College of Science, National Taiwan University

Helium Isotope Anomaly in Groundwater Prior to the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake

地質科學系 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:29:49 +0000

“Atomic C-reagents and catalysts for clean silicone synthesis”

化學系 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:17:18 +0000

A Quarter of a Century of Sponge Biodiversity and Functioning in the Spermonde Archipelago (Indonesia): Impacts of Eutrophication and Environmental Change.

海洋研究所 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:55:37 +0000

Nicole de Voogd (https://www.naturalis.nl/en/science/researchers/nicole-voogd) is a world-leading sponge expert, bringing taxonomy, biodiversity, and reef ecology together to reveal the hidden importance of sponges in tropical marine ecosystems. Her talk will explore how decades of research in Indonesia have reshaped our understanding of sponge communities and their responses to eutrophication and environmental change.

Environmental DNA as a Window into Marine Ecosystem Dynamics: Lessons from the ANEMONE Network.

海洋研究所 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:55:12 +0000

Prof. Michio Kondoh is a renowned theoretical ecologist and the Founder and current Director of ANEMONE (All Nippon eDNA Monitoring Network) Global.
His talk will link ecological theory with eDNA monitoring.

Harnessing Hot Carriers for Chemical Transformations

化學系 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:57:31 +0000

【2nd Year Talk of PhD Students】Music-to-Lexical Tone Transfer in Infancy: Effects of Distributional Learning Under Varying Acoustic Complexity

心理學系 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:28:26 +0000

Lexical tone perception is essential for preverbal infants learning a tonal language to encode pitch variation as a lexically contrastive dimension for constructing the lexical meanings of syllables. The perception of native and non-native lexical tones undergoes rapid developmental changes between 6 and 12 months of age; however, the learning mechanisms underpinning these changes remain an open question. While distributional statistical learning supports lexical tone acquisition in infants learning non-tonal languages, and music-to-lexical tone transfer is well-documented in non-tonal language adults, it remains unclear whether early musical exposure can combine with statistical learning to facilitate learning native lexical tones in preverbal infants. Furthermore, whether the acoustic complexity of musical melodies moderates this perceptual learning has yet to be determined. Experiment 1 exposed Mandarin-learning 7- and 11-month-olds (n = 63) to a violin continuum, distributed in either a unimodal or bimodal pattern, and subsequently tested the infants on distinguishing the Mandarin Tone 2 vs. Tone 3 contrast. For both infant age groups, both distributional learning conditions induced significant and equivalent perceptual improvements, indicating that passive musical exposure is sufficient to facilitate tonal development. Experiment 2 exposed Mandarin-learning infants (n = 75) to musical melodies with a mixed-instrument continuum combining violin and erhu to increase acoustic complexity in the distributional learning context. Under high acoustic complexity, results revealed that the music exposure gain was marginally moderated by input distribution, showing an advantage of bimodal distribution over unimodal distribution. Furthermore, 7-month-olds exhibited bimodal distributional learning advantages across both single- and mixed-instrument conditions, whereas 11-month-olds improved comparably across both conditions regardless of distributional inputs. These findings demonstrate that music-to-lexical tone transfer learning is an effective mechanism for infants learning a tonal language, but this cross-domain facilitation is constrained by both the music input distribution pattern and developmental timing.

A Career Journey in Geosciences

地質科學系 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:20:53 +0000

Language | Mandarin Chinese

【PhD Candidate Public Presentation】The body’s self-protection mechanism – multidimensional pain manifested in Self-Harm Behaviors

心理學系 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:20:22 +0000

【博二生演講】少年矯正學校適應議題：評估工具的建構與心理結構探索

黃文瑾 — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:33:11 +0000

那些雪山槽和二疊紀盆地教我的二三事

黃文瑾 — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:28:41 +0000