has been suggested that writer's block is more than just a mentality. Under stress, a human brain will "shift control from the cerebral cortex to the limbic system". The limbic system is associated with the instinctual processes, such as "fight or flight" response; and behavior that is based on "deeply engrained training". The limited input from the cerebral cortex hinders a person's creative processes, which is replaced by the behaviors associated with the limbic system. The person is often unaware of the change, which may lead them to believe they are creatively "blocked". In her 2004 book The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain (ISBN 9780618230655), the writer and neurologist Alice W. Flaherty has argued that literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.

'''Dr. Flaherty suggested in her writing that there are many diseases that may impact ones ability to write. One of which she refers to is Hypergraphia, or the intensive desire to write. She points out that in this condition, the patients temporal lobe is afflicted, usually by damage, and it may be the same changes in this area of the brain that can contribute to writer's blocking behaviors.'''

Amanda L. and Ashley C. review
- I like how you incorperated new information to already stated people's opinion which flowed.

-lang. is good, it is easy to follow and still sounds educated.

-I would maybe provide more detail and expand on what you're trying to say to really grasp the readers understanding.

Ahmad, Melissa, Hannah
You do not need to put the title of the article in your contribution. Second paragraph is good, gives detailed but simple analysis on writers block and is easy to read.

Review from Josseline and Tatianna
The information you wrote was relevant and helped better the article, but I feel like you should maybe relate it more to writer's block and explain how the two can be connected more. It was placed in the correct location because it flows from the last paragraph which also talked about the brain. The source you used was good

Kevin and Brie's Review
source reliable

link to previous information is good

wording flows