A week ago, I posted an ad on the Psychology Department board looking for a research assistant. One of Professor Chu's assistants contacted me. I was therefore able to attend the interdisciplinary colloquium held by the professors and grad students who use the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine for their research.
The topic presented this week was about how children response to semantically related/unrelated words in Chinese. One of their results found that, compared to older children, younger children relied more on the right hemisphere when processing semantically related words in Chinese. I found the study very inspiring, but they didn't include reading level as a factor in their study though.
Professors from psychology, neuro-science, medicine, and even economics were there. I was fortunate to get the chance talking with several leading scholars in the area of brain image research in Taiwan. Professor Tseng from the Medical school invited me to visit the fMRI lab. I'm looking forward to it.
Walking on campus put me in mind of my youth in NTU. The campus is big and flat. Many students bike, then and now. I remembered the old days, cycling around campus, singing loudly; I remembered the old friends, and my golden years at the NTU campus, in the Taipei city.
The humble Fu Bell, the icon of NTU
On the Coconut Tree Boulvard
Toward the Main Library(Photograph courtesy of S.C. Lin, 2002)
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