英汉双语者二语口语产生中音韵编码过程的同化机制

本研究运用事件相关电位技术,结合时空微态分割分析法,考察英汉双语者二语口语产生过程中音韵编码过程的同化与顺应机制。研究中采用图词干扰即时命名任务,比较英汉双语者的汉语产生过程中音韵编码的加工单元与汉语母语者的汉语产生过程还是与英语母语者的英语产生过程的特点类似。反应时结果发现汉汉组、英汉组与英英组都出现显著的音节效应。事件相关电位的结果发现英汉双语者的汉语产生过程中出现了音素效应,与其英语产生过程的特点类似,音素效应在英语和汉语的产生过程中都出现在图画呈现后的200～250 ms之间,而汉语母语者的汉语产生过程中仅发现了音节效应,出现在250～300 ms之间。时空微态分割分析发现英汉双语者在汉语产生的音韵编码过程与英语母语者在英语产生过程所对应的脑电微态成分相同,仅在持续时间上存在显著差异;其微态成分不同于汉语母语者的汉语产生过程。上述结果表明英汉双语者汉语产生的音韵编码过程与英语作为母语时的产生过程相似,而与汉语作为母语时的产生过程不同。英汉双语者的汉语产生过程采用了母语同化机制。     

The ultimate challenge: prove B. F. Skinner wrong

For much of his career, B. F. Skinner displayed the optimism that is often attributed to behaviorists. With time, however, he became less and less sanguine about the power of behavior science to solve the major problems facing humanity. Near the end of his life he concluded that a fair consideration of principles revealed by the scientific analysis of behavior leads to pessimism about our species. In this article I discuss the case for Skinner's pessimism and suggest that the ultimate challenge for behavior analysts today is to prove Skinner wrong.     

新世纪心理学发展走向的探索

在过去的一个世纪里心理学有了长足的进步,这主要体现在心理学研究的技术和研究的领域有了很大的发展。随着相关学科的技术发展,心理学的研究也越来越深入,越来越具体,但更多地倾向于技术化的研究,往往忽视了人的整个心灵的探索,这无疑违背了心理学发展的初衷,也影响了这门学科的进步。新世纪的曙光就要洒落我们居住的地球,我们也更加关注自身的心灵,关心自己内心的感受。因此,对人生活的意义和价值研究及提高人类精神生活质量更加受到研究者的重视。     

The Causal Structure of Evolutionary Theory

One contentious debate in the philosophy of biology is that between the statisticalists and causalists. The former understand core evolutionary concepts like fitness and selection to be mere statistical summaries of underlying causal processes. In this view, evolutionary changes cannot be causally explained by selection or fitness. The causalist side, on the other hand, holds that populations can change in response to selection—one can cite fitness differences or driftability in causal explanations of evolutionary change. But, on the causalist side, it is often not clear how, precisely, one should understand these causes. Thus, much more could be said about what sort of causes fitness and driftability are. In this paper, I borrow Dretske's distinction between structuring and triggering causes and I suggest that fitness and driftability are structuring causes of evolution.     

关于进化论的生命科学质疑

现代科学远未弄清楚生命是什么,所以,肯定生命是偶然生成的观点是不符合时代的科学精神的。遗传变异不能产生新的物种,也没有证据表明基因突变导致生物进化产生了新物种。按照小群突变的新达尔文主义来推断人类进化,既缺乏事实根据,也有悖于逻辑推理。