• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.277-297
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• 2023

This study attempted to find out how lexical decision of two-syllable words or pseudo-words is affected by syllabic information, such as syllable frequency, syllable (i.e. vowel) type, and presence of final consonant (i.e. batchim), through the analysis of the Korean Lexicon Project Database (KLP-DB). Hierarchical regression of RT data showed that lexical decision of words was influenced by the frequency of the first syllable, the syllable type of the first and second syllables, batchim for the first and second syllables, and also by the interaction of the two syllable types and the interaction of syllable frequency and batchim of the second syllable. For pseudo-words lexical decision was influenced by the frequency of the first and second syllables, syllable type of the first syllable, and batchim for the first and second syllables, and also by the interaction of the two syllable frequencies, the interaction of the two syllable types, and the interaction of syllable frequency and batchim of the first syllable. Word frequency had a strong effect on lexical decision of words, while syllabic information had a stable effect on the lexical decision of pseudo-words. These results indicate that syllabic information should be seriously considered in constructing word and pseudo-word lists and interpreting lexical decision time. Understanding the effect of syllabic information will also contribute to the understanding of word recognition process.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.128-141
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• 1996

한국어-영어 이중언어자와 비이중언어자인 한국 대학생들을 대상으로 두 언어 처리의 독립성과 영어 처리의 사고 억제 과정을 알아보기 위해서 두 개의 산출실험을 실시하였다. 실험 1에서는 한국어와 영어로 산출 과제를 준 후에 한국어, 영어 단어에 대한 어휘 판단 과제를 하였다. 이중언어자는 한국어-영어 처리 체계가 분리되어 있어서 산출 언어와 목표 단어의 언어가 바뀐 경우에 단어 판단시간이 더 길 것으로 예상하였으나 유의미한 결과는 나오지 않았다. 비이중언어자는 영어 산출 후에 한국어, 영어 단어에 대한 판단 시간이 모두 느려졌으며 이것은 영어 산출에 많은 심적 자원을 소모하였기 때문이라고 해석하였다. 실험2에서는 영어로만 1분간 산출 과제를 주고 20초씩 나눈 세 구간에서 발화된 단어 수를 측정하였다. 이중언어자는 세 번째 구간에서 유의미하게 발화된 단어수가 감소하였지만 비이중언어자는 세 구간에서 발화된 단어수가 비슷하였다. 이것을 영어 산출시의 처리 부담과 관련하여 논하였다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.47-51
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• 2006

본 실험은 한국어 심성어휘집의 표상 정보가 음운정보로 이루어져 있는지, 철자정보로 이루어져 있는지 알아보기 위해 실시되었다. 실험자극은 한국어의 2음절 단어 중 음운변화(자음동화)를 겪는 단어(예: 국민)를 사용하였으며, 각 조건은 철자이웃이 크며 음운 이웃이 큰 단어 조건(O+P+), 철자이웃이 크고 음운이웃은 작은 단어 조건(O+P-), 철자이웃은 작고 음운이웃이 큰 단어 조건(O-P+), 철자이웃과 음운이웃 모두가 작은 조건(O-P-)이었다 실험 1에서 어휘판단 과제를 실시한 결과, 음운이웃 크기와 철자이웃 크기간의 상호작용이 나타났다. 실험2는 동일한 실험자극을 사용한 fMRI 연구를 수행하였다. 실험2 결과 음운처리에 관련된 뇌영역의 활성화가 나타났다. 본 연구결과는 한국어의 경우 심성어휘집이 음운정보로 이루어져 있음을 시사한다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.469-499
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• 2016

The present study investigated the cognitive mechanism underlying online processing of Korean syntactic (for example, A bed/a clock belongs to/doesn't belong to the furniture "침대는/시계는 가구에 속한다/속하지 않는다") and lexical negation (for example, A tiger/a butterfly has/doesn't have a tail "호랑이는/나비는 꼬리가 있다/없다") using an ERP(Event-related potentials) technique and a truth-value verification task. 23 Korean native speakers were employed for the whole experiment and 15's brain responses (out of 23) were recorded for the ERP analysis. The behavioral results (i.e. verification task scores) show that there is universal pattern of the accuracy and response time for verification process: True-Affirmative (high accuracy and short latency) > False-Affirmative > False-Negated > True-Negated. However, the components (early N400 & P600) reflecting the immediate processing of a negation operator were observed only in lexical negation. Moreover, the ERP patterns reflecting an effect of truth value were not identical: N400 effect was observed in the true condition compared to the false condition in the lexically negated sentences, whereas Positivity effect (like early P600) was observed in the false condition compared to the true condition in the syntactically negated sentences. In conclusion, the form and location of negation operator varied by languages and negation types influences the strategy and pattern of online negation processing, however, the final representation resulting from different computational processing of negation appears to be language universal and is not directly affected by negation types.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.123-143
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• 2011

