Does font type influence the N200 enhancement effect in Chinese word recognition?

Extended categorization of conjunction object stimuli decreases the latency of attentional feature selection and recruits orthography-linked ERPs

“…Price and Devlin (2011) proposed that activation in the VWFA was driven by automatically accessed non-strategic feedback from higher areas, facilitating recognition of the perceptual features of words. Consistent with this proposal words also sometimes elicit later vision-related ERP components, including an N250 (Carreiras, Duñabeitia, & Molinaro, 2009;Grainger, Kiyonaga, & Holcomb, 2006) and N200 (Ruz & Nobre, 2008;Zhang et al, 2012;Zhou, Yin, Zhang, & Zhang, 2016), both of which are associated with orthographic processing. These later components often have a more dorsal scalp distribution than the postero-lateral N250 effects observed in studies of perceptual expertise.…”

“…A centro-parietal N200 component, peaking at about 220 milliseconds and measured from about 190 to 235 ms (e.g. Du et al, 2013;Zhou et al, 2016), is increased when the same word is presented twice, but not when the target word is preceded by an orthographically unrelated homophone . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license a certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.…”

Chinese characters are read using not only visual but also writing motor information

“…Studies have found that the N200 enhancement effect has a large effect size: the mean is 0.61 and the minimum is 0.51 (Du et al., 2014; Yin et al., 2020; Zhou et al., 2016). The N200 effect observed in the present study presented a similarly large effect size ( = 0.45) in the forward condition but a dissimilar, small effect size ( = 0.27) in the backward condition.…”

“…A target that matches its priming/prompt can elicit a widely distributed negative enhancement effect with a centro‐parietal focus around 200 ms after the onset of the target character (Zhang et al., 2012). Studies have demonstrated that the N200 enhancement effect reflects orthographic processing (Du et al, 2014; Zhang et al, 2013; Zhou et al, 2016), but not phonological, semantic, or visual feature processing (Du et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2012). As mentioned above, the N170 reflects a general orthographic information processing to distinguish characters and non‐characters, while the N200 reflects deep orthographic information processing to distinguish characters (e.g., “风” and “丸,”) with detailed orthographic features, including character strokes, radicals, and spatial display.…”

Extended categorization of conjunction object stimuli decreases the latency of attentional feature selection and recruits orthography-linked ERPs

“…A centro-parietal N200 component, peaking at about 220 milliseconds and measured from about 190 to 235 ms (e.g. Du et al, 2013;Zhou et al, 2016), is increased when the same word is presented twice, but not when the target word is preceded by an orthographically unrelated homophone (Zhang et al, 2012) or a semantically related word (Du et al, 2014). The effect also appears limited the Chinese words as opposed to non-native languages such as Korean (Zhang et al, 2012).…”