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Sun, Yafeng; Yang, Yanhui; Desroches, Amy S.; Liu, Li; Peng, Danling – Brain and Language, 2011
Previous literature in alphabetic languages suggests that the occipital-temporal region (the ventral pathway) is specialized for automatic parallel word recognition, whereas the parietal region (the dorsal pathway) is specialized for serial letter-by-letter reading (and). However, few studies have directly examined the role of the ventral and…
Descriptors: Romanization, Personality, Word Recognition, Character Recognition
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Liao, Chen-Huei; Georgiou, George K.; Parrila, Rauno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
We examined the relationship between rapid naming speed (RAN) and Chinese character recognition accuracy and fluency. Sixty-three grade 2 and 54 grade 4 Taiwanese children were administered four RAN tasks (colors, digits, Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hao, characters), and two character recognition tasks. RAN tasks accounted for more reading variance in grade 4 than…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Character Recognition, Grade 4, Grade 2