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must also build a science of learning organizations--grounded principles for how the organizations
responsible foreducation can themselves learn to behave differently and perform more effectively.
2034 Keynote
Chair: Merry Bullock, USA
Language and cognition: A cross-language perspective, Hsuan-Chih Chen, Department of
Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Most research on language and cognition has been carried out using materials in English or other
European languages, and only a small amount has been addressed to non-European languages.
Because there are striking differences between European and non-European languages, it is by no
means self-evident that the same cognitive processes underlie both language groups. Thus, to
build a genuinely comprehensive theory of language processing, it is important and useful to carry
out cross-language research. East Asian languages, due to their distinctive structures, provide
challenging opportunities to explore both language-specific processes and the universality of
theories developed from the study of European languages. Given its importance in developing
universal theories, recent research on processing major East Asian languages will be reviewed in
this talk.
2035 Keynote
Chair: Xiaolin Zhou, China
Subprocesses of supervisory control in willed thought and action, Tim Shallice, Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Functional imaging studies, particularly ones on episodic memory, have suggested the existence of
partially separable functions for different regions of prefrontal cortex. A neuropsychological study
on rule induction will be described where certain manipulations were stimulated by the above
studies. They lead to converging conclusions concerning the relations of left and right dorsolateral
prefrontal cortex in active schema elicitation when schema are not triggered by environmental
stimuli, and in monitoring and checking the appropriateness of the behaviour the schema
operations actually produce. The empirical evidence will be set within a theoretical framework
based on developments of the Supervisory System model.
2036 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
The internationalization of psychology
Convener and Chair: J.G. Adair, Canada
2036.1 Internationalization of psychological research, J.G. Adair, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Internationalization of psychological research is conceptualized as the process by which
researchers from a widening distribution of countries become contributors to the world’s
psychological literature. As the discipline is introduced, attention focuses on the development of
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