Behavioral and Neuroimaging Evidence for Facial Emotion Recognition in Elderly Korean Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Frontotemporal Dementia

Park, Soowon,Kim, Taehoon,Shin, Seong A,Kim, Yu Kyeong,Sohn, Bo Kyung,Park, Hyeon-Ju,Youn, Jung-Hae,Lee, Jun-Young Frontiers Media S.A. 2017 FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE Vol.9 No.-

<P><B>Background:</B> Facial emotion recognition (FER) is impaired in individuals with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) when compared to healthy older adults. Since deficits in emotion recognition are closely related to caregiver burden or social interactions, researchers have fundamental interest in FER performance in patients with dementia.</P><P><B>Purpose:</B> The purpose of this study was to identify the performance profiles of six facial emotions (i.e., fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise, and happiness) and neutral faces measured among Korean healthy control (HCs), and those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), AD, and FTD. Additionally, the neuroanatomical correlates of facial emotions were investigated.</P><P><B>Methods:</B> A total of 110 (33 HC, 32 MCI, 32 AD, 13 FTD) older adult participants were recruited from two different medical centers in metropolitan areas of South Korea. These individuals underwent an FER test that was used to assess the recognition of emotions or absence of emotion (neutral) in 35 facial stimuli. Repeated measures two-way analyses of variance were used to examine the distinct profiles of emotional recognition among the four groups. We also performed brain imaging and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) on the participants to examine the associations between FER scores and gray matter volume.</P><P><B>Results:</B> The mean score of negative emotion recognition (i.e., fear, anger, disgust, and sadness) clearly discriminated FTD participants from individuals with MCI and AD and HC [<I>F</I>(3,106) = 10.829, <I>p</I> < 0.001, η<SUP>2</SUP> = 0.235], whereas the mean score of positive emotion recognition (i.e., surprise and happiness) did not. A VBM analysis showed negative emotions were correlated with gray matter volume of anterior temporal regions, whereas positive emotions were related to gray matter volume of fronto-parietal regions.</P><P><B>Conclusion:</B> Impairment of negative FER in patients with FTD is cross-cultural. The discrete neural correlates of FER indicate that emotional recognition processing is a multi-modal system in the brain. Focusing on the negative emotion recognition is a more effective way to discriminate healthy aging, MCI, and AD from FTD in older Korean adults.</P>

Comparative study of goal contents and goal characteristics between medical and business students

Soowon Park,Ji Eun Kim,Jun-Young Lee,Jongho Shin 한국의학교육학회 2016 Korean journal of medical education Vol.28 No.1

Purpose: Medical and business are one of the most popular majors among students, and both fields require intensive training to reach certain level of expertise. During the development of professionalism, goal can become a crucial role in psychological impetus. The purpose of this study is to compare goal contents, goal characteristics, and effect of goal characteristics on student’s major satisfaction between medical and business. Methods: A total of 193 undergraduate students (97 medical students, 96 business students) answered survey questions including goal contents, goal characteristics (goal autonomy, goal attainability, social value of goal) and satisfaction on their majors. Qualitative analysis of goal contents and quantitative analysis of goal characteristics, and their effects on student major satisfaction were performed. Results: Goal content analysis showed percentage of social concern goal was higher in medical students (25.8%) than business students (6.3%), whereas percentage of wealth goal was higher business students (24.0%) than medical students (3.1%). Among goal characteristics, goal attainability and social value of goal were higher in medical students than business students. In both groups, social value of goal was significantly predict major satisfaction. Conclusion: Goal contents and goal characteristics are different between medical and business students. Curriculum and educational interventions that concerning students’ goal and developing programs to enhance students’ social value of goal is necessary.

Genus <i>Stathmopoda</i> Herrich-Shäffer (Lepidoptera, Stathmopodidae) from the Korean Peninsula with two new species

Park, Kyu-Tek,Cho, Soowon,Na, Solmoon,Shin, Young-Min,Kim, Sora Elsevier 2018 Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Vol.11 No.2

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>A total of 13 species of the genus <I>Stathmopoda</I> (Lepidoptera, Stathmopodidae) are reviewed from the Korean Peninsula including two new species, <I>Stathmopoda baegunica</I> Park & Kim <B>sp. nov</B>. and <I>S. euryzoister</I> Park & Kim <B>sp. nov</B>., and five newly recorded species, <I>S. commoda</I> Meyrick, <I>S. neohexatyla</I> Li & Wang, <I>S. pedella</I> (Linnaeus), <I>S. persona</I> Terada, and <I>S. moriutiella</I> Kasy. Among them, <I>Stathmopoda pullicuneata</I> Terada, 2014, <B>syn. nov.</B> is synonymized with <I>S. neohexatyla</I> Li & Wang, 2002. Illustrations of the adults and genitalia and diagnoses or descriptions for all the species are provided with available host plant information.</P>

