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NEUROREPORT
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 147-151Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328010d4e4
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Chinese; consistency effect; event-related potentials
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This study aimed to explore the temporal dynamics of the consistency effect in reading Chinese phonograms. High-consistency and low-consistency characters were used in the homophone judgment task, and the event-related potentials were recorded. The data showed that low-consistency characters elicited greater N170 amplitude in the temporal-occipital region and greater P200 amplitude in the frontal region than high-consistency characters, whereas high-consistency characters showed greater amplitude of the N400 negativity than low-consistency characters. These findings can be interpreted as indicating that low-consistency characters produce a greater activation for the initial analysis of the orthographical and phonological representations, whereas high-consistency characters involve a greater lexical competition in the later stage.
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