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Eye-movement evidence for the mental representation of strokes in Chinese characters.

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: strokes are separately represented in lexical memory. The present experiment examined these questions using a gaze-contingent boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975) to manipulate the parafoveal preview of the first of two-character target words. Relative to a normal preview, the removal of whole strokes was more disruptive (i.e., resulting in longer looking times on targets) than the removal of an equivalent amount of visual information (i.e., number of pixels) from strokes located either in similar locations or throughout the entire character. These findings suggest that strokes are represented as discrete functional units rather than visual features or integral parts of the radicals/characters in which they are embedded. We discuss the theoretical implications of this conclusion for models of Chinese word identification. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000598

Authors: Lili Yu, Jianping Xiong, Qiaoming Zhang, Denis Drieghe, Erik D. Reichle

Institutions: Macquarie University, Henan Normal University, Ludong University, University of Southampton

Language: English

Topic: Reading and Literacy Development

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

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