Measuring affective and cognitive empathy among Korean and Chinese adolescents: translating and validating the empathy scale

Park Soowon,Wang, Jiayi,최병호 서울대학교 교육연구소 2021 Asia Pacific Education Review Vol.22 No.4

This study translates and validates the empathy scale of the How I Feel in Diferent Situations Questionnaire. Out of 1010 Korean (n=558) and Chinese (n=452) middle school students, 342 (Korean=191 and Chinese=151) and 668 students (Korean=367 and Chinese=301) participated in Studies 1 and 2, respectively. The exploratory factor analysis for Study 1 showed that the scale consisted of two factors, which included both afective and cognitive empathy in both the Korean and Chinese samples. The confrmatory factor analysis for Study 2 also confrmed the two-factor structure and the metric invariances across nationality (Korean, Chinese), gender (female, male), and grade (7th, 8th, 9th). Both afective and cognitive empathy were positively associated with pro-social behavior and perceived social preferences. The results indicate that the translated empathy scale was valid. Further, the same underlying constructs are being measured across nationality, gender, and grade. The distinguishing framework of the afective and cognitive empathy is applicable to Korean and Chinese samples. Understanding the students’ empathy measured by the translated scale will help to understand their pro-social behavior and perceived social preferences.

자연어처리와 머신러닝을 통한 특정 감정 분석 및 감정 추이 분석

박수원(Soowon Park),최태영(Tae-Young Choe) 한국정보과학회 2022 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2022 No.12

The Current Status of Brain-related Lessons and Their Relationship with Knowledge of Brain Plasticity

박수원(Soowon Park) 한국교원대학교 교육연구원 2020 敎員敎育 Vol.36 No.2

This study aimed to examine the current status of brain-related lessons and their relationship with knowledge about brain plasticity. A total of 955 pre-service teachers (349 for elementary school, and 606 for secondary school) answered survey questions about their experience taking a lesson involving brain knowledge. Among them, 514 (266 for elementary school, and 248 for secondary school) provided answers regarding their knowledge and beliefs regarding brain plasticity. The results showed that 30% had experienced having lessons about the brain. However, their knowledge of brain plasticity did not increase as a result of the brain lessons, except for one statement regarding learning and brain plasticity. Furthermore, beliefs about brain plasticity were positively related with perceived helpfulness and the importance of having knowledge about the brain for teaching. These results illustrate that current college education has little association with the knowledge about brain plasticity among pre-service teachers. Therefore, developing teacher training programs for enhancing belief and knowledge about brain plasticity is required.

자기회귀교차지연 모형을 적용한 청소년의 사회적 관계성과 공동체의식 간의 종단적 관계 검증

박수원(Park, Soowon),김샛별(Kim, Saetbyul) 한국청소년정책연구원 2016 한국청소년연구 Vol.27 No.2

본 연구의 목적은 자기회귀교차지연모형을 통해 청소년의 사회적 관계성과 공동체의식의 상호적 인과관계를 확인하는 데 있다. 사회적 관계성의 경우 교우관계, 교사관계, 부모관계로 구분하여 살펴보았고 공동체의식의 경우에는 자신이 직접 만나는 타인과의 관계에서가 아닌, 사회와 세계를 위한 공동체의식으로 개념화하여 살펴보았다. 한국청소년정책연구원에서 중학생을 대상으로 수집한 한국아동청소년패널 자료 중 3차, 4차, 5차년도의 자료를 이용하여 분석한 결과, 사회적 관계성과 공동체의식은 서로 영향을 미치는 상호인과관계를 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 청소년의 교우관계, 교사관계, 부모관계의 질이 공동체의식을 높이는 원인 변인으로 역할하며, 동시에 공동체의식 또한 청소년의 사회적 관계성을 높이는 변인임을 보여준다. 본 연구는 공동체의식이 사회적 관계성을 높이는 변임임을 확인함으로써 공동체의식을 향상시키는 교육적 처치들을 통해 청소년의 직접적인 사회적 관계도 증진시킬 수 있음을 보여준다. 또한 청소년의 공동체의식을 이해하기 위해서는 청소년이 현실에서 마주하는 직접적인 사회적 관계의 질이 어떠한지를 고려할 필요가 있으며, 청소년의 공동체의식함양을 위한 교육적 개입 시 교우관계 뿐만 아니라 교사와의 관계, 부모와의 관계 증진에도 초점을 맞춘다면 효과가 증진될 수 있을 것이다. This study sought to identify the reciprocal effects of social relationships and a sense of community by means of autoregressive cross-legged modeling. Social relationships have been examined through adolescents’ relationships with their parents, peers and teachers. A sense of community has been conceptualized through a number of different dimensions, such as societies and the world, with the exception of direct personal relations. According to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th years panel data, conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute and gathered from middle school students, the results show that social involvement and a sense of community are interdependent. The results indicated that adolescents’ social relationships can improve the sense of community and vice versa. Therefore, social relationships are important in adolescents’ sense of society. These results suggest that if educational interventions for adolescents focus on improving one’s relationships with others, especially with one’s peers, it will enhance the subjects’ sense of community.

