Emotion development system by interacting with human EEG and natural scene understanding

In this paper, we propose a mental development system for understanding the emotional status of humans, and sharing emotions with human subjects. According to the relationship between emotional factors and characteristics of an image, we incorporate the fuzzy concept to extract emotional features using L^*C^*H^* color and orientation information. On the other hand, we also consider the EEG signals which are stimulated by natural stimuli to form the semantic emotional features as well. Emotionally relevant features are firstly clustered into two categories with degrees of belongingness to each cluster to initialize the membership functions of a neuro-fuzzy system. The IF-THEN rules of a neuro-fuzzy system to understand the positive and negative human emotions will be constructed by interacting with human. Then the system attempts to extend the number of understandable emotion. Through the time, the system sub-clusters the emotional features so that the number of membership function of the neuro-fuzzy network will increase to incorporate more complicated human expertise considering more human emotions. Using such a developmental process, the proposed system can develop a mental ability to understand more complex human emotions by mining the characteristics of emotional features and interacting with its environment.     

Imageability estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words

We provide imageability estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words (as supplementary materials that may be downloaded with the article from www.springerlink.com ). Imageability is a widely studied lexical variable believed to influence semantic and memory processes (see, e.g., Paivio, 1971). In addition, imageability influences basic word recognition processes (Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg, & Patterson, 1996). In fact, neuroimaging studies have suggested that reading high- and low-imageable words elicits distinct neural activation patterns for the two types e.g., Bedny & Thompson-Schill (Brain and Language 98:127-139, 2006; Graves, Binder, Desai, Conant, & Seidenberg NeuroImage 53:638-646, 2010). Despite the usefulness of this variable, imageability estimates have not been available for large sets of words. Furthermore, recent megastudies of word processing e.g., Balota et al. (Behavior Research Methods 39:445-459, 2007) have expanded the number of words that interested researchers can select according to other lexical characteristics (e.g., average naming latencies, lexical decision times, etc.). However, the dearth of imageability estimates (as well as those of other lexical characteristics) limits the items that researchers can include in their experiments. Thus, these imageability estimates for disyllabic words expand the number of words available for investigations of word processing, which should be useful for researchers interested in the influences of imageability both as an input and as an outcome variable.     

“投桃报李”——互惠理论的组织行为学研究述评

互惠是一种存在于各种社会文化中的人际交往规范.组织行为学中许多研究都是通过互惠理论来解释变量之间的内部作用机制.文章回顾并讨论了互惠的涵义,不同互惠类型的特点及互惠的测量方式.此外.还论述了不同类型互惠对社会交换方式产生的影响.依据现有的互惠研究成果,分析了互惠发挥影响的内在作用机制是通过:互惠各方的价值观、互惠过程中各方感知到的风险、各方冲突的程度这三种途径来实现的.最后,根据现有互惠理论的研究成果提出该领域的未来发展应从研究设计和研究内容两方面进行扩展.     

家庭心理治疗:一种科学的治疗理念

家庭心理治疗作为一种新的、科学的治疗理念正引起心理治疗专家和学者的普遍兴趣和关注.它着眼于家庭和家庭内部关系,把一种新的治疗理念引入了心理治疗领域.在介绍家庭心理治疗基本问题和国内外发展概况的基础上,论述其在中国存在和发展的必然性及可能性,旨在为我国家庭心理治疗的发展和应用提供参考.     

起始音素的特点对命名反应时记录的影响

通过对344个汉语单字词26名被试的平均命名反应时分析发现,起始音素不同的词的命名反应时之间存在差异,而且此差异在排除字频、获得年龄(Age of acquisition)、规则性、一致性、可表象性、笔画数、书面学习年龄、声旁成字频率等因素作用后仍然存在。起始音素为元音和浊辅音的字词比清辅音的字词反应时短,清辅音当中塞擦音反应时最长。讨论了这种差异的可能原因,并对字词命名实验提出了相关建议。     

颜色词素在词义不透明双字词中的语义激活

多词素词的心理表征和和词义激活已成为心理语言学领域的研究热点。目前主要有三种理论:词素分解储存模型、整词储存模型和混合表征模型。针对词义不透明词中词素与整词的关系,利用语义启动和色词干扰的实验范式,对颜色词素在词义不透明双字词中的语义激活进行了研究。结果表明,词义不透明双字词的词素与整词之间存在着心理资源竞争,表现出相互抑制的关系,它们的力量对比随时间变化而改变,出现此消彼长的趋势。研究还表明,多词素词中的词素加工,不仅受词素结构影响,也受词素本身性质影响。由于颜色词素的加工既涉及语义系统,也涉及知觉系统,所以虽然在多词素词中处于附加词素的地位,也具有加工上的优势。     

论心理学基本理论问题的研究

心理学的基本理论问题,是心理学上老大难问题,一直没有得到好好解决。这些问题比较复杂,不容易解决,不容易碰,但不能回避,不能不去碰它们。我国心理学要大步跨上去,要赶超世界先进水平,要很好地为社会主义现代化建设服务,非尽可能研究解决这些问题不可。     

Clothing: Communication, Compliance, and Choice

This study looks at some effects of five different styles of women's clothing: Formal Skirt, Formal Pants, Casual Skirt, Casual Pants, and Jeans. There were no significant differences in compliance to a request to fill out a questionnaire made by experimenters dressed in the five clothing styles, although experimenter age and sex effects were found. Ratings of photographs of the five dress styles indicate that a model was viewed by both male and female subjects as most happy, successful, feminine, interesting, attractive, intelligent, and wanted as a friend when wearing a Formal Skirt outfit and as least so when wearing Jeans. She was also seen as more active when wearing pants as compared with a skirt. Subjects' reasons for choosing what clothing to wear did not indicate that how one will appear to others is the major factor in clothing selection. It appears that clothing does communicate something about the wearer but may influence behavior toward her primarily in the absence of other information about her status.     

浅谈肿瘤器官特异性转移机制

肿瘤转移是一个复杂的过程,具有明显的器官倾向性。随着对肿瘤转移认识的不断深化,人们发现肿瘤特异性转移与肿瘤的异质性和靶器官的作用密切相关。     

医疗纠纷处理中若干伦理问题的思考

医疗纠纷的增势和处理难已成为众所周知的事实。但是,在医疗纠纷处理中存在着医患关系的信任性、医疗事故鉴定的公正性和经济裣的合理笥是思考的伦理问题。只要医患双方、乃至社会对诸如医疗行为是否等同于一般的服务行为、病人权益是否等同于消费者权益、医疗事故鉴定是不是医医相护、经济裣能不能实行等价赔偿原则、医疗差错要不要给予经济补偿等有效为统一的认识,就会有利于医疗纠纷的处理,有利于维护医患双方的合法权益,有利