Age of acquisition affects early orthographic processing during Chinese character recognition |
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Authors: | Baoguo Chen Kevin Dent Wenping You Guolai Wu |
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Institution: | 1. Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China;2. School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT Birmingham, UK;3. The State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China;4. Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjing Normal University, 300074 Tianjin, China |
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Abstract: | Three experiments investigated age of acquisition (AoA) effects on early orthographic processing during Chinese character recognition. In Experiment 1, we measured the accuracy of identification of brief masked characters, accuracy was higher for early compared to late acquired characters. In Experiment 2, the visual duration threshold (VDT) was measured for both early and late acquired Chinese characters. The results showed that early acquired characters were successfully identified at shorter display durations than late acquired characters. Significant AoA effects were also found in Experiment 3, using a lexical decision task requiring mainly orthographic processing (discriminating real Chinese characters from orthographically illegal and unpronounceable characters). In summary, three experiments provide converging empirical evidence, for AoA effects on the early orthographic processing stages of Chinese character recognition. These results suggest that AoA effects during word identification go beyond the phonological or semantic processing stages. These results aslo provide cross-linguistic evidence for an AoA effect on early perceptual processing during identification. |
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