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Need experimental subjects

The following is a shameless advertisement for my experiments. I'm looking for Chinese native speakers to participate in my experiments who meet the following requirements:

* Native Mandarin speakers from Taiwan.
* Living in the Banana-Shampoo (Urbana-Champaign) IL area
* Lived in Taiwan until at least middle school before leaving Taiwan.
* No reading impairments or other handicaps / impairments.
* Adult residents or students in their 20's or 30's with valid student ID or other ID.

I'm currently running some Chinese language surveys, which involve providing your iimpressions about Chinese characters. There are multiple versions of the survey forms with different contents, so you can take up to five of them. Each pays $4 and takes about 20 minutes. You can come pick them, fill them out on your own, and return them later at my lab. I'm looking for a few more participants.

Soon I'll be starting some laboratory experiments, and I need about 60-80 participants who meet the above criteria. I hope to start near the end of May (if everything works out), thru the summer, maybe into the fall. I'm not sure about the time and pay; probably 45-90 minutes, for $5-10 dollars (I'll know for sure after some test runs.)

You'll need to come to my lab at 1424 Beckman Institute, Univ. Illinois, at Wright & University (405 N. Matthews) to pick up and drop off surveys, or to participate in lab experiments.

If you can participate, this would really help me to graduate on time. Please email me at k-lee7 [at] uiuc [.] edu or kentlee7 [at] gmail [.] com. Thanks!

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