• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.505-534
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was aimed to compare the lexical access and representation of semantic system in the bilinguals. The participants(late Korean-English bilinguals) performed the word-picture matching task. The task was to decide whether the pictures presented after the words(basic-level categories) represent the Korean(L1) or English(L2) words' meaning or not. The stimuli were consisted of common object belonged to four different categories(animal, part of body, clothes, tool). To control the translation strategies, the SOA(stimulus onset asynchrony) were manipulated as 650ms(Exp. 1) and 200ms(Exp. 2). In both experiment, the RTs were faster in L1 condition. The decision time of the part of body categories were shorter than the animal in L1 condition. In L2 condition, clothes were responded faster than the tools. The differences of the lexical access time implied that the bilingual semantic system seemed to be structured by more sub-level categories than the super-level, living or non-living things, and the ways to access the bilingual lexicon might be differentiated according to the languages.

• 재활복지
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.229-246
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• 2016

The aim of this study is to conduct superordinate word selection task to compare their performance and reaction time, and superordinate word writing task to compare the differences in their performance and error pattern in 40 elderly adults and 43 young adults. As a result, first, in both tasks, elderly adults had a smaller number of correct responses. Second, elderly adults showed slower reaction time than young adults. Third, in superordinate word writing task, elderly adults showed more relevant errors than irrelevant errors. The reason elderly adults had a smaller number of correct responses in both tasks was that the links among the pieces of information in the semantic lexicon weakened or deteriorated due to normal aging. Slower reaction time was based on neurophysiological changes of the brain and cognitive processing speed. In addition, the relevant errors showed that they could access the lexicon for target words and produce explanation the relevant characteristics, even though they could not retrieve the target words.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.42-47
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• 2010

Speech shares acoustic features with other sound-based processing, which makes it difficult to distinguish phonological process from acoustic process in speech processing. In this study, we examined the difference between acoustic process and phonological process during repetition tasks. By contrasting various stimuli in different lengths, we localized neural correlates of acoustic process within bilateral superior temporal gyrus, which was consistent with the previous studies. The activated patterns were widely overlapped between words and pseudowords, i.e., contents-free. In contrast, phonological process showed left-lateralized activation in middle temporal gyrus located at anterior temporal areas. It implies that phonological process is contents-specific as shown in our previous study, and at the same time, more language-specific. Thus, we suggest that phonological process is distinguished from acoustic process in that it is always accompanied with the obligatory access to available phonological codes, which can be an entry of the mental lexicon.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-23
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• 2012

This study investigated the lexical access processing of inflected Korean verbs in the mental lexicon. In Korean, verbs can be classified into two main types of inflections, which are regular and irregular inflections, which can be further divided into three types of regular inflections and two types of irregular inflections. A masked priming lexical decision task was used and the priming effects were compared. Experiments were carried out using the five different types of verbal inflections in Korean: (1) No change-regularity (regular verbs with no orthographical or phonological changes), (2) Phonological change-regularity (regular verbs with phonological changes to the stem only), (3) Orthographical change-regularity (regular verbs that only undergo orthographical changes), (4) Stem change-irregularity (the stem is omitted or alternated with the other phoneme of the stem in irregular verbs), (5) Ending change-irregularity (irregular verbs with changes in the endings by phoneme substitution). The first three types are regarded as regular verbal inflections whereas the latter two types are regarded as irregular verbal inflections. The infinitive forms of the verb were presented as target words and three different conditions were presented as prime words. The three conditions included regular verbal inflection, irregular verbal inflection, and a control condition in which morphologically and semantically unrelated primes were presented. In addition, different stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) were manipulated (43ms, 72ms, 230ms) to examine the time frame of the morphological decomposition process in word recognition. The results revealed that there were significant priming effects in all three SOAs across conditions. Hence, there was no significant differences in priming effects between regular and irregular verbal inflection conditions. This may suggest that Korean verb processing does not adopt different processing routes for regular and irregular inflections, which can also be an indication of earlier morphological information processing for Korean verbs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.279-284
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• 2000

시각적으로 제시된 영어 단어 재인시에 주로 단어빈도와 단어길이가 영향을 준다고 알려져 있다. 그러나, 단어빈도와 관련된 연구는 체계적으로 이루어져 왔지만 단어길이와 관련된 연구는 체계적으로 이루어지지 않은 편이다. 또한, 단어빈도와 단이길이에 따라 단어가 성 어휘집(mental lexicon)에 어떻게 표상되어 있으며, 상호간에 어떠한 관계가 있는 것인지에 대해서는 아직 구체적으로 알려져 있지 않다. 본 연구의 목적은 첫째, 단어길이와 빈도가 시각적으로 제시된 영어단어 어휘접근에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보아 단어길이효과가 어휘접근단계에서 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 하며 둘째, 단어길이와 빈도가 미국인과 한국인의 어휘접근시 어떤 차이를 보이는지 알아보아 한국인과 미국인의 영어단어 정보처리의 차이를 살펴보고자 하는 것이다. 단어 명명과제와 어휘판단과제를 사용한 실험결과 한국인과 미국인에게 모두 단어 길이와 빈도가 어휘접근에 영향을 주었다. 그러나, 한국인의 경우는 상대적으로 어휘판단과제에서 보다는 단어명명과제에서 어려움을 겪는다는 결과를 보여주었다. 이와 같은 결과를 볼 때 한국인이 영어단어 어휘에 접근할 때에도 미국인과 유사한 방식으로 처리를 하는 것으로 보인다. 그러나, 한국인의 경우는 미국인보다 조음과정에 상대적으로 더 어려움을 느끼는 것으로 보이며, 이것은 영어교육시 단순한 어휘암기보다 음운부호를 산출하고 단어를 말하는 능력을 향상시키는 방법을 좀 더 강조해야 한다는 것을 시사한다.