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Hsiao, Janet Hui-wen – Brain and Language, 2011
In Chinese orthography, a dominant character structure exists in which a semantic radical appears on the left and a phonetic radical on the right (SP characters); a minority opposite arrangement also exists (PS characters). As the number of phonetic radical types is much greater than semantic radical types, in SP characters the information is…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Semantics, Personality, Word Recognition
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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
Lesgold, Alan M.; Danner, Frederick – 1976
In order to understand the process of reading, it is important to determine how strings of letters are perceived. This study tests the hypothesis that units of visual perception may include pairs of letters and perhaps even high-frequency, monosyllabic trigrams (three-letter sequences). Participants were asked to report the names of either single…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, College Students, Decoding (Reading), Reading Processes
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Massaro, Dominic W.; And Others – 1977
The studies reported here examined the role of orthographic regularity and summed positional frequency in the perception of letter strings. College sophomores and sixth graders were asked to indicate whether or not a target letter was present in a six-letter string. Orthographic regularity and summed positional frequency were found to have no…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, College Students, Grade 6, Letters (Alphabet)