This paper reports the results of an experiment investigating the effect of induced anger on interpretational bias using the homophone spelling task. Four groups of participants experienced anger, anxiety, happy or neutral mood inductions and then completed the homophone spelling task. Participants who experienced anger and anxiety inductions reported significantly more threat/neutral homophone...

We explored the impact of operand format (digit, word, pseudo-homophone) on single-digit addition and multiplication. Format manipulations are of theoretical interest because models of arithmetic knowledge differ with respect to predicted format effects. Latencies were shortest when operands were digits, and longest when they were pseudo-homophones. However, there was also an interaction of pro...

Syllable-to-word (STW) conversion is a main task of Chinese Language Processing and a fundamental to syllable/speech understanding. The two major problems of STW conversion are syllable-word segmentation and homophone selection. This paper presents a word pair model (WPM) that can effectively perform homophone selection and syllable-word segmentation to improve Chinese input systems. The STW ex...

OBJECTIVES To identify the cortical areas engaged during Chinese word processing using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and to examine the reliability and reproducibility of fMRI for localization of functional areas in the human brain. METHODS FMRI data were collected on 8 young, right-handed, native Chinese speakers during performance of Chinese synonym and homophone judgment tas...

Based on the concepts of bzd~rectwnal converswn and automahc evaluatzon, we propose two user. adaptation mechanzsms, character-preference learn. in9 and pseudo-word learning, for resolving Chinese homophone ambiguities in syllable-to.character conversion. The 1991 Umted Daily corpus of approximately 10 million Chinese characters ts used for extraction of 10 reporter-specific article databases a...

G. Lukatela and M. T. Turvey (1994a) showed that at a 57-ms prime-presentation duration, the naming of a visually presented target word (frog) is primed not only by an associate word (toad) but also by a homophone (towed) and a pseudohomophone (tode) of the associate. At a 250-ms prime presentation, priming with the homophone was no longer observed. In Experiment 1, the authors replicated these...