Phonological access is an important component in theories and models of word reading. However, phonological regularity consistency effects are not clearly separable alphabetic writing systems. We investigated these Chinese, where the two variables operationally distinct. In this orthographic system, defined as congruence between pronunciation a complex character (or phonogram), that its phonetic radical, while indexes proportion neighbors share same phonogram. current investigation, were...

ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Psychol., 18 September 2012Sec. Language Sciences https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00333

In this investigation, a picture-character matching task using the event-related potential (ERP) technique was conducted to identify temporal dynamics of orthographic and semantic activation during Chinese character recognition. The ERP results revealed that impact orthography occurred early long-lasting, whereas effect comparatively late. particular, exhibited larger occipital N170, smaller frontal P200, N400 component for characters sharing information with paired pictures. observed may...

Lexical-semantic variables (such as word frequency, imageability and age of acquisition) have been studied extensively in neuropsychology to address the structure production system. The evidence available on this issue is still rather controversial, mainly because very complex interrelations between lexical-semantic variables. Moreover, it not clear whether results obtained Indo-European languages also hold with a completely different script, such Chinese. objective present study investigate...

This study aimed to investigate the timecourse and neural underpinnings of coding radical positions in Chinese character reading. To isolate effects positions, four types pseudocharacters were created which constituent radicals appeared varying probability occurrence, that is, Unique, Dominant, Subordinate, or Illegal positions. Twenty native readers performed a detection task where real characters identified among pseudocharacters. The event-related potential data demonstrated items...

Cognitive neuropsychological studies of bilingual patients with aphasia have contributed to our understanding how the brain processes different languages. The question we asked is whether differences in script any impact on language processing aphasic who speak languages writing systems: Chinese and Mongolian. We observed a pattern greater impairment written word comprehension oral reading L2 (Chinese) than L1 (Mongolian) for two patients. argue that only minimal effect when age acquisition,...

Abstract Several norms of psycholinguistic features Chinese characters exist in Mandarin Chinese, but only a few are available Cantonese or the traditional script, and none includes semantic radical transparency ratings. This study presents subjective ratings age-of-acquisition (AoA), familiarity, imageability, concreteness, 4376 characters. The single were rated individually on five dimensions by 20 native speakers Hong Kong to form Character Psycholinguistic Norms (HKCCPN). split-half...

Studies are emerging that suggest major language indices do not differentiate children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with risk-adapted intrathecal chemotherapy (ITC) from control matched on age, gender, and educational level. No study to date has controlled cognitive environment, an important variable influencing achievement outcome. This case-control applies the deconfounding principle by using a sibling as investigate outcomes in male child 11 years after administration of...

Event Abstract Back to The Canto-Lexicon Project: A Preliminary Report Kai-Yan Dustin Lau1*, I-Fan Su2 and Yen-Na Cherry Yum3 1 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kong, SAR China 2 University of 3 Education Introduction. There are subtle differences in the orthographic phonological forms Chinese language used Mainland China, Taiwan Kong. In traditional characters Cantonese used. Previous database projects conducted (Liu, Shu, & Li, 2007) (Chang, Hsu, Tsai, Chen Lee, 2016) have documented...

Conference Theme: Education, Research and Clinical Service: Within Beyond Asia the Pacific

Individuals with dyslexia have deficiencies in lexical organization and processing that are behaviorally manifested as difficulties learning grapheme-phoneme correspondences. The present study investigates the representations of Chinese reading-impaired children using event-related potentials (ERP) time-frequency analysis. Two Cantonese-speaking male children, one reading impairment (PR) normal performance (CA), performing a character recognition task were conducted. ERP results indicated CA...

Previous research of picture naming in a picture-word interference paradigm has demonstrated independent facilitative effects orthographic and phonological similarity Chinese, as homophonous characters can be visually dissimilar. This study investigated the locus priming Chinese assessed hypothesis that effect part semantically based, through manipulating extent semantic relatedness between target-distractor characters. Our findings replicated previous results facilitation interference, well...