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1076.3 The role of sentence boundaries in discourse comprehension, Aitao Lu, South China
Normal University, China
To study the role of sentence boundaries, we carried out four experiments. In Experiment 1,
readers were delayed in noticing a contradiction on a target line when the sentence continued onto
a post-target line. In Experiment 2, target line was an intact sentence. The result demonstrated that
there was no significant difference between the consistent version and inconsistent version. we can
conclude that sentence boundaries are important in reading. The result of Experiment 3
demonstrated that period was sufficient to facilitate the integration of related background
information. In Experiment 4, the semicolon made no difference in integration of current sentence.
1076.4 The effect of multiple dimension in the Chinese character stroop-like tasks, Xiangkui
Zhang, Northeast Normal University, China
Using Chinese characters as stimuli to test 120 Ss by a series of Chinese Stroop tasks referring to
the verbal, the arithmetic and the imaginal symbolic systems. The results indicated that the speed
of processing was largely influenced by the multiple physical matches, and the control of
processing was mostly affected by the given dimensions;In addition to this, subjects'performance
was superior in the analytic aspects of the stimuli in the number and the figural-character tasks
than in the global. This superior performance was attributed the subjects'advanced visual analytic
ability as well as to the meaningful effect of the stimulus itself.
1076.5 Unconscious information processing of emotions: Non-linear processing, Maurits Van
den Noort, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Neuroimaging techniques (ERP, PET, and fMRI) have made breakthroughs in the field of
conscious emotional processing possible. However, people process most emotional information at
an unconscious level and this influences our daily life (Chen & Bargh, 1999). What are the limits
of unconscious information processing? I will present individual (Radin, 2000; Bierman & Scholte,
2002) and collective data (Nelson, 2003), which is of great importance since it could lead to the
development of terrorist attack- and earthquake warning systems (Van den Noort, 2003). Is it
perhaps possible to come to one final theory?
1076.6 Experimental study on the creative imagination of 5-grade pupils, Cao Gui Kang 1 ,
Zhang Qing Lin 1 , Shi Hui Ying 1 , Liang Jing 2 , 1 Southwest Normal University, China; 2 Hunter
College, China
By manipulating on the cognitive process of children's creative imagination, we got the following
results: With the given materials, children’s creativity scores were the best by restricting the
category of interpretation or description (not the imagination) on the results of imagination.
Children’s creativity scores were comparatively good when restricting the category of imagination
not the category of interpretation or description on the results of imagination. Children’s grades
were the lowest without any restriction. How the children were familiar with the category of
restriction affected their creativity scores of imagination. There was sex difference in different
imagination tasks.
1076.7 Effects of mood states on speed of inromation processing, Javad Hatami, Reza
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