• 음성과학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.181-191
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• 2001

The acoustic quality of a vowel is known to be mostly determined by the frequencies of the first formant(Fl) and the second formant(F2). The perceptual(or psychological) dimensions of vowel perception were examined in this study. Also the relationships among perceptual dimensions, acoustical dimensions(Fl & F2), and articulatory gestures of vowel were discussed. Using multi-dimensional scaling(MDS) technique, the experiment was performed in order to identify the perceptual dimensions of the perception of Korean vowel. In the experiment 8 Seoul standard speakers performed the similarity rating task of 10 synthesized Korean vowels. Two-dimensional MDS solution based. on the similarity rating scores was obtained. The results showed that two perceptual dimensions, D1 and D2 were correlated strongly with F2 and F1(r = -.895 and .878 respectively), and were so interpreted as 'vowel advancement' and 'vowel height' respectively. The relationship between the perceptual dimensions of vowel and the articulatory positions of tongue suggested that perception may be directly linked to production. Further research problems were discussed in the .final section.

• 인지과학
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.177-197
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• 2010

선택적 정보처리에 관한 지각적 부담 가설과 희석 가설을 비교하기 위해 세 개의 실험을 실시하였다. 지각적 부담 가설은 행동 목표에 부합하는 과제의 지각적 부담이 적을수록 불필요한 정보가 더 깊이 처리될 수 있다고 보는 반면, 희석 가설은 지각적 부담에 관계없이 제한된 주의 자원에 대한 경쟁에 의해 정보 선택 여부가 결정된다고 본다. 두 가설을 비교하기 위하여 표적 탐색의 지각적 부담이 방해자극의 반응 간섭에 미치는 영향을 측정하였다. 실험 1과 2에서는 탐색 배열을 구성하는 비표적자극의 개수와 색깔을 각각 조절하여 시각탐색의 지각적 부담을 조작하였다. 그 결과 방해자극의 간섭은 지각적 부담에 상관없이 비표적자극이 많을수록 감소하였다. 실험 3에서는 비표적자극의 역할을 규명하기 위해 비표적자극과 방해자극의 지각적 범주를 같거나 다르게 제시하였다. 그 결과 지각적 범주가 같을 때에만 방해자극의 간섭이 감소하였다. 전반적으로 본 연구의 결과는 지각적 부담 가설보다는 희석 가설과 일치하며, 더 나아가 시각 정보의 선택이 지각적 범주 별로 특화된 주의 자원의 제약을 받는다는 증거를 제공한다.

• 인지과학
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2022

지각부하 이론(Lavie, 1995)에 따르면 지각부하가 높을수록 방해자극의 영향이 감소한다. 지각부하를 다룬 연구들은 문자열에서 표적 문자의 탐지에 걸린 반응시간을 측정하는 Eriksen과 Eriksen(1974)의 측면자극 과제(flanker task)를 주로 사용하였다. 한편, 순간 노출되고 사라진 문자열 중 보고해야 할 표적이 후단서로 지시되는 후단서 강제선택 과제에서는 부적 반복효과(negative repetition effect; NRE)가 관찰된다. 이 효과는 나란히 제시된 두 문자가 서로 다른 경우보다 동일할 때, 표적의 식별률이 더 떨어지는 것을 말한다. 후단서 강제선택 과제는 정보처리의 초기지각 단계와 관련한 처리 과정을 잘 보여준다. 본 연구는 지각부하가 후단서 강제선택 과제에서 표적의 정확 식별률과 NRE에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 검토하고자 하였다. 지각부하는 후단서에 의한 강제선택 대상인 두 문자(표적 후보) 사이에 삽입되는 제3의 문자의 유사성(실험 1; 'ㄹ', 'ㅅ', '·')과 개수(실험 2; 0개, 2개-왼쪽 대각선 배치와 오른쪽 대각선 배치, 4개, 실험3; 2개, 4개)로 조작했다. 실험 1에서 NRE의 경향성이 관찰되었으나 지각부하의 효과는 관찰되지 않았다. 실험 2에서는 NRE가 유의하였으며, 지각부하는 유의하였으나, NRE와의 상호작용은 관찰되지 않았다. 실험 3은 부하자극의 위치 변동성을 도입하여 강화된 지각부하의 수준에 따라 NRE가 변화할 것인지를 다시 확인하였는데, 지각부하의 효과가 관찰되지 않았다. 본 연구의 결과는 순간 노출된 표적에 대한 분리주의과정으로 인해 지각부하가 지각 정보처리의 초기 단계에 영향을 미치지 못하였을 가능성이 있음을 시사한다.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.207-215
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• 2002

Perceptual evaluation of duration models of spoken Korean was carried out based on the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) model for text-to-speech conversion. A reference set of durations was produced by a commercial text-to-speech synthesis system for comparison. The duration model which was built in the previous research (Chung & Huckvale, 2001) was applied to a Korean language speech synthesis diphone database, 'Hanmal (HN 1.0)'. The synthetic speech produced by the CART duration model was preferred in the subjective preference test by a small margin and the synthetic speech from the commercial system was superior in the clarity test. In the course of preparing the experiment, a labeled database of spoken Korean with 670 sentences was constructed. As a result of the experiment, a trained duration model for speech synthesis was obtained. The 'Hanmal' diphone database for Korean speech synthesis was also developed as a by-product of the perceptual evaluation.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.131-142
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• 2002

