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**I chose psychology because I think it is a really interesting subject where you can learn about how/why people think the way they do, why they act and react the way they do, and the individual behaviour of people, which I think is really interesting. I am specifically interested in how people who suffer from a neurological disorder like Synesthesia or Autism understand/perceive the world and how they behave. My background knowledge of psychology is probably not amazing but I do a lot of research and reading on neurological conditions and how the people with those conditions see the world that we are living in. I think that my research topic will be something like exploring whether a 'disorder' like Synesthesia is really a disorder or more like an ability/gift since many artists (for example Wassily Kandinsky) are known to have synesthesia and it could possibly be discussed whether it is this condition of his that has made it possible for him to create such strange but quite amazing art.** **I want to know more about neurological disorders like these, and I want to know more about the way these people see the world, how they perceive it, what they think of it, and how they live in it when it most of the time is not really helpful or 'made' for people who have these conditions. for ex. you cannot really call this place 'autism-friendly'. I also would like to learn more about how people who do not have any of these conditions think of and interact with people who do.**
 * The subject that I listed as my first choice was actually philosophy even though i MEANT psychology.**


 * //ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY//**

"Symposium_2_7_98_Thomanerchor_Ctte_for Excellence in Education through Music." Schiller Institute and Fidelio Online Home Page. Web. 06 June 2011. .Provides a lot of information about background of experiment and how to do it. Shows how to control the experiment and gives an estimation of how many test examples are needed.

"Mice and Music Experiment-Mozart, Hard Rock Mice Kill Each Other: Educational CyberPlayGround." Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc. K-12 Education Reference Directory of Resources. Web. 06 June 2011. .Very basic information about the mouse and music experiment.

"Mice and Memory." Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Biomedical Research & Science Education (HHMI). Web. 06 June 2011. .Information about mice and their memory and how the maze experiment can help us how to understand the function of memory. Provides a lot of good information from the people who made the experiment themselves.

"Changes in Maze Behavior of Mice Occur after Sufficient Accumulation of Docosahexaenoic Acid in Brain." Journal of Nutrition. Web. 06 June 2011. .Talks about the effect of a DHA rich die on mice when solving a maze. Also talks about effects of other diets. Quite interesting material, however it might not prove useful for my experiment as I cannot control those molecules in the mice food, but it is worth knowing this.