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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
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Nachshon, Israel; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1977
"32 English readers and 32 Hebrew readers were shown stimuli with directional characteristics (English and Hebrew letters) and stimuli with no directional characteristics (arrays of different circles, bars, colors, and geometric figures) for scanning. The results showed that, while directional stimulus characteristics affected the direction…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Immigrants