Chinese Symbols Research Articles

Age Inequalities in Recognition Memory: Effects of Stimulus Presentation Time and List Repetitions

It has been suggested that age-related slowing in the execution of mental operations in time-limited visual information processing tasks can affect subsequent memory performance. To investigate this proposal, recognition memory for Chinese symbols displayed in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) was assessed in 30 young adults and 33 older adults. The effects of presentation times (500, 1000, 2000, 2500, 3000, and 6000 ms) on target recognition were examined across six study-test trials for each participant. Recognition accuracy was higher for young adults than for older adults, especially at the shorter stimulus durations. Analysis of the time-accuracy functions describing the stimulus durations and amount of repetitions required to equate the performance of younger and older adults indicated that a limited-time mechanism provided an incomplete account for age-related differences in memory for rapidly presented information.

Introducing Professor Nikki Holbrook, Stress Signaling and Aging Section Editor

Introducing Professor Nikki Holbrook, Stress Signaling and Aging Section Editor

A phonetic labeling method for mat database processing†

This paper presents a semi‐automatic phonetic labeling method for processing in the MAT (Mandarin across Taiwan) speech database. MAT speech data are collected through the telephone networks. Each utterance has been transcribed into Chinese characters and Pinyin symbols. The proposed phonetic labeling method will mark the syllable and sub‐syllable boundaries in an utterance. Phonetic symbols are assigned to each segmented syllable. The segmentation process is accomplished by using hidden Markov modeling (HMM) and Viterbi decoding. The accuracy of syllable segmentation is detected by measuring the syllable length and the distance of a syllable from its state models. The experimental results show that the proposed labeling method can achieve segmentation accuracy around 90% for an allowed tolerance of 16 ms.

New transformation of control points in scaling discrete polygons

A new mapping transformation method is presented to scale the control points of discrete polygons to locate the transformed coordinate of the control points as accurately as possible. In traditional methods, the area of the control point is regarded as zero and can be suitable only for scaling analog polygons (or a single polygon). By using ourproposed technique, the ratio of black points to totalpoints in resultant polygons can closely approach the original discrete polygons. Our technique eliminates the mapping distortion by taking into account the topology relation among the discrete polygons. We apply our technique to Chinese fonts, English fonts, and mathematical expression symbols, and we compare it to three other transformation techniques.

A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought. By Wolfram Eberhard. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. 332 pp. $29.00.

A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought. By Wolfram Eberhard. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. 332 pp. $29.00.

A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought

Explains the esoteric meanings and connections of more than 400 important Chinese symbols. Their use and development in Chinese literature, customs and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and precisely.

Wolfram Eberhard : A dictionary of Chinese symbols: hidden symbols in Chinese life and thought. Translated from the German by G. L. Campbell. 332 pp. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986

Wolfram Eberhard : A dictionary of Chinese symbols: hidden symbols in Chinese life and thought. Translated from the German by G. L. Campbell. 332 pp. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986

Some Early Chinese Symbols of Duality

Previous articleNext article No AccessSome Early Chinese Symbols of DualitySchuyler CammannSchuyler Cammann Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by History of Religions Volume 24, Number 3Feb., 1985 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/462998 Views: 7Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1985 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Scott Dams The cosmobiological balance of the emotional and spiritual worlds: Phenomenological structuralism in traditional Chinese medical thought, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 20, no.11 (Mar 1996): 83–123.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118752JAMES A. RYAN THE COMPATIBILIST PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM OF SHAO YONG, Journal of Chinese Philosophy 20, no.33 (Sep 1993): 279–291.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.1993.tb00176.xSchuyler V. R. Cammann The Eight Trigrams: Variants and Their Uses, History of Religions 29, no.44 (Oct 2015): 301–317.https://doi.org/10.1086/463201Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann Spatial Organization of Ancient Chinese Texts (Preliminary Remarks), (): 3–47.https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2321-9_1

Chinese and Western Religious Symbols as Used in Taiwan

Chinese and Western Religious Symbols as Used in Taiwan

Chinese Symbols

Chinese Symbols

Chinese Symbols

Chinese Symbols

Chinese Symbols

Chinese Symbols

Searle's argument is just a set of Chinese symbols

Searle's argument is just a set of Chinese symbols

Chinese Symbols and Superstitions

Chinese Symbols and Superstitions

Early Chinese Symbols and Literature: Vestiges and Speculations

Early Chinese Symbols and Literature: Vestiges and Speculations

Florance Waterbury,Early Chinese Symbols and Literature: Vestiges and Speculations

(1943). Florance Waterbury, Early Chinese Symbols and Literature: Vestiges and Speculations. The Art Bulletin: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 281-284.

The Origins of the Alphabet

The alphabet is the most highly developed, the most convenient and adaptable form of writing. It consists of a number of purely conventional signs or symbols called letters, each one denoting a single sound, at least theoretically. Alphabetic writing is now universally adopted by civilized peoples; its use is acquired in childhood with ease–it is obviously much easier to learn 22, 24 or 26 signs than, for example, 45,000, or 10,000, or even 3000 Chinese symbols. The alphabet may also be passed from one language to another without great difficulty. It is no longer an exclusive prerogative of the priestly or other privileged classes, as ancient ideographic scripts were. Education has become largely a matter of reading and writing and is possible for all.

Recognition of Chinese Symbols

Recognition of Chinese Symbols