Abstract: Sixty Chinese university students were requested to recognize Chi-nese characters and nonsense shapes which were presented tachistosco-pically. The results showed that most subjects, both right-handedand left-handed, manifested bilateral effect of two hemispheres whenthey responded to stimuli. The percentage of subjects who showed novisual field difference in reading Chinese characters was 60% and inthe case of nonsence shapes, 56.66%. This experiment is different fromthose which test European-American subjects with, syllabic words asstimuli. It indicates that the Chinese subjects seem to follw a specialprocess in recognition.

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