Eye-Movement Evidence for the Mental Representation of Strokes in Chinese Characters

Autor/inn/en	Yu, Lili; Xiong, Jianping; Zhang, Qiaoming; Drieghe, Denis; Reichle, Erik D.
Titel	Eye-Movement Evidence for the Mental Representation of Strokes in Chinese Characters
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45 (2019) 3, S.544-551 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000598
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Chinese; Reading; Memory; Models; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Experiments; Orthographic Symbols; Sentences; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; China; Chinesen; Leseprozess; Lesen; Gedächtnis; Analogiemodell; Ausland; Erprobung; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse
Abstract	Although strokes are the smallest identifiable units in Chinese words, the fact that they are often embedded within larger units (i.e., radicals and/or characters that comprise Chinese words) raises questions about "how" and even "if" strokes are separately represented in lexical memory. The present experiment examined these questions using a gaze-contingent boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975) to manipulate the parafoveal preview of the first of two-character target words. Relative to a normal preview, the removal of whole strokes was more disruptive (i.e., resulting in longer looking times on targets) than the removal of an equivalent amount of visual information (i.e., number of pixels) from strokes located either in similar locations or throughout the entire character. These findings suggest that strokes are represented as discrete functional units rather than visual features or integral parts of the radicals/characters in which they are embedded. We discuss the theoretical implications of this conclusion for models of Chinese word identification. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01