근전도를 이용한 VR 컨트롤러

박민 ( Min Park ),박종찬 ( Jong-chan Park ),이은솔 ( Eun-sol Lee ),김지연 ( Ji-yeon Kim ),이수원 ( Soowon Lee ),이상준 ( Sang-jun Lee ) 한국정보처리학회 2016 한국정보처리학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.23 No.2

컴퓨터가 인간의 생활과 밀접해지면서 인간은 사람과 컴퓨터간의 더 효율적인 인터페이스를 갈구하게 되었다. 기존의 VR 컨트롤러들은 버튼으로 이루어져 있어 조작의 감도가 좋지 않다. 이미 VR 시장에서는 VR 을 더욱 현실감 있게 즐기기 위한 컨트롤러의 개발에 열을 올리고 있다. 본 연구는 더욱 현실감 있는 VR 컨트롤러를 위해 근전도 센서,IMU 센서 그리고 블루투스 모듈을 이용하는 방법을 제시한다.

메타인지 학습전략과 성취동기, 자기주도적 학습시간의 종단적 상호관계

박정심 ( Jeongshim Park ),박수원 ( Soowon Park ) 미래를 여는 청소년학회 2019 미래청소년학회지 Vol.16 No.2

본 연구의 목적은 청소년기 자기주도적 학습에 중요한 구성요소인 메타인지 학습전략과 성취동기, 자기주도적 학습시간이 시간의 흐름에 따라 어떤 관계를 맺는지 알아보고자 하였다. 특히 성취동기의 유형(숙달접근, 수행접근)에 따라 메타인지 학습전략과 성취동기 및 자기주도적 학습시간의 종단적 관계에 있어 차이가 있는지를 확인하고자 하였다. 이를 위해, 한국교육개발원에서 수집한 한국교육종단연구 자료 중에서 중2부터 고2까지 총 4차년도에 걸쳐 수집된 청소년 6,908명의 데이터를 자기회귀교차지연모형을 적용하여 분석하였다. 각 잠재변인 간의 관계를 종단적으로 분석한 결과, 메타인지 학습전략과 숙달접근 및 자기주도적 학습시간은 모두 정적인 상호관계를 갖는 것으로 확인되었다. 그러나 메타인지와 수행접근은 상호적 관계를 맺지 않았으며, 수행접근은 메타인지에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과는 청소년의 메타인지 학습전략이 이들의 동기와 행동 모두에 긍정적인 영향을 줄 수 있는 변인임을 보여주며, 숙달접근이 수행접근에 비교하여 장기적으로 효과적인 이유 중 하나로 메타인지 학습전략의 사용 차이 때문일 수 있음을 보여준다. 교육자들은 학생들에게 여러 메타인지 학습전략을 알려주고 실제 학습현장에서 활발히 사용할 수 있는 환경을 조성하도록 노력해야 할 것이다. The purpose of the current study was to examine the reciprocal relationships among metacognitive learning strategy, achievement motivation, and self-regulated learning time. Especially, we focused on the relationships were differentiated depending on the content of achievement motivation; mastery approach or performance approach. The 4 years longitudinal data (6,908 adolescents) from the middle school (8th grade) to high school (11th grade) students in the panel of Korean Education Longitudinal Study (KELS) was utilized. The autoregressive cross-legged modeling showed that there were reciprocal relationships among the three variables; metacognitive learning strategy, mastery approach, and self-regulated learning time. However, performance approach motivation did not predict metacognitive strategy. These results suggest that metacognitive strategy can have positive affect to both students' motivation and learning behavior. Furthermore, the reason why mastery approach is effective in learning is maybe because the mediating role of metacognitive strategy. Educators should establish educational context that teaching metacognitive strategies and implementing the strategy.

공기액화 기반 에너지 저장 시스템에 대한 공기액화용 극저온 팽창기 기본/상세 설계

박세진(Sehjin Park),임형수(Hyung-Soo Lim),정희찬(Heechan Jeong),최범석(Bum Seok Choi),박무룡(Mu Ryong Park),황순찬(Soonchan Hwang),최원철(Won Chul Choi),김수원(Soowon Kim),임영철(Youngchul Lim) 대한기계학회 2023 대한기계학회 춘추학술대회 Vol.2023 No.7