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Zhao, Pei; Zhao, Jing; Weng, Xuchu; Li, Su – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Visual word N170 is an index of perceptual expertise for visual words across different writing systems. Recent developmental studies have shown the early emergence of visual word N170 and its close association with individual's reading ability. In the current study, we investigated whether fine-tuning N170 for Chinese characters could emerge after…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Visual Perception, Orthographic Symbols
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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
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Laeng, Bruno; Torstein, Lag; Brennen, Tim – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
Sensory or input factors can influence the strength of interference in the classic Stroop color-word task. Specifically, in a single-trial computerized version of the Stroop task, when color-word pairs were incongruent, opponent color pairs (e.g., the word BLUE in yellow) showed reduced Stroop interference compared with nonopponent color pairs…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Color, Computer Simulation, Word Recognition