The Research Of The Balanced Procession Of Two Hemispheres In Chinese Characters Recognition

Language is a most important function of human brain. The research of the relation between brain and language is of great value. Studies of cerebral lateralization began in the 1860s, when behaviors of patients with brain damages were first described. During the following century, with continuous accumulation of similar clinical data, the concept and theoretical frame of cerebral laterablization became more and more established. Studies of cerebral lateralization in normal subjects greatly benefited from the use of methods in cognitive psychology. Till now, western researchers come to a same conclusion: left hemisphere is the domain hemisphere.Special software is designed to generate all the stimuli and manager the data on the computer. 30 subjects are involved in this study.The first two experiments explore recognition of printed Chinese characters and Chinese characters handwriting. The third experiment explores the difference between these two kinds of Chinese characters. The results indicate:a) Chinese subjects show neither RVF-LH nor LVF-RH in recognition of Chinese characters, which is different from westerns' recognition of western language characters.b) Gender has effects on recognition of Chinese characters. The males tend to show RVF-LH in some cases, the females show neither RVF-LH nor LVF-RH in all circumstances.