Allt2012Memo

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Ovid Tzeng Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica

• development of cognitive neuroscience
  • MRI units for humanities

• Memory research
  • words or characters in experiments
  • all the studies used English alphabets
    • Awareness of other writing system

• discovery of oracle writings

• Greek scholars

• Callimachus 8305 BC)
  • poet, index system for the library

• Philates
  • first dictionary

• Britanicca
  • no more exist??

• MIND
  • long-term memory
    • language, episodic memory, visual semantics
  • central executive
    • phonological loop, episodic buffer, visuospatial sketchpad
    • grapho-motorical processing is also necessary

• language
  • phonology, semantics, syntax, orthography

• information in the prints
  • affordance thoery of scriptal stability
  • orthographic equilibrium hypothesis
    • how transparent

• morphological & contextual information

• BRAIN
  • Cerebellum
    • size comparable to the body size in other animals
    • in the case of human, this does not apply

• Equipment
  • MRI
  • MEG
  • TMS
  • ERP
    • NI
    • N1: early sensory component
    • P200: detection and analysis of higher-level visual features, guided by attention
    • N400: elicited by any meaningful items, related to understanding

• Eye Tracker
• Eye Tracker + ERP

• Reading processes
  • graphic: Y
  • phonetic: Y
  • morphological: Y
  • orthographic: Y
  • associative or semantic: not sure
  • bidirectional:

• use of the components of Chinese characters (radicals or main parts)
  • phonogram reading
    • priming effects will occur

• Visual word form area

• Chinese character processing
  • word reading
  • frequency effects

• Young learners do not write much
  • so they make many errors in writing Chinese characters