The resources here are meant to support PSY 1010 students who are working on projects where they find a media source that describes a research study and compare the media source to the actual research study.
"The study, published Monday in the journal Nature…” “The study’s lead author, Gwenaëlle Douaud, a professor in the department of clinical neurosciences at the University of Oxford…”
7. Found the Nature website
8. Searched for the author’s name
9. Found the research article: SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank
10. It’s not behind a paywall! (It is a pre-print and should be cited as such.) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5
11. Time to read both more thoroughly and decide how well the news article represented the actual study for the ePortfolio assignment!
For more help with scholarly research articles, visit the Scholarly Articles Help tab above!
Use this handout as a way to take notes while reading a scholarly article!