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Lateralization in the visual perception of Chinese characters and words
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cheng, Chao-Ming Yang, Mu-Jang |
| Copyright Year | 1989 |
| Abstract | It has been reported that tachistoscopic perception of single Chinese characters is better with a left-visual-field (LVF) than with a right-visual-field (RVF) presentation and that of Chinese words consisting of characters is better with a RVF presentation (O. J. L. Tzeng, D. L. Hung, B. Cotton, & S.-Y. Wang, 1979, Nature (London), 382, 499-501). In this study, the nature of this character-word difference in lateralization was explored in a task in which stimuli were presented unilaterally to a visual field for recognition test. Four types of stimuli were used: Single character, single pseudo- or noncharacter, two-character word, and two-character pseudoword. Results show (a) no visual-field advantage for illegal characters and words, (b) a LVF-advantage effect for characters associated with a more prominent LVF than RVF character-superiority effect, (c) a RVF-advantage effect for words associated with a more prominent RVF than LVF word-superiority effect, and (d) these two visual-field effects for characters and words being not absolute, they occur only with a low rather than with a high recognition for their respective illegal counterparts. These results suggest that the character-word difference is due to a more efficient lexical interpretation of character stimuli in the right than in the left hemisphere and a more efficient lexical interpretation of word stimuli in the left than in the right hemisphere. |
| Starting Page | 669 |
| Ending Page | 689 |
| Page Count | 21 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/0093-934X(89)90093-X |
| PubMed reference number | 2720375 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 36 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/pii/0093934X8990093X |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0093934X8990093X?dgcid=api_sd_search-api-endpoint |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/0093-934X%2889%2990093-X |
| Journal | Brain and Language |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
