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- Title
Visual span of detection and recognition of a kanji character embedded in a horizontal row of random hiragana characters.
- Authors
Matsuda, Masayuki
- Abstract
Two experiments were conducted to determine the visual span of detection and recognition of the kanji character embedded in a horizontal row of random hiragana characters. An independent variable was the visual complexity of the kanji characters: simple and complex. In Experiment 1, visual spans of detection were determined by a staircase method. Values of visual spans were more than 15 character spaces for the complex kanji characters, and ranged from 4 to 10 character spaces (mean 7.6) for the simple kanji characters. In Experiment 2, visual spans of recognition were determined by an ascending series of limits method. Values of visual spans ranged from 0 to 4 character spaces (mean 2.3) for the complex kanji characters and from 3 to 7 character spaces (mean 4.8) for the simple kanji characters. These results are discussed in relation to reading of Japanese kanji-kana mixed texts.
- Subjects
JAPAN; KANJI; JAPANESE writing; RECOGNITION (Psychology)
- Publication
Japanese Psychological Research, 1998, Vol 40, Issue 3, p125
- ISSN
0021-5368
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-5884.00084