Delineating picture and Chinese Character recognition: an ERP approach

Abstract

The logographic nature of the Chinese script has often been compared to alphabet scripts and argued that more visual-spatial analysis is required, given that character components are arranged in a fixed square shape (Tan et al., 2001). The analogy between characters and pictographs or line-drawings has led to some discussion of whether the two are similar or distinct in visual-spatial analysis particularly in the right occipital hemisphere (e.g. Yum et al., 2012; Zhang, et al., 2011). Using ERP’s method, this study aimed to address whether visual-spatial analysis of characters is dissociable from line drawings, particularly focusing at the initial occipital P100 ...