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›› 1992, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (02): 10-16.

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A NEW EXPLORATION ON THE EFFECT OF STROKE-NUMBER IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF CHINESE CHARACTERS

Yu Bolin;Cao Heqi Institute of Psychology, Academia Sinica, Beijing   

  • Published:1992-06-25 Online:1992-06-25

Abstract: Adopting the task of naming,the present research examined the res- ponse time(RT)of characters with high and low frequencies in the range from 2 to 15 strokes, it was discovered that (1) the RT of naming was the function of stroke-number,but basically there was no change in RT in a few small ranges of the stroke; (2) there was effect of frequency in the naming task. Finally, by using the hypothesis of parallel processing of the whole character and morphological structure, the present research preliminarily explored the mechanisms of the effects of the stroke number and the frequency.

Key words: Chinese, identification, stroke frequency