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observers’ evaluation of a TV lecture. In Experiment 1, the affection contrast effect was observed
with the photographs of famous people as the subliminal stimuli. Experiment 2 revealed that the
affection contrast effect depended on where the subliminal stimuli were displayed. This implies a
possibility of the hemisphere lateralization of the affection priming effect. Experiment 3 showed
that even the facial expression of the subliminal face would induce the affection priming effect.
All three experiments showed an interaction effect between subject gender and the manipulation
of subliminal stimuli.
3004.5 Separating orthographical from phonological processing during a covert lexical task,
S.H.A. Chen 1 , E. Possing 2 , K. McKiernan 2 , J. Kaufman 2 , B. Ward 2 , L. Buchanan 3 , C.
Westbury 3 , J.R. Binder 2 , 1 Stanford University, USA; 2 Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
WI, USA; 3 University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
This study delineated orthographical from phonological processing by incorporating
difficult-to-pronounce but orthographically rich bigram-letter-strings in an implicit visual word
task. Subjects underwent fMRI while performing a feature-detection-task on consonants, bigrams,
pseudowords and words. Contrast of consonant with word/pseudoword conditions replicated
previous findings of left-lateralized activations in prefrontal, lateral-temporal and supramarginal
cortices. Phonological processes (bigrams versus pseudowords/words) showed left frontal
(BA45/47), anterior-STG (BA22) and posterior-MTG (BA21) activations. Orthographic processes,
extracted from consonants versus bigram-string contrast, revealed left ITG (BA37) and bilateral
SMG/IPS (BA40/7) activations. These findings suggest that highly interactive orthographic and
phonologic cortical networks can be modulated independently by manipulating statistical
properties of stimulus-strings.
3004.6 The role of attention in Chinese character recognition, M.Y. Wang, Soochow Univeristy,
Taipei, China
This study examines how attention is deployed in Chinese character recognition. An apparent
motion detection task is devised in which either the left or the right radical of a Chinese character
produces an apparent movement toward the lateral direction. The RT of movement direction
judgment was faster for phonetic than semantic radicals. This phonetic radical advantage occurs
only when the apparent motion detection task was followed by a lexical decision or naming task.
The implication for models of Chinese character recognition is discussed.
3005 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Action memory: The enactment effect from real life to laboratory
Convener and Chair: R. Kormi-Nouri, Sweden
3005.1 Action memory in elderly bilinguals, S. Moniri, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
Sweden
This study's goal was to compare action memory performance of 170 monolinguals and 334
bilinguals in three adult age groups: middle-aged (35-45), young-old (50-65), and old-old (70-80)
at two measurement occasions in a longitudinal study. The tests were free recall, cued recall (cues:
verb or category) and recognition of 32 sentences. The results revealed in all condition there was:
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