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Cantonese and Mandarin, we found that people use L1 is faster than L2 to name the picture, and
Cantonese to Mandarin is slower than Mandarin to Cantonese. The results show that Mandarin is
the dominant concept accessing ways for the bilinguals.
1098.156Reflections on bilingual education in China from a psychology perspective, Hua-yu Tan,
South China Universty, China
In China, though bilingual education is still a fresh phenomenon, it has attracted wide-spread
attention. The author of this paper makes a brief introduction of bilingual education and discusses
some factors influencing the implementation of bilingual education in China from a psychology
perspective, such as students' emotion, ages, mother tongue, learning strategies and the
relationship between bilingual education and the development of students' intelligence.
1098.157 Second language contrast acquisition and the impact of acculturation, Katherine
Yoshida, Janet F. Werker, the University of British Columbia, Canada
Languages have varying phonemic repertoires that contrast with one another to denote differences
of meaning (e.g., the /r/-/l/ contrast is not valid in Japanese). Infants are born able to discriminate
both native and non-native contrasts, yet by one-year only those in their native language continue
to be perceived (Werker & Tees, 1984). The subsequent perception of non-native contrasts
belonging to an ensuing language is less clearly understood. This work uses Cantonese-native ESL
speakers to investigate the acquisition of non-native (English-specific) contrasts. Results of the
English-Cantonese bilinguals will be discussed in the context of degree of acculturation to
mainstream Canadian culture.
1098.158 Adaptation to the facial expressions of emotion, Susumu Shibui, Kazuo Shigemasu,
The University of Tokyo, Japan
We investigated the categorization process of the facial expressions by means of the adaptation to
the facial expressions of emotion. Subjects judged the expressions of 200 ms test faces following 5
seconds viewing of an adaptation face. In the control condition, subjects judged only test faces.
The effects of adaptation were represented by the delays of RTs between the control condition and
the condition with adapt faces. The result suggested that the effect of adaptation was explained by
the categorical distances between the test faces and adapt faces. This is in line with the categorical
model of the facial expression.
1098.159 Dismissing-avoidant pattern of attachment related to facial mimicry, emotion regulation,
and empathy, Marianne Sonnby-Borgstrom, Peter Jonsson, Department of Psychology, Lund,
Sweden
Dismissing-avoidant individuals are assumed to repress anxiety, a disposition hypothesized to
interfere with facial mimicry and empathy. Mimicry (electromyography) was compared in
dismissing-avoidant and non-dismissing individuals. Happy or angry faces were exposed at
different levels of information processing. At the automatic level (56ms) dismissing-avoidant
participants showed “normal” corrugator responses (negative emotions) upon exposure to angry
faces. At the controlled level (2350 ms) they showed no corrugator response and "smiling
reactions” to angry faces, whereas the non-dismissing participants reacted with mimicking and
scored also significantly higher on emotional empathy. "Smiling" at the controlled level may be
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