Conference Presentations by Jon-Fan Hu
To establish the implicit associations of stimulus-response connection in a word color discrimina... more To establish the implicit associations of stimulus-response connection in a word color discrimination task, the participants have to learn the patterns of actions and feel the weights of pictoral objects through successive trials of vertifying the statements in the sentences or pictures. Two particular response keys were arranged to represent the actions and the word colors respectively, and the objects having different weight values associate the specific actions. The crtical words in the word-color discrimination task are related to the feeling of weights from the imagined actions given by the experimental instruction. Praticipants’ mission of Experiment 1 was to imagine that they move objects up-staris or down-stairs, and the mission of Experiment 2 was to imagine that they exchange objects with others. The stimulus-response compatibility effects in Experiment 1 were found related to the directions of actions, and the effects in Experiment 2 were constrained by the feeling of weight after imagining the actions. The overall findings show that the patterns of moving objects could shape the comprehension of imagined situation differently. We suggest a hypothetical “situation modular” in the information processing model of stimulus-response compatibility for the function of creating embodied representations that participants can use to acquire the implicit associations among concepts.
Papers by Jon-Fan Hu
Cognitive Science, 2014
Reliability and validity of the Empathy Quotient: The Chinese version Yong-Ru Hsiao National Chen... more Reliability and validity of the Empathy Quotient: The Chinese version Yong-Ru Hsiao National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Yueh Lin Tsai National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Yu-Chi Huang National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Jon-Fan Hu National Cheng Kung Univeristy, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC Abstract: The purpose of this study is to develop a Chinese version of Empathy Quotient (Baron-Cohen, 2004). The original version of Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report questionnaire including cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. We translated the Empathy Quotient into Chinese and asked 360 subjects to fill up the questionnaire. The results of confirmatory factor analyses showed that the factor loading does not fit exactly with the three-factor structure proposed by Lawrence et al. (2004). But the exploratory factor analysis revealed an alternative three-factor structure. Compared with other language versions of the Empathy Quotient, factor 1, named cognitive empa...
Cognitive Science, 2014
The Role of Theory of Mind in Teenagers’ Humor Comprehension Yong-Ru Hsiao National Cheng Kung Un... more The Role of Theory of Mind in Teenagers’ Humor Comprehension Yong-Ru Hsiao National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Yueh Lin Tsai National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Yu-Chi Huang National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Shih-Ching Lu National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Chia-Jou Chuang National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Ya-Lun Liang National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Yu-Chen Chan National Tsing Hua University, Institute of Learning Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan Hsueh-Chih Chen National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan Jon-Fan Hu National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Abstract: In Howe’ s study (2002), humor originates from perceiving the thoughts of the subject in the humor. We assume that humor and theory of mind (ToM), the ability to infer one’s metal states, could have some relationships. However, the relationships are not clearly known. The present research is aimed to explore the issue by using ToM-jokes, non-...
Eye Movement Patterns Reveal How Oriental People Group Objects
Comparing the social judgements between American and Taiwanese cultures
It is an important topic to investigate the mechanisms of sequential patterns of behaviors which ... more It is an important topic to investigate the mechanisms of sequential patterns of behaviors which are assumed to be related to variety of human cognitive function, including producing linguistic utterances or the automatic motor movement. They all reflect certain elaborate mental processes behind the scene in our mind. Even though Jordan (1986) built up a generic recurrent connectionist model trying to simulate the serial order of behavior, there is evident that it lacks for detailed formulization regarding how to determine appropriate values of parameters in the network, such as the connection weights and bias for node activation. Objective This study aims on analyzing the original version of Jordan's (1986) network and tries to formularize explicitly the parameters for the computational processes in equations. Further attempts are to propose a proper determinist numeric system which can be used to simulate desired sequence of behavior.
Cognitive Science, 2017
The present research aimed to investigate children’s comprehension of Chinese classifiers. Sixty-... more The present research aimed to investigate children’s comprehension of Chinese classifiers. Sixty-five Chinesespeaking children between the ages of 4 and 6 recruited in Taiwan participated in the experiment. The results indicate that children can make generalization based on their understanding of classifiers instead of solely relying on classifier-noun associations. The results also show that the participants performed equally on both shape-based and feature-shared classifiers, which suggests that children not only use shape salience to learn Chinese classifiers, but are also sensitive to other relations between objects classified by the same Chinese classifier. Besides, the complex patterns in the results imply that in spite of the exposure to classifiers, the semantic transparency between classifiers and objects varies considerably in both semantic types of classifier, which might be the primary reason that some classifiers are more difficult for children to acquire.
Cognitive Science, 2014
Learning Chinese Characters Approach Based on the Association between Character Components Chung-... more Learning Chinese Characters Approach Based on the Association between Character Components Chung-Ching Wang National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Yu-Lin Chang National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan Hsueh-Chih Chen National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan Ming-Liang Wei National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Yi-Ling Chung National Cheng Kung Univeristy, Tainan, Taiwan Jon-Fan Hu National Cheng Kung Univeristy, Tainan, Taiwan Abstract: Chinese has been recognized as one of most major languages in the world, and many people are learning Chinese; thus a method for learning Chinese characters is a significant issue. Many studies have developed various approaches to learning Chinese characters to demonstrate to learners how to read Chinese characters. In Chinese, the character components can offer learners with phonological and morphological meanings similar to those of the prefix and suffix in English. Additionally, when the components have strong con...
