• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.109-133
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• 2014

Psychological distance refers to the perceived gap between a stimulus and a person's direct experience and its activation influences the decisions and actions that the person makes towards the stimulus. We investigated whether the level of familiarity affects the construction of psychological distance. Specifically, we hypothesized that a familiar stimulus, relative to an unfamiliar stimulus, is perceived to be psychologically closer to the observer and so its perception might be modulated by the perceived spatial distance. The familiarity of stimuli was manipulated in terms of preexposure frequency and preexposure perceptual fluency. In experiments, participants were first exposed with three nonsense words in a lexical decision task. The nonsense words were presented in nonword trials with different levels of frequency (frequent vs. rare, Experiment 1) or with different levels of visibility (less blurred vs. more blurred, Experiment 2). Participants then performed a distance Stroop task with the most familiar and the least familiar nonwords. Each of them appeared in either proximal or distant spatial locations in scenes with clear depth cues. The results showed a significant interaction between the word familiarity and the spatial distance: the familiar word was judged faster in proximal locations but slower in distant locations relative to the unfamiliar word. The current findings suggest that metacognitive evaluation of familiarity could be one of the critical factors that underlie the construction of psychological distance.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.111-118
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• 2011

While sharing information through Internet by Web page or XML, familiar labels of information items will reduce the confusion among users. The advises of the language experts for choosing familiar terms may cost money and time, but an automated Indicator can help a user select right terms without any cost. This paper collects Indicators that can be easily found over Internet and compares the efficiency of them for selecting familiar terms. The collected indicators are the number of words in a term, the frequency used in a related Web sites, and the number of search results in portal sites. The results conclude that the found terms by the frequency matches 76% for women's and 71% for men's, which tells that the frequency can be a reference for selecting familiar terms.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.91-114
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• 2021

The first step of this study is to collect appropriate words from the list of words in the relationship. All vocabularies that are unfamiliar-but capable of guessing the meaning and expressing interpersonal relationships-were collected from three Korean dictionaries. Consequently, a compilation of 2,725 words was created; overlapping words were selected; and 910 words were chosen. Only grammatical forms were found; however, words with similar meanings-or identical meanings-were also found, and a reclassification process was required to reflect this. These procedures were repeated seven times, resulting in a total of 249 words being screened. However, due to the characteristics of this study, the number of words needs to be reduced because the meaning of words is more specific and summarized, and the overall interpersonal aspect is well expressed. Therefore, the process of reclassifying 249 words by their familiarity and appropriateness was subsequently undertaken, and the word with the highest level of familiarity and appropriateness was finally selected.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.15-34
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• 2007

Two experiments were conducted to examine whether the word superiority effect (WSE) can be affected by visual familiarity of Hangout font and visual identicalness between target letter and test letter. In experiment 1, Using Batang-font as a target font, it was tested whether the consistency between test font and target font could affect the WSE across different display time conditions. In experiment 2, using the Batang-font and Sebeul-font, the effort of visual familiarity on WSE were investigated. The results revealed that the WSE was found regardless the consistency between target and test letter. In addition, it was found that visual familiarity could affect overall detection rate, but not WSE. These results suggested that the WSE on Hanguel is independent of visual properties.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.349-366
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• 2012

Two experiments were conducted to examine the processing of Korean compounds in relation to saisios. Saisios is a letter interposed between constituents when a phonological change takes place on the onset of the first syllable of the second constituent. This saisios rule is often violated by writers, resulting in many words having two spellings: one with saisios and the other without saisios. Among two spellings, some words are more familiar with saisios, some are usually spelled without saisios, and some are balanced. In Experiment 1 using the go/no-go lexical decision task, participants were asked to judge compounds with/without saisios. Saisios-dominant words (나뭇잎 > 나무잎) were responded faster when they appeared with saisios, whereas the opposite was true for words that usually appear without saisios (북엇국 < 북어국). In experiment 2, we presented participants compound words that were balanced on saisios. The results showed that words without saisios were responded faster than words with saisios. To summarize, the results of Experiment 1 and 2 were consistent with the APPLE model. Some problems related to the saisios rule were discussed in terms of reading process.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.303-308
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• 2008

