Treffer: Visual word processing efficiency for Chinese characters and English words.

Title:
Visual word processing efficiency for Chinese characters and English words.
Authors:
Zhang H; Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China; School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430079, China. Electronic address: hanshuzh@ccnu.edu.cn., Garrett PM; School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia., Lin PY; Department of Psychology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan., Houpt JW; Department of Psychology, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA., Yang CT; Department of Psychology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Health and Biotechnology Law, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. Electronic address: yangct@tmu.edu.tw.
Source:
Acta psychologica [Acta Psychol (Amst)] 2023 Aug; Vol. 238, pp. 103986. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 14.
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Journal Info:
Publisher: North Holland Publishing Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 0370366 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-6297 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00016918 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Acta Psychol (Amst) Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s):
Publication: Amsterdam : North Holland Publishing
Original Publication: The Hague.
MeSH Terms:
Word Processing* , Pattern Recognition, Visual*, Humans ; Reading ; Visual Perception
Contributed Indexing:
Keywords: Systems factorial technology; Word recognition; Word superiority effect; Workload capacity
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20230716 Date Completed: 20230807 Latest Revision: 20230807
Update Code:
20250114
DOI:
10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103986
PMID:
37454588
Database:
MEDLINE

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The Word Superiority Effect (WSE) refers to the phenomenon where a single letter is recognized more accurately when presented within a word, compared to when it is presented alone or in a random string. However, previous research has produced conflicting findings regarding whether this effect also occurs in the processing of Chinese characters. The current study employed the capacity coefficient, a measure derived from the Systems Factorial Technology framework, to investigate processing efficiency and test for the superiority effect in Chinese characters and English words. We hypothesized that WSE would result in more efficient processing of characters/words compared to their individual components, as reflected by super capacity processing. However, contrary to our predictions, results from both the "same" (Experiment 1) and "different" (Experiment 2) judgment tasks revealed that native Chinese speakers exhibited limited processing capacity (inefficiency) for both English words and Chinese characters. In addition, results supported an English WSE with participants integrating English words and pseudowords more efficiently than nonwords, and decomposing nonwords more efficiently than words and pseudowords. In contrast, no superiority effect was observed for Chinese characters. To conclude, the current work suggests that the superiority effect only applies to English processing efficiency with specific context rules and does not extend to Chinese characters.
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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare no conflict of interest.