Cognitive Science, 2015
Embodied cognition is a theory that emphasizes the importance of sensorimotor experiences for cog... more Embodied cognition is a theory that emphasizes the importance of sensorimotor experiences for cognition. Therefore, the present study focused on how the facial expression manipulation influences the property judgments toward Chinese emotional words. 41 college students were divided into “biting the pen with smile” group and control group to rate the same 26 Chinese emotional words chosen from a Chinese Emotions Corpora (Cho, Chen, and Cheng, 2013). After having the instructed expression, subjects evaluated several semantic dimensions of emotional words immediately. The findings show that the “biting the pen with smile” group has higher rating values for dimension ‘valence’, ‘frequency’ and ‘continuance’ for the ‘disgust’ words, and the dimension ‘valence’ for the ‘angry’ words. The study found that positive facial expression indeed influenced the semantic properties of negative words, not the positive emotional words. The results are useful for investigating how word meaning is buil...
Cognitive Science, 2015
Chinese Lexicon Project (Sze et al., 2014) summarized lexical decision response data of 2,500 Chi... more Chinese Lexicon Project (Sze et al., 2014) summarized lexical decision response data of 2,500 Chinese characters. The original analysis has showed that the newest character frequency norm accounts the most variance of reaction times. The variance of these response data are analyzed in terms of the character frequency, strokes, and structures in use of the norms from Taiwan. First of all, simplified characters ranked as high frequency have greater performance on reaction times, but these characters ranked as lower frequency in traditional scripts have overestimated response points. Secondly many simplified characters are transformed from complex to simple, and strokes are substantial discrepancy between Chinese scripts. Finally, stuructre of character takes a large proportion of variance in the response data. The covariance of structure and character frequency also shows a significant trend. Our current work reveals some critical thinkings on using mega-data as the approach to study ...
The roles of configuration and orthography in Chinese recognition: a developmental approach
An Unsupervised Connectionist Modelling of Young Infants’ Categorisation Processes Jon-Fan Hu (jo... more An Unsupervised Connectionist Modelling of Young Infants’ Categorisation Processes Jon-Fan Hu ([email protected]) & Kim Plunkett ([email protected]) Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford South Parks Road, OX1 3UD, Oxford, UK Introduction Method The problem of how young infants form categorical representation is one of main interests to the students in the area of human development. Following Rosch’s (1975) analytical approach of concept formation, Younger (1985) showed that 10-month-olds could form one or two visual categories due to the experimental manipulation where the infants experienced the restricted or full range of feature covariance. The training and testing schemes in this simulation study were designed to mimic the same procedure of Younger’s (1985) two experimental conditions. A fully connected two layer SOM network was constructed embedded with Kohonen competitve learning algorithm containing 4 and 143 nodes in the input layer and ou...
The Effect of Facial Expression Bearer's Gender on the Assimilation for Emotion Judgement
Cognitive Science, 2018
Cognitive Science, 2017
Although “mutual exclusivity (ME)” is the term to refer to the behavior that infants map a novel ... more Although “mutual exclusivity (ME)” is the term to refer to the behavior that infants map a novel label onto a novel object rather than a familiar object, two studies, using preferential looking paradigm, aimed to investigate whether infants’ ME is based on preference to novelty or non-name of an object. In Study 1, 18-month-olds were tested on 2 conditions: familiarobject/novel-object trials with known label and familiar-object/novel-object trials with unknown label. The infants preferred to novel objects before naming but no naming effect found for both conditions. In Study 2, 18-month-olds in the same two conditions as Study 1 were pre-familiarized to both of novel and familiar objects. The results showed that the naming effects were found for both conditions, indicating that ME occurred. The findings of the present studies suggest that pre-familiarization could be used to validate if 18-month-olds’ ME response is based on non-name preference of an object.
The Impact of Contextual Cues on Infant Categorization
Cognitive Science, 2012
Cognitive Science, 2014
A Self-Organizing Map Connectionist Modeling for Cross-Situational Word Learning in Early Infants... more A Self-Organizing Map Connectionist Modeling for Cross-Situational Word Learning in Early Infants Ming-Liang Wei National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Chung-Ching Wang National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Yu-Chen Chang-Chien National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan I-Chen Chen National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Lee-Xieng Yang National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan Jon-Fan Hu National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Abstract: Infants receive constant pairing of acoustic and visual stimuli across various contexts during their daily lives. In face of changing environmental experiences, disparate behavioral performance of infants mainly is not task-driven but mechanism- driven. However, the factual manner of how information is processed to develop cross-situational word learning is yet unclear. In the present study, SOM networks were firstly fed with the input of looking time for the learning phase and then the competi- tive layer of the...
Orthography and configuration on Chinese literacy acquisition: evidence from eye movement
Cognitive Science, 2013
The influence of biological cues on the patterns of categorization in non-mental retarded PDD
Cognitive Science, 2012
Embodied cognition is a theory that emphasizes the importance of sensorimotor experiences for cog... more Embodied cognition is a theory that emphasizes the importance of sensorimotor experiences for cognition. Therefore, the present study focused on how the facial expression manipulation influences the property judgments toward Chinese emotional words. 41 college students were divided into “biting the pen with smile” group and control group to rate the same 26 Chinese emotional words chosen from a Chinese Emotions Corpora (Cho, Chen, and Cheng, 2013). After having the instructed expression, subjects evaluated several semantic dimensions of emotional words immediately. The findings show that the “biting the pen with smile” group has higher rating values for dimension ‘valence’, ‘frequency’ and ‘continuance’ for the ‘disgust’ words, and the dimension ‘valence’ for the ‘angry’ words. The study found that positive facial expression indeed influenced the semantic properties of negative words, not the positive emotional words. The results are useful for investigating how word meaning is buil...
The Influence of Culture: Thematic versus Taxonomic Categorization
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