The purpose of the present study is to investigate that word frequency has significant influence on noun definitions in Korean. The experimental group was 80 students from Elementary school, Middle school, High school and University. They rated familiarity and wrote definitions for nouns. Noun definitions were analyzed with semantic categories such as "use/purpose," "description," "association/relation," "partial explanation," "explanation," "error," "partial explanation-attribute," "partial explanation-specific class," "partial explanation-nonspecific class," "explanation-specific class," "explanation-nonspecific class." As a result, they showed familiarity for high-frequency nouns. "EXPL" categories that use class terms or critical attributes were used more frequently in definitions of high-frequency nouns compared with low-frequency nouns. They increased with age and errors decreased with age. Word frequency had a significant influence on noun definitions.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.13-46
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• 2024

This study aimed to develop a Korean word tool related to solitude and loneliness. Because collecting the right words is very important, words that express the two emotions were selected from three language dictionaries. At this time, related words were collected to specifically reflect the increasing number of people seeking voluntary solitude. Consequently, 1,768 words were collected. From these, 684 words were selected based on specific criteria that everyone can understand and use, and they went through a six-iteration selection process, which extracted a total of 243 words. Considering the nature of the study, the meanings of the words collected must be clear and comprehensively represent the overall aspects of solitude and loneliness. Accordingly, a total of 243 words were selected, focusing on words that received the highest ratings in terms of familiarity and appropriateness. It is expected that this study will establish a clear concept of solitude and loneliness and provide basic data that can be used to understand the realistic and universal perception of Koreans from a developmental perspective.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.43-56
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences of preschoolers' utterance features by their gender and play situation type. For this purpose, a total of 40 5-year-old children participated in this study. Dyad were participated in each play session during 10 minutes. The play session was videotaped and the videotaped data were transcribed by CBS(2014). The collected data were analyzed by using a independent t-test and paired t-test. The main results are as follows. First, girls' MLU-e, MLU-w, MLU-m were longer than that of boys in a familiar play situation. Second, preschoolers' MLU-w was longer in an unfamiliar play situation than in familiar ones and preschoolers' type-token ratio were higher in an unfamiliar play situation than in familiar ones. Implications for the importance of preschoolers' spontaneous speech are discussed.

• Digital Contents
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• no.1 s.80
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• pp.38-46
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• 2000

너무나 친숙한 단어 인터넷. 삶의 주위에는 언제나 인터넷이 있다. 인터넷이 발전을 거듭하면서 우리 주변의 모든 것을 바꾸어 놓고 있다. 얼마 전부터 TV광고나 언론매체에 각 이동통신 사업자의 무선인터넷에 대한 현란한. 그러나 목숨을 건 광고가 계속되고 있다. 우리들에게 친숙한 핸드폰에서 인터넷을 사용할 수있다는 광고가 바로 이것이다. 핸드폰과 인터넷의 만남으로 대표할 수 있는 무선인터넷의 세계로 들어가보자.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.47-71
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• 1995

A psychological disturbance caused by letters in double image was termed as'letter sickness'.The effects of stimulus exposure time and letter familiarity on the letter sickness were measured to test a hypothesis that disturbances in eye movement and recognition stages is the cause of letter sickness.Letter sickness incteased significantly as stimulus exposure time lengthened from 50ms,100ms,to 3000ms.It was also significantly higher with familiar Hangul letters as compared with less familiar foreign letters and meaningless words as compared with meaningful words,respectively.These experimental findings imply that letter sickness is caused by the failure of adjusting eye movements to dismiss the double images.that the more familiar the letters.the more strongly the letter-identification process is commotted,resulting in the increased effect of disturbance from double image.and that the disturbance effect of double image is amplified when it is hard to extract the meaning from familiar letters.An experiment where subjects were made to learn Braille-like symbols consisting of 6 dots to test the hypothesis that the stronger the tendency to process the meaning of a symbol,the stronger becomes letter sickness due to double image,also showed that letter sickness significantly increased as a function of learning.