A validation of parafoveal semantic information extraction in reading Chinese

Zhou, Wei; Kliegl, Reinhold; Yan, Ming

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9817.2013.01556.x

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“…They found negative priming from strategic expectation when the interval between prime and mask was longer (234 ms). The present results can also serve as an example to support a view by Yan, Risse, Zhou, and Kliegl (2012) and Zhou, Kliegl, and Yan (2013), who argued that when the prime is processed briefly, the semantic prime-target related representation of the target word is preactivated, leading to facilitatory effects. If the prime is processed for a relatively long time, however, nonoverlapping semantic representations start to cancel the facilitatory effects, presumably even turning a facilitatory effect into an inhibitory effect.…”

Section: Negative Priming With the Isi Between Prime And Masksupporting

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Inhibitory mechanisms in single negative priming from ignored and briefly flashed primes: The key role of the inter-stimulus interval

Wang

Zhao

Liu

et al. 2014

Consciousness and Cognition

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Section: Negative Priming With the Isi Between Prime And Masksupporting

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Inhibitory mechanisms in single negative priming from ignored and briefly flashed primes: The key role of the inter-stimulus interval

Wang

Zhao

Liu

et al. 2014

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Furthermore, semantic activations can feed back to the corresponding phonological and orthographical representations. This claim is further supported by eye movement findings: Yan et al (2009) reported a stronger semantic than a phonological parafoveal preview effect, and parafoveal semantic information is obtained very early (Yan, Risse, Zhou, & Kliegl, 2012;Zhou, Kliegl, & Yan, 2013); reliable phonological effects required both long preview durations and the high parafoveal processing efficiency afforded by highfrequency pretarget words (Tsai et al, 2012).…”

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Syllabic tone articulation influences the identification and use of words during Chinese sentence reading: Evidence from ERP and eye movement recordings

Luo

Yan

et al. 2015

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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In two experiments, we examined the contribution of articulation-specific features to visual word recognition during the reading of Chinese. In spoken Standard Chinese, a syllable with a full tone can be tone-neutralized through sound weakening and pitch contour change, and there are two types of two-character compound words with respect to their articulation variation. One type requires articulation of a full tone for each constituent character, and the other requires a full-and a neutral-tone articulation for the first and second characters, respectively. Words of these two types with identical first characters were selected and embedded in sentences. Native speakers of Standard Chinese were recruited to read the sentences. In Experiment 1, the individual words of a sentence were presented serially at a fixed pace while eventrelated potentials were recorded. This resulted in less-negative N100 and anterior N250 amplitudes and in more-negative N400 amplitudes when targets contained a neutral tone. Complete sentences were visible in Experiment 2, and eye movements were recorded while participants read. Analyses of oculomotor activity revealed shorter viewing durations and fewer refixations on-and fewer regressive saccades totarget words when their second syllable was articulated with a neutral rather than a full tone. Together, the results indicate that readers represent articulation-specific word properties, that these representations are routinely activated early during the silent reading of Chinese sentences, and that the representations are also used during later stages of word processing.

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“…To investigate whether visual limitation may constrain the parafoveal-on-foveal effects, we divided trials into two groups according to landing positions on the pre-target word (Inhoff, Radach, Starr, & Greenberg, 2000; Zhou, Kliegl, & Yan, 2013). In one group of trials (57% of trials), first-fixations were located on the first characters of the 2-character pre-target words, and in the other group (43% of trials), the fixations were located on the second characters.…”

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Readers extract character frequency information from nonfixated-target word at long pretarget fixations during Chinese reading.

Rayner³

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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We performed two eye movement studies to explore whether readers can extract character or word frequency information from nonfixated-target words in Chinese reading. In Experiments 1A and 1B, we manipulated the character frequency of the first character in a two-character target word and the word frequency of a two-character target word, respectively. We found that fixation durations on the pre-target words were shorter when the first character of a two-character target word was presented with high frequency. Such effects were not observed for word frequency manipulations of a two-character target word. In particular, further analysis revealed that such effects only occurred for long pre-target fixations. These results for character and word frequency manipulations were replicated in a within-subjects design in Experiment 2. These findings are generally consistent with the notion that characters are processed in parallel during Chinese reading. However, we did not find evidence that words are processed in parallel during Chinese reading.

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A validation of parafoveal semantic information extraction in reading Chinese

Cited by 27 publications

References 43 publications

Inhibitory mechanisms in single negative priming from ignored and briefly flashed primes: The key role of the inter-stimulus interval

Inhibitory mechanisms in single negative priming from ignored and briefly flashed primes: The key role of the inter-stimulus interval

Syllabic tone articulation influences the identification and use of words during Chinese sentence reading: Evidence from ERP and eye movement recordings

Readers extract character frequency information from nonfixated-target word at long pretarget fixations during Chinese reading.

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