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Article: Foveal splitting causes differential processing of Chinese orthography in the male and female brain
Title | Foveal splitting causes differential processing of Chinese orthography in the male and female brain |
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Keywords | Chinese character pronunciation Connectionist modeling Foveal splitting Gender difference Phonological processing |
Issue Date | 2005 |
Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cogbrainres |
Citation | Cognitive Brain Research, 2005, v. 25 n. 2, p. 531-536 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Chinese characters contain separate phonetic and semantic radicals. A dominant character type exists in which the semantic radical is on the left and the phonetic radical on the right; an opposite, minority structure also exists, with the semantic radical on the right and the phonetic radical on the left. We show that, when asked to pronounce isolated tokens of these two character types, males responded significantly faster when the phonetic information was on the right, whereas females showed a non-significant tendency in the opposite direction. Recent research on foveal structure and reading suggests that the two halves of a centrally fixated character are initially processed in different hemispheres. The male brain typically relies more on the left hemisphere for phonological processing compared with the female brain, causing this gender difference to emerge. This interaction is predicted by an implemented computational model. This study supports the existence of a gender difference in phonological processing, and shows that the effects of foveal splitting in reading extend far enough into word recognition to interact with the gender of the reader in a naturalistic reading task. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/168994 |
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dc.contributor.author | Hsiao, JHW | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Shillcock, R | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-08T03:40:32Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-08T03:40:32Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Cognitive Brain Research, 2005, v. 25 n. 2, p. 531-536 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0926-6410 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/168994 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Chinese characters contain separate phonetic and semantic radicals. A dominant character type exists in which the semantic radical is on the left and the phonetic radical on the right; an opposite, minority structure also exists, with the semantic radical on the right and the phonetic radical on the left. We show that, when asked to pronounce isolated tokens of these two character types, males responded significantly faster when the phonetic information was on the right, whereas females showed a non-significant tendency in the opposite direction. Recent research on foveal structure and reading suggests that the two halves of a centrally fixated character are initially processed in different hemispheres. The male brain typically relies more on the left hemisphere for phonological processing compared with the female brain, causing this gender difference to emerge. This interaction is predicted by an implemented computational model. This study supports the existence of a gender difference in phonological processing, and shows that the effects of foveal splitting in reading extend far enough into word recognition to interact with the gender of the reader in a naturalistic reading task. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cogbrainres | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Cognitive Brain Research | en_US |
dc.subject | Chinese character pronunciation | - |
dc.subject | Connectionist modeling | - |
dc.subject | Foveal splitting | - |
dc.subject | Gender difference | - |
dc.subject | Phonological processing | - |
dc.subject.mesh | Adult | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Brain - Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Brain Mapping | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Dominance, Cerebral - Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Female | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Language | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Male | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Mental Processes - Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Pattern Recognition, Visual - Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Phonetics | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Reaction Time - Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Sex Characteristics | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Visual Fields | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Vocabulary | en_US |
dc.title | Foveal splitting causes differential processing of Chinese orthography in the male and female brain | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Hsiao, JHW:jhsiao@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Hsiao, JHW=rp00632 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.005 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 16154326 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-26644445701 | en_US |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-26644445701&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 25 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 531 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 536 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000233076400012 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Hsiao, JHW=7101605473 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Shillcock, R=6603785348 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citeulike | 341190 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0926-6410 | - |