At what point in the process of speech production are gestures involved? According to the Lexical Retrieval Hypothesis, gestures are involved in the lexicalization in the formulating stage. According to the Information Packaging Hypothesis, gestures are involved in the conceptual planning of massages in the conceptualizing stage. We investigated these hypotheses, using the game situation in a TV program that induced the players to involve in both lexicalization and conceptualization simultaneously. The transcription of the verbal utterances was augmented with all arm and hand gestures produced by the players. Coverbal gestures were classified into two types of gestures: lexical gestures and motor gestures. As a result, concrete words elicited lexical gestures significantly more frequently than abstract words, and abstract words elicited motor gestures significantly more frequently than concrete words. The difficulty of conceptualization in concrete words was significantly correlated with the amount of lexical gestures. However, the amount of words and the word frequency were not correlated with the amount of both gestures. This result supports the Information Packaging Hypothesis. Most of all, the importance of motor gestures was inferred from the result that abstract words elicited motor gestures more frequently rather than concrete words. Motor gestures, which have been considered as unrelated to verbal production, were excluded from analysis in many gestural studies. This study revealed motor gestures seemed to be connected to the abstract conceptualization.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.505-512
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• 1997

문자로 표기된 단어의 의미를 파악 과정에 음운 정보가 개입하는지를 결정하기 위해 3 개의 실험을 실시하였다. 예컨대, [동닙 신문]과 [목립 신문]을 제시하고 이들이 구(句)가 성립되는지를 판단케 한 실험 1에서는 [동닙 신문]을 "독립 신문"으로 오판한 확률이 [목립 신문]을 "독립 신문"으로 오판한 확률보다 낮았다. [국립]과 [공립] 그리고 [궁닙]과 [공립]을 각각 차례로 제시하고, 두 번째 제시된 단어("공립")를 명명하는 데 소요된 시간을 측정한 실험 2에서는, 앞서 제시된 [궁닙]이 뒤에 제시되는 [공립]의 명명을 다소 용이하게 하였지만 그 정도는 미미하였으며, 앞서 제시된 [국립]이 [공립]의 명명을 촉진시킨 것에 크게 못 미쳤다. 실험 2에서와 동일한 자극 재료에다, 명명과제 대신 어휘판단 과제를 이용한 실험 3에서는 "국립"과 동음인 비단어 [궁닙]이 [정립]보다는 [공립]의 인식을 촉진시켰지만, [국립]이 [공립]인식을 촉진시진 정도에는 크게 못미쳤다. 이들 결과를 종합하면, 음운 정보는 의미 파악에 부수적인 도움 정도만 제공한다는 결론이 도출된다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.224-231
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• 2019

The current paper was conducted to unravel the influence of affect induction as a background emotion in the process of cognitive task to judge the degree of sequence in groups with or without anxiety symptoms. Four types of affect induction and two sequential task types were used as within-subject variables, and two types of college students groups classified under the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) as a between-subject variable were selected to determine reaction times involving sequential judgment among the lexical relevance information. DmDx5 was used to present a series of stimuli and elicit a response from subjects. Repeated measured ANOVA analyses revealed that reaction times and error rates were significantly larger with anxiety participants compared to the normal group regardless of affect and task types. Within-subject variable effects found that specific affect type (sorrow condition) and number-related task type showed a more rapid response compared to other affect types and magnitude-related task type, respectively. In sum, these findings confirmed the difference in tendency with reaction time and error rates that varied as a function of accompanying affect types as well as anxiety level and task types suggesting the that underlying background affect plays a major role in processing affect-cognitive association tasks.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.91-107
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• 2014

The syllable frequency effect is defined as the inhibitory effect that words starting with high frequency syllable generate a longer lexical decision latency and a larger error rate than words starting with low frequency syllable do. Researchers agree that the reason of the inhibitory effect is the interference from syllable neighbors sharing a target's first syllable at the lexical level and the degree of the interference effect correlates with the number of syllable neighbors or stronger syllable neighbors which have a higher word frequency. However, although the syllable frequency can be classified as the syllable type and token frequency, previous studies in visual word recognition have used the syllable frequency without the classification. Recently Conrad, Carreiras, & Jacobs (2008) demonstrated that the syllable type frequency might reflect a sub-lexical processing level including matching from letters to syllables and the syllable token frequency might reflect competitions between a target and higher frequency words of syllable neighbors in the whole word lexical processing level. Therefore, the present study investigated their proposals using word naming tasks. Generally word naming tasks are more sensitive to sub-lexical processing. Thus, the present study expected a facilitative effect of high syllable type frequency and a null effect of high syllable token frequency. In Experiment 1, words starting with high syllable type frequency generated a faster naming latency than words starting with low syllable type frequency with holding syllable token frequency of them. In Experiment 2, high syllable token frequency also created a shorter naming time than low syllable token frequency with holding their syllable type frequency. For that reason, we rejected the propose of Conrad et al. and suggested that both type and token syllable frequency could relate to the sub-lexical processing.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.3819-3828
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• 2015

The present study discusses some of important issues in the word recognition such as the roles of the form(orthographic & phonologic) and semantic information by investigating the processes of Korean heteronym. The priming paradigm has been applied to see whether or not there would be facilitatory effect from form and/or semantic information. In experiment 1, orthographically-related or phonologically-related prime stimuli were presented and a lexical decision task for Korean heteronym was conducted. The same procedure was applied for the experiment 2, except the prime stimulus which was semantically-related. The results showed that orthographic and phonologic information did not influence the processing of the heteronym while semantic information facilitated its processing, suggesting that the semantic information plays an important role in the processes of the Korean heteronym.