Stroke Encoding Processes of Chinese Character During Sentence Reading

The present study was conducted to examine whether traditional and simplified Chinese readers (TCRs and SCRs) differed in stroke encoding in character processing by an eye-tracking experiment. We recruited 66 participants (32 TCRs and 34 SCRs) to read sentences comprising characters with different p...

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Published in:Experimental psychology 2020, Vol.67 (1), p.31-39
Main Authors: Zhai, Mingjun, Chen, Hsuan-Chih, Yip, Michael C. W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cerebrovascular Accidents
Female
Human
Lexical Access
Male
Monitoring
Reading
Sentence Comprehension
Sentences
Test Construction
Verbs
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Summary:The present study was conducted to examine whether traditional and simplified Chinese readers (TCRs and SCRs) differed in stroke encoding in character processing by an eye-tracking experiment. We recruited 66 participants (32 TCRs and 34 SCRs) to read sentences comprising characters with different proportions and types of strokes removed in order to explore whether any visual complexity effect existed in their processing of simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The present study found a cross-script visual complexity effect and that SCRs were more influenced by visual complexity change in lexical access than were TCRs. In addition, the stroke-order effect appeared to be more salient for TCRs than for SCRs.
ISSN:1618-3169
2190-5142
DOI:10.1027/1618-3169/a000478