The impact of L1 orthographic depth and L2 proficiency on mapping orthography to phonology in L2-English: an ERP investigation

MR Botezatu - Applied psycholinguistics, 2023 - cambridge.org
English monolinguals (Experiment 1) and first language (L1)-dominant, Spanish-English
and Chinese-English bilinguals (Experiment 2), who differed in L1 orthographic depth …

Decoding the neural impact of radical complexity in Chinese characters during working memory task

H Li, X Zhao - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Readers of Chinese characters need to recognize how they are formed in order to identify
them correctly. However, our understanding of the cognitive processing of characters in …

Top-down modulation of early print-tuned neural activity in reading

F Wang, U Maurer - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
Fast neural tuning to print has been found within the first 250 ms of stimulus processing
across different writing systems, indicated by larger N1 negativity in the ERP to words (or …

Hong Kong Chinese character psycholinguistic norms: Ratings of 4376 single Chinese characters on semantic radical transparency, age-of-acquisition, familiarity …

IF Su, YN Yum, DKY Lau - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
Several norms of psycholinguistic features of Chinese characters exist in Mandarin Chinese,
but only a few are available in Cantonese or in the traditional script, and none includes …

Spatiotemporal Neural Network for Sublexical Information Processing: An Intracranial SEEG Study

C Zhao, Y Liu, J Zeng, X Luo, W Sun, G Luan… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
Words offer a unique opportunity to separate the processing mechanisms of object
subcomponents from those of the whole object, because the phonological or semantic …

N170 reflects visual familiarity and automatic sublexical phonological access in L2 written word processing

YN Yum, SP Law - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2021 - cambridge.org
The literature has mixed reports on whether the N170, an early visual ERP response to
words, signifies orthographic and/or phonological processing, and whether these effects are …

The time course of orthographic and semantic activation in Chinese character recognition: evidence from anERP study

H Zhang, IF Su, F Chen, ML Ng, L Wang… - Language, Cognition …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In this investigation, a picture-character matching task using the event-related potential
(ERP) technique was conducted to identify the temporal dynamics of orthographic and …

Neurophysiological correlates of reading difficulties in elementary school children

H Sun, Q Shi, S Pazoki, Y Jia… - Developmental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The present study examined the event-related potentials (ERPs) and reading-language
skills of elementary school children with and without reading difficulties. Typically …

Chinese Character Processing

X Duan, ZG Cai - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2024 - oxfordre.com
Chinese characters, as the basic units of the Chinese writing system, encapsulate a deep
orthography that requires complex cognitive processing during recognition, naming, and …

Level of orthographic knowledge helps to reveal automatic predictions in visual word processing

Z Huang, S Yang, L Xue, H Yang, Y Lv… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The brain generates predictions about visual word forms to support efficient reading. The
“interactive account” suggests that the predictions in visual word processing can be strategic …