Double-Sided Occluded Chinese Character Recognition Accuracy and Response Time for Design and Nondesign Educational Background

Autor/in	Liao, Ching-Chih
Titel	Double-Sided Occluded Chinese Character Recognition Accuracy and Response Time for Design and Nondesign Educational Background
Quelle	In: SAGE Open, 8 (2018) 4, (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Liao, Ching-Chih)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-2440
DOI	10.1177/2158244018810065
Schlagwörter	Chinese; Orthographic Symbols; Reaction Time; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Accuracy; Recognition (Psychology); Educational Background; Design; Majors (Students); College Students; Visual Stimuli; Foreign Countries; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? China; Chinesen; Reaktionsvermögen; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Vorbildung; Collegestudent; Ausland
Abstract	This article investigates the influence of the position of occlusion, structural composition, and design educational status on Chinese character recognition accuracy and response time. Tsao and Liao conducted an experiment using 18 of the 4,000 most commonly used Chinese characters and suggested that the primary and secondary recognition features of a "single-sided" occluded Chinese character are the key radical (or initial strokes) and the key component (i.e., combination of strokes), respectively. The study concluded that right-side occluded characters require a shorter response time and yield more accurate recognition and that educational background does not significantly affect recognition accuracy and response time. The present study considered the same 18 Chinese characters and extended the work of Tsao and Liao by exploring accuracy rate and response time in design and nondesign educational groups for the recognition of "double-sided" occluded Chinese characters. The experimental results indicated that right-side occlusion (including both bottom-right and top-right occlusion) requires a shorter response time and yields more accurate recognition than left-side occlusion. These results agree with those of Tsao and Liao, who found that the key radical of a Chinese character is its key visual recognition feature. Even double-sided occlusion of Chinese characters does not affect the recognition outcome if the position of occlusion does not blur the key radical. Moreover, the participants majoring in design recognized the occluded Chinese characters more slowly than those with no educational background in design. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01