TY - JOUR
T1 - The different time courses of reading different levels of Chinese characters
T2 - An ERP study
AU - Lu, Qilin
AU - Tang, Yi Yuan
AU - Zhou, Li
AU - Yu, Qingbao
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank anonymous reviewers for constructive and helpful comments. This research was supported by NSFC Grant 60971096 and 973 Project 2006CB504100.
PY - 2011/7/12
Y1 - 2011/7/12
N2 - The dual route processing was generally accepted in the reading of alphabetic languages, which suggests alphabetic words can be read by either addressed pathway or assembled pathway. However, it was still unclear whether there was a particular 'dual route mechanism' during reading Chinese characters. In our previous fMRI study, the result showed that there might be a particular 'dual route mechanism', and its addressed pathway was similar between Chinese and English, whereas for the need of spatial analysis, the assembled pathway of Chinese was different from that of English which involved grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences. The present study, using event-related potential, which provide more temporal information, aimed to further support our previous view, and peered inside the different time courses of reading different types of Chinese characters. It was found that reading high frequency Chinese characters increased the N170 component which was believed to enhance attention to the addressed pathway in the left occipital-temporal area. Pseudo Chinese characters could be read by a particular assembled pathway, which caused the largest amplitude of P320 component in the right occipital-temporal area, which considered as a key brain area for radical analysis.
AB - The dual route processing was generally accepted in the reading of alphabetic languages, which suggests alphabetic words can be read by either addressed pathway or assembled pathway. However, it was still unclear whether there was a particular 'dual route mechanism' during reading Chinese characters. In our previous fMRI study, the result showed that there might be a particular 'dual route mechanism', and its addressed pathway was similar between Chinese and English, whereas for the need of spatial analysis, the assembled pathway of Chinese was different from that of English which involved grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences. The present study, using event-related potential, which provide more temporal information, aimed to further support our previous view, and peered inside the different time courses of reading different types of Chinese characters. It was found that reading high frequency Chinese characters increased the N170 component which was believed to enhance attention to the addressed pathway in the left occipital-temporal area. Pseudo Chinese characters could be read by a particular assembled pathway, which caused the largest amplitude of P320 component in the right occipital-temporal area, which considered as a key brain area for radical analysis.
KW - Chinese character
KW - Dual route mechanism
KW - ERP
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959292219&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.03.061
DO - 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.03.061
M3 - Article
C2 - 21453752
AN - SCOPUS:79959292219
SN - 0304-3940
VL - 498
SP - 194
EP - 198
JO - Neuroscience Letters
JF - Neuroscience Letters
IS - 3
ER -