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- Title
The effects of visual complexity for Japanese kanji processing with high and low frequencies.
- Authors
Tamaoka, Katsuo; Kiyama, Sachiko
- Abstract
The present study investigated the effects of visual complexity for kanji processing by selecting target kanji from different stroke ranges of visually simple (2-6 strokes), medium (8-12 strokes), and complex (14-20 strokes) kanji with high and low frequencies. A kanji lexical decision task in Experiment 1 and a kanji naming task in Experiment 2 were administered to native Japanese speakers. Results of both experiments showed that visual complexity inhibited the processing of low-frequency kanji, whereas such consistent, inhibitory effects of visual complexity were not observed in the processing of high-frequency kanji. Kanji with medium complexity were processed faster than simple and complex kanji in high frequency.
- Subjects
JAPAN; JAPANESE writing; KANJI; LINGUISTIC complexity; VISUAL learning; BRUSHWORK
- Publication
Reading & Writing, 2013, Vol 26, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0922-4777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11145-012-9363-x