Place assimilation in Korean has been argued to reflect the consonantal strength hierarchy in which velar is stronger than labial which is in turn stronger than coronal. The strength relationship has been manifested in two ways in literature. One is through phonological representation as shown in Iverson and Lee (1994). The other is through perceptual salience ranking as suggested by Jun (1995). The goal of this study is to examine the perceptual salience of placed consonants through an identification experiment. The experiment conducted in this study reveals four facts. First, place identification of a prevocalic consonant is higher than that of a postvocalic one. Second, place identification of a stop in coda is more confusable than that of a nasal counterpart in Korean contrary to other previous studies. Third, velar is most confusable in place identification in contrast to Jun (1995) and Hume et al. (1999). Finally, place perception of consonants can vary depending on adjacent vocalic context. These results suggest that perceptual salience is one of the possibly several factors affecting a phonological process.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2018

This study examined the acoustic characteristics of Korean alveolar fricatives of normal children. Developing children aged 3 and 7, typically produced 2 types of nonsense syllables containing alveolar fricative /sV/ and /VsV/ sequences where V was any one of three corner vowels (/i, a, and u/). Stimuli containing the speech materials used in a production experiment were presented randomly to 12 speech language pathologists (SLPs) for a perception test. The SLPs responded by selecting one of seven alternative sounds. Acoustic measures such as duration of frication noise, normalized intensity, skewness, and center of gravity were examined. There was significant difference in acoustic measures when comparing vowels. Comparison of syllable structures indicated statistically significant differences in duration of frication noise and normalized intensity. Acoustic parameters could account for the perceptual data. Relating the acoustic and perception data by means of logistic regression suggests that duration of frication noise and normalized intensity are the primary cues to perceiving Korean fricatives.

• 인지과학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2004

순간 노출된 형태의 판단 과제에서 균질 연결성의 효과를 체계적으로 검증하기 위해 두실험이 수행되었다. 상하로 연결되거나 분리되어 배치된 두 괄호의 정체 판단에서 관찰된 부적 반복효과가 분리된 자극판을 예상하는 지각 태세에 기인할 가능성(실험 1)과 반응 편중 및 짧은 노출시간에 기인할 가능성(실험 2)을 검토하였다. 실험 1은, 연결된 자극판만을 사용하여, 도형의 한 부분으로 지시된 표적만을 보고하는 조건과 전체 도형을 보고하는 조건 모두에서 부적 반복효과를 관찰하였다. 실험 2는, 노출시간을 늘여 정확 보고율을 높이는 동시에, 애매한 도형을 이용하여 반응 편중의 정도를 계산하였는데, 반응 편중 효과의 제거 후에도 여전히 부적 반복효과를 관찰하였다. 본 연구의 결과는, 과제의 요구가 없어도 균질 연결된 형태들이 분석적으로 처리될 수 있음을 가리키며, 나아가 균질 연결성이 지각 조직화의 원리라는 가설을 부정하는 것으로 보인다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2010

Using a speeded classification task (Garner, 1978), we investigated the perceptual interaction of distinctive features in Korean consonants. The main questions of this study were whether listeners can perceptually identify the component features that make up complex consonant sounds, whether these features are processed independently or dependently and whether there is a systematic hierarchy in their dependency. Participants were asked to classify syllables based on their difference in distinctive features in the task. Reaction times for this task were also gathered. For example, participants classified spoken syllables /ta/ and /pa/ as one category and /$t^ha$/ and /$p^ha$/ as another in terms of aspiration condition. In terms of articulation, participants classified /ta/ and /$t^ha$/ as one category and /pa/ and /$p^ha$/ as another. We assumed that the difference between their RTs represents their interdependency. We compared the laryngeal features and place features (Experiment 1), resonance features and place features (Experiment 2), and manner features and laryngeal features (Experiment 3). The results showed that distinctive features were not perceived in a completely independent way, but they had an asymmetric and hierarchical interdependency. The laryngeal features were found to be more independent compared to place and manner features. We discuss these results in the context of perceptual basis in phonology.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.598-609
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• 2014

The increased use of online shopping by older consumers means that online retailers need to consider older consumers when designing websites. We investigated the specific characteristics of commercial websites (i.e., perceptual fluency) through an online experiment. Guided by perceptual fluency and affect optimization literature, hypotheses highlighting older consumers' responses to websites were proposed and tested. Results confirmed that older consumers (in their 50s) are more generous in evaluating online retailers' websites than younger consumers (in their 20s) and that responses to websites are dependent on perceptual fluency. The findings are consistent with previous research and provide additional support for theories that deal with an online apparel shopping context. Practical implications and limitations are discussed.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2007

In situations of spatio-temporal perception about visuo-auditory stimulus, researches propose optimal integration hypothesis that perceptual process is optimized to the interaction of the senses for the precision of perception. So, when the visual information considered generally dominant over any other sense is ambiguous, the information of the other sense like auditory stimulus influences the perceptual process in interaction with visual information. Thus, we performed two different experiments to certain the conditions of the interacting senses and influence of the condition. We consider the interaction of the visuo-auditory stimulation in the free space, the color of visual stimulus and sex difference of testee with normal people. In first experiment, 12 participants were asked to judge the change in the frequency of audio-visual stimulation using a visual flicker and auditory flutter stimulation in the free space. When auditory temporal cues were presented, the change in the frequency of the visual stimulation was associated with a perceived change in the frequency of the auditory stimulation as the results of the previous studies using headphone. In second experiment, 30 male and 30 female were asked to judge the change in the frequency of audio-visual stimulation using a color of visual flicker and auditory flutter stimulation. In the color condition using red and green. Both male and female testees showed same perceptual tendency. male and female testees showed same perceptual tendency however, in case of female, the standard deviation is larger than that of male. This results implies that audio-visual asymmetry effects are influenced by the cues of visual and auditory information, such as the orientation between auditory and visual stimulus, the color of visual stimulus.