8a: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

In Rick Nauert's online article "Brain Center Links Music, Memory and Emotion," he summarizes a musical experiment performed by a college psychology professor named Petr Janata. Naurt explains in this following quote that after much observation and research, "Earlier work of Janata’s had documented that music serves as a potent trigger for retrieving memories. "(Naurt, psychcentral.com) Furthermore, Janata had even proved in his experiment that older people who listened to more music than others, were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease because they were able to link memories to particular songs so that when a song were to be played, they were able to recall a memory.

Paraphrase:
In the article "Brain Center Links Music, Memory, and Emotion," author Rick Naurt describes an experiment involving music performed by psychology professor Petr Janata. After much research Naurt states about Petr's experiment that, "Earlier work of Janata’s had documented that music serves as a potent trigger for retrieving memories."(Naurt, psychcentral.com) Thus, at the end of Janata's experiment, he was able to prove that older people were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease if they listened to more music because they were able to link particular memories to a song so when that song was played, they could recall that memory.




Summary:
An article written by Rick Naurt explained a musical experiment performed by Petr Janata, a psychology professor. This experiment involved linking songs to memories and in the end, proved that Alzheimer's disease was less likely to develop in older people who listened to more music than those who did not.