The Development Of Chinese Character Glyph Disintegration And ERP Research Evidence

We often have such a feeling,when watching a Chinese for a long time,we will find on the word recognition is difficult,often do not know,this is the Chinese character "glyph collapse",otherwise known as "glyph saturation" phenomenon.The earliest study of this phenomenon is actually began in 1907,when Severance and Washburn began to study this phenomenon,they found that,with the passage of time to look at a word,people’s recognition of the word is more and more difficult,then the researchers call this phenomenon "semantic saturation".Semantic saturation phenomenon,the original research is confined to string literal like English letters,until 1994,when Taiwan scholars Chao-Ming Cheng began for semantic saturation character study,found that exist in the Chinese character glyph disintegration phenomenon.Since then,many psychologists tried to use a variety of research methods to study Chinese characters the semantics of the saturation and the disintegration of the font.This research mainly use the experimental method and questionnaire method to study Chinese character glyph disintegration phenomenon,conducted a preliminary experiment and two main experiments,preliminary experiment is mainly to investigate by questionnaire and experiment research materials of semantic relevance and the rationality of the experimental program.We found that as long as it is true word,it cannot be ruled out Chinese characters semantic factors,the experiment adopted by each group of Chinese have some semantic effects.In Experiment 1,the Chinese character of different matrix type is judged by the key reaction,to verify the existence of the phenomenon of the Chinese character glyph.T test and variance analysis was carried out on the experimental data,we can get the following conclusions: First,the glyph similarity matrix reaction time in each section were greater than the glyph dissimilarity matrix;Second,the matrix type,section and the effects of the interaction between them were significantly;Third,the dissolution rate of β value greater than zero,the Chinese character disintegration phenomenon happened.Experiment Two use ERP to study,subjects by watching each set of characters on the screen there were a few kinds of color for the corresponding button.Processing data after the experiment.Analysis the changes of the N170 component.Some researchers have found in temporal pillow the N170 visual stimulation is more sensitive to words,therefore analyzing the changes of the composition can be intuitive to get construction under the condition of repeated changes in the brain.Through analysis we find: First,different points between the amplitude difference reached significant level;Second,In all the N170 shape similarity with increasing font structure repetition decreases gradually,but did not reach significant level;Third,the font in a different sequence of N170 changes occur.