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Yang, Ruoxiao; Wang, William Shi Yuan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Recent research has shown that the visual complexity of orthographies across writing systems influences the development of orthographic representations. Simplified and traditional Chinese characters are usually regarded as the most visually complicated writing systems currently in use, with the traditional system showing a higher level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Difficulty Level
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Tsang, Vicky – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
The eye-tracking experiment was carried out to assess fixation duration and scan paths that individuals with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorders employed when identifying simple and complex emotions. Participants viewed human photos of facial expressions and decided on the identification of emotion, the negative-positive emotion…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Emotional Response, Nonverbal Communication, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Wong, Simpson W. L.; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Ho, Connie Suk-Han; Waye, Mary M. Y.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This twin study examined the relative contributions of genes and environment on 2nd language reading acquisition of Chinese-speaking children learning English. We examined whether specific skills-visual word recognition, receptive vocabulary, phonological awareness, phonological memory, and speech discrimination-in the 1st and 2nd languages have…
Descriptors: Twins, Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning