A5055529115- Memory Processes and Influences
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Language Development and Disorders
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2016-2025
Wuhan University of Technology
2021
Washington University in St. Louis
2008-2010
University at Albany, State University of New York
2005-2008
Albany State University
2005-2008
The characteristics of response time (RT) distributions beyond measures central tendency were explored in 3 attention tasks across groups young adults, healthy older and individuals with very mild dementia the Alzheimer's type (DAT).Participants administered computerized Stroop, Simon, switching tasks, along psychometric that tap various cognitive abilities a standard personality inventory (NEO-FFI). Ex-Gaussian (and Vincentile) analyses used to capture RT for each participant which afforded...
This study explored differences in intraindividual variability 3 attention tasks across a large sample of healthy older adults and individuals with very mild dementia the Alzheimer's type (DAT). Three groups participants (healthy young adults, DAT) were administered experimental measures attentional selection switching (Stroop, Simon, task switching). The results indicated that measure variability, coefficient variation (CoV; SD/M), increased age early stage DAT. CoV Stroop discriminated...
The present study investigates which cognitive functions in older adults at time A are predictive of conversion to dementia the Alzheimer type (DAT) B. Forty-seven healthy individuals were initially tested 1992-1994 on a trial-by-trial computerized Stroop task along with battery psychometric measures that tap general knowledge, declarative memory, visual spatial processing, and processing speed.Twelve these subsequently developed DAT.The errors color incongruent trials (along difference...
Purpose We report a preliminary study that prospectively tests the potential cognitive enhancing effect of foreign language (FL) learning in older adults with no clear signs decline beyond what is age typical. Because engages large brain network overlaps aging, we hypothesized new later life would be beneficial. Method Older were randomly assigned to 3 training groups: FL, games, and music appreciation. All trained predominately by computer-based program for 6 months, their abilities tested...
The joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in lexical decision were examined 4 experiments as a function nonword type (legal nonwords, e.g., BRONE, vs. pseudohomophones, BRANE). When familiarity was viable dimension for word-nonword discrimination, when legal nonwords used, additive observed both means distributional characteristics the response-time distributions. In contrast, utility undermined by using additivity but not characteristics. Specifically, opposing interactive...
We compared the benefits of repeated testing and study on cued recall unfamiliar face-name pairs in healthy middle-aged older adults. extended Karpicke Roediger's (2008) paradigm to compare effects versus after each pair was correctly recalled once. The results from Experiment 1, which provided no feedback during acquisition phase, yielded a crossover interaction: Middle-aged adults showed expected benefit testing, whereas produced study. When participants were given 2, both benefited...
Despite being viewed as a better way to enhance learning than repeated study, it has not been clear whether testing is equally effective for students with wide range of cognitive abilities. The current study examined test-enhanced would be beneficial participants varied working-memory capacity (WMC) and trait test anxiety (TA). Chinese-English bilingual undergraduates in Hong Kong were recruited participants. They acquired Swahili-English word pairs (half via half testing) performed delayed...
By administering a Stroop task to college-student bilinguals varied in self-rated first- (L1) and second-language (L2) proficiency, the current study examined effects of L1 L2 proficiencies on selective attention performance. We conducted ex-Gaussian analyses capture modal positive-tail components participants' reaction time distributions. Both were associated with shift distributions incongruent trials, relative congruent tail size regardless trial types. This suggests that bilinguals'...
By administering Simon, Simon switching, and operation-span working memory tasks to Cantonese-English bilingual children who varied in their first-language (L1, Cantonese) second-language (L2, English) proficiencies, as quantified by standardized vocabulary test performance, the current study examined effects of L1 L2 proficiency on attentional control performance. Apart from mean we conducted ex-Gaussian analyses capture modal positive-tail components participants' reaction time...
According to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, abstract concepts can be metaphorically associated with more concrete, physically embodied concepts, such as gustatory experience. Studies on taste-emotion metaphoric association reported that people associate love sweet, jealousy sour and bitter, sadness bitter. However, few studies have systematically examined between taste words referred emotion (e.g., "sad") or emotion-laden "funeral"). In current four (total N = 357), we this by having...
Bullying victimization in childhood and adolescence is widely acknowledged for its detrimental effects on mental health loneliness young adulthood. However, the influence of onset time when bullying happens (in primary and/or secondary school) distinct forms remain underexplored. The study aims to explore associations between seven (being teased or called nasty names; rumor spreading; physical harm; threat; property damage; robbery; social exclusion) during university students' school years...
The present study examines how dilemma type (personal or impersonal moral dilemma), language (native foreign) and emotion arousal to a could affect Chinese–English bilinguals' deontological vs utilitarian choices regarding 39 dilemmas. How plays mediating role in the effects of on is also investigated. As shown multilevel analyses, participants made fewer for personal dilemmas than Although significantly mediated this effect type, indirect through was inconsistent with direct choices. For...
Contact with nature has emotional benefits, but the psychological mechanism and potential moderator underlying association between contact emotion regulation remain unclear. The present study investigated how self-reported frequency of is associated use strategies explored mediating role connectedness (i.e., connection to nature) moderating engagement natural beauty. Employing mediation moderated analyses, in a cross-sectional sample 2097 young adults aged 18-35 years old (M = 24.01, SD...
Abstract To talk about time, English speakers often use horizontal spatial metaphors whereas Chinese both vertical and metaphors. Boroditsky (2001) showed that while Chinese-English bilinguals were faster to verify a temporal target like June comes earlier than August after they had seen prime rather prime, monolinguals the reverse pattern, thus supporting linguistic relativity hypothesis. This finding was not conceptually replicated in January Kako's (2007) six experiments for monolinguals....
The present study examined the effects of semantic relatedness on immediate serial recall and recognition. Each participant received either blocked or randomly intermixed recognition trials. Replicating findings previous studies (e.g., Saint-Aubin, Ouellette, & Poirier, 2005), boosted percentage but also increased order errors, after taking into account proportion correctly recalled items, regardless their orders, in In trials, participants’ responses were slower less accurate for...
Abstract The use of taboo words represents one the most common and arguably universal linguistic behaviors, fulfilling a wide range psychological social functions. However, in scientific literature, language is poorly characterized, how it realized different languages populations remains largely unexplored. Here we provide database words, collected from communities (Study 1, N = 1046), along with their speaker-centered semantic characterization 2, 455 for each six rating dimensions),...
Abstract Investigation of affective and semantic dimensions words is essential for studying word processing. In this study, we expanded Tse et al.’s (Behav Res Methods 49:1503–1519, 2017; Behav 55:4382–4402, 2023) Chinese Lexicon Project by norming five (valence, arousal, familiarity, concreteness, imageability) over 25,000 two-character presented in traditional script. Through regression models that controlled other variables, examined the relationships among these dimensions. We included...