The Inhibitory Effect Of The Activation Of Adjacent Characters In Orthography In Chinese Printed And Handwritten Text Reading

In daily communication and information acquisition,there are two main forms of Chinese character,which are handwritten and printed.Handwritten character is the earliest form of writing and reading,and it used to be a common carrier of communication.Although during recent years,with the development of science and technology and the popularization of mobile phones and computers,printed character has become the main form and carrier of information for people to communicate and obtain information,handwritten character still has its irreplaceable role and value.Therefore,the research focus on when people recognize or read the two forms of characters,whether the processing process of readers is different.Orthographic processing is an important processing process for Chinese character recognition.However,in handwritten character,a large number of strokes and radicals have been simplified,which destroy the original structure and orthographic information of Chinese characters at different levels.This phenomenon is particularly obvious in the Chinese characters with more strokes.Previous studies have found inhibitory neighbor priming effects and stroke number effect in printed character.The inhibitory neighbor priming effects refer to that in vocabulary recognition or sentence reading,the processing of orthographic neighbor will inhibit the recognition of the later target words.Stroke number effect means that compared with words with fewer strokes,the recognition of words with more strokes is more difficult and takes longer time.Therefore,when readers recognize and reading Chinese handwritten text with simplified strokes or radicals,can it show obvious inhibitory neighbor priming effects and stroke number effect? At the same time,when readers recognize or read Chinese text presented in handwritten and printed form,whether the above two effects are different.The purpose of this study is to answer these two questions.This study includes experiment one and experiment two.There were eighty undergraduates taking part in the Experiment One.There uses a 2(text type: printed text,handwritten text)×2(stroke number: more strokes,less strokes)×2(priming type: orthographic neighbor,control word)×2(SOA: 43 ms,57ms)within-subject design.The priming paradigm was adopted,and orthographic neighbors with similar shape and different pronunciation were used as experimental materials.Readers were asked to complete the naming task,in order to investigate inhibitory neighbor priming effects and stroke number effect in single printed and handwritten Chinese character recognition.Forty-four undergraduates took part in the Experiment Two.There uses a 2(text type: printed text,handwritten text)×2(stroke numbers: more strokes,less strokes)×2(priming type: orthographic neighbor,control word)within-subject design.Eye tracker was used to investigate the inhibitory neighbor priming effects and the stroke number effect during printed and handwritten sentence reading.According to the results,the conclusion was shown as follows.(1)There is a significant stroke number effect in printed and handwritten texts during character recognition and reading.(2)Compared with printed text,handwritten text shows a more significant reading cost.(3)In the process of recognition and reading of printed text,there exists inhibitory neighbor priming effects,and this effect only occurs in the early stages of word recognition.But there is no such effect in the handwritten text.