Journal
I-PERCEPTION
Volume 7, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/2041669516675366
Keywords
Chinese compound words; right visual field superiority; character decomposition; character transposition; character order errors
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Funding
- 973 project [2013CB329401]
- National High Technology Development Program (863) of China [2015AA020505]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61573080, 91420105]
- 111 Project [B12027]
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This study investigated the character decomposition and transposition processes of Chinese two-character compound words (canonical and transposed words) and pseudowords in the right and left visual fields using a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. The results confirmed a right visual field superiority for canonical words, but this advantage vanished for transposed words. The findings further indicated that the same quality of lexical processing could be obtained from the foveal and parafoveal regions of the right and left visual fields, regardless of the character order, but not in the periphery of the right visual field. Moreover, the proportion of order reversals peaked at the central position and the shortest exposure time, but it declined with increasing eccentricity and time interval. We concluded that the character transposition of Chinese compound words was significantly sensitive in the periphery of the right visual field. Furthermore, the character order errors were mainly encoded in the foveal vision with a duration of 100 ms, which suggested that the order of the foveally presented Chinese characters was more likely to be reversed at the early stage of visual word processing.
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