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well as some correlated elements of creativity as a general capacity. Based on the findings, a
theoretical cognitve model has been formulated. Finally some suggestions have been made for
identifying creative processes as well as their development and improvement.
4148.4 Preliminary study on relationship between creativity and category matching speed,
Zhiling Zou 1 , Jiannong Shi 2 , 1 Psychology school, Southwest Normal University, China, China,
2
Institute of psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
104 students of first grade in middle school (aged 11-13) were administered to the Intelligence test,
Williams Creativity Test, Unusual Usages Test and Category Matching tasks to explore the
relationship among intelligence, creativity and the speed of category matching. The stimuli in
category matching task were divided into tow groups: typical or untypical. Results showed that:
There is significant corelationship between intelligence and Category Matching Speed of both
typical and untypical samples; But the relationship between creativity and Category Matching
Speed was affected by samples typicality---reaction time of typical samples, rather than untypical
samples, was significantly related to creativity.
4149 ORAL
Language, reading and communication
Chair: Sven Mattys, UK
4149.1 Detecting pauses in speech reflects lexical-semantic on-line integration, Sven Mattys,
University of Bristol, UK
We show that a task as simple as detecting silent pauses in speech can inform us about the on-line
integration of lexical and semantic information during speech comprehension. Listeners were not
only slower at detecting 200-ms pauses inserted in words with high than low lexical-semantic
involvement, but they also showed brain correlates of pauses as early as 115ms following pause
onset, and effects of context and lexicality well before pause offset. These results suggest that
lexical and semantic processes are highly interactive and their integration occurs rapidly during
speech comprehension.
4149.2 An experimental research on the visual image effect on metaphor understanding, Asuka
Terai, Saori Hirose, Naoko Kuriyama, Masanori Nakagawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Japan
The purpose of this research is to elucidate how a visual image influences on metaphor
understanding represented in the form of "A is like B." In the experiment, the picture of term B
was presented as a temporary stimulus in a working memory just before metaphor understanding,
and the influence of the picture presentation on metaphor understanding was measured. Two kinds
of pictures (one promoting metaphor understanding, and the other impeding it) were used. The
result showed that a presentation of impeding pictures inhibited metaphor understanding while it
was difficult to accelerate metaphor understanding by a presentation of promoting pictures.
4149.3 Validating a test for reading comprehension of Chinese children, Svend Kreiner, Dept.
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