User talk:ScarlettRidley/sandbox

Hi Scarlett! Very interesting article choice and take on it! It is strange how this entire long wiki page doesn't touch on habituation/adaptation to background noises (your first secondary source you mentioned in your sandbox), which seems just as important in this specific brain ability as selective attention is. And now you're bringing animals into it! I love it. I have never considered how a bird can hear a certain bird call in the midst of all the squaks. Excited to read this after you edit!!

Suggestion: in the section it says "Even more recently, modern neuroscience techniques are being applied to study the cocktail party problem. Some notable examples of researchers doing such work include Edward Chang, Nima Mesgarani, and Charles Schroeder using electrocorticography; Jonathan Simon, Mounya Elhilali, Adrian KC Lee, Shihab Shamma, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham and Jyrki Ahveninen using magnetoencephalography; Jyrki Ahveninen, Edmund Lalor, and Barbara Shinn-Cunningham using electroencephalography; and Jyrki Ahveninen and Lee M. Miller using functional magnetic resonance imaging." ^^ this is so strange because it just lists names and not how they contributed besides what machine they used? and literally only one of the people has a link? Either link to their researchgate.com profile I guess or I just would delete it? I am not sure maybe ask our isntructor but it definitely is a strange paragraph.

Good luck on the rest of this! Sorry this is late! --Mdnack (talk) 06:32, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Scarlett,

I like that right off the bat you noticed that past student-editors have used primary sources instead of secondary sources; I can tell that you took a lot of time digging in to your article! I also like that you thought it would be beneficial to add more links - I think that is what makes a good article even better, so I think you will do great things with this article. And good job using as up-to-date sources that are available for the topic!

I also think it was an excellent idea to add a section on the effect as seen in animals, since there is some updated literature on that area of the topic. The draft of that section seems neutral, has clear structure, and is balanced. I would link the sources in each place you intend to use them next! Madihuddleston (talk) 18:10, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Response to Peer Review
Great points! I'll go over that section and try to decipher what they were trying to add. I agree that that reads extremely weird! My over all view of the page is that it's sort of a hodge podge of stuff, and doesn't flow very well so I hope to add the habituation/adaptation info like what mdnack mentioned and make the page more cohesive as a whole. I will also add my citations soon!

In response to Alex's recent peer review, I agree that a hearing impairment section would definitely add to the article! I'm not sure how the cocktail party effect would work with someone with a hearing impairment. I think it would be interesting research for sure! I'll try to find secondary sources on that specific topic and see how I can add that into the article.

Overall, I'm nervous about my contributions because it's mainly adding sections so I worry that other contributors may want to condense the article down, but I think the sections I want to add are important so hopefully I can do a good job on them so that other editors can add to them in the future. ScarlettRidley (talk) 17:06, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review
Scarlett,

Thank you for your contributions to this article. One of the most critical aspects of Wikipedia is the ability for users to pursue a more in-depth perspective of what they are reading by clicking on a term that has its own Wikipedia article. By adding WikiLinks to several key neuroanatomy terms, you have done just that. One thing I wouldn't mind seeing added is a section on the Cocktail Party Effect in people with hearing impairments; as someone who has moderate-to-severe hearing loss and wears hearing aids to parties, I am curious about the strength or weakness of this effect in other people with similar impairments. This article somewhat relates to my article on chunking in that they both include insight into how attention and working memory influence how our brains sort and prioritize incoming stimuli.

Keep up the good work!

Alexyoung339 (talk) 02:15, 25 February 2019 (UTC)