Electrophysiological correlates of character transposition in two-character Chinese word identification

An ERP investigation of morpheme transposition in rapid serial visual presentation.

Abstract Semantic predictability is one of the important factors that influence word processing and recognition. Based on the SPaM paradigm (Self-paced reading + Masked priming), the present study explores the influence of semantic predictability on TL effects in Chinese and English. The findings show that in both languages, internal and final transpositions produce priming effect in low-predictability preceding and following contexts as well as in high-predictability following contexts. From the perspective of priming magnitude, internal transposition produces greater priming effect than final transposition in English, while in Chinese, final transposition produces greater priming effect than internal transposition. In high-predictability preceding contexts, internal and final transpositions reveal significant priming effect and initial transposition produces close-to-significant-level priming effect in English, while in Chinese, no significant priming effect is observed in initial, internal or final transpositions.

/pdf/the-influence-of-semantic-predictability-on-transposition-21cwhgde.pdf

The influence of semantic predictability on transposition effects in Chinese and English

The Power of Positive Reporting: Examining China's Anti-Epidemic National Image in Mainstream Media.

The present study examined the brain activity elicited by the hemispheric asymmetries and morpheme transposition of two-character Chinese words (canonical words, transposed words) and pseudowords using the event-related potentials (ERPs) with a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task. Electrophysiological results showed facilitation effects for canonical words with centrally presented visual fields (CVF) and right visual field (RVF) presentations but not with left visual field (LVF) presentations, as reflected by less negative N400 amplitudes. Moreover, more positive late positive component (LPC) amplitudes were observed for both canonical words and transposed words irrespective of the visual fields. More importantly, transposed words elicited a more negative N400 amplitude and a less positive LPC amplitude compared with the amplitudes elicited by canonical words for CVF and RVF presentations. For LVF presentations, transposed words elicited a less negative N250 amplitude than canonical words, and there was no significant difference between canonical words and transposed words in the N400 effect. Taken together, we concluded that character transposition facilitated the mapping of whole-word orthographic representation to semantic information in the LVF, as reflected by the N250 component, and such morpheme transposition influenced whole-word semantic processing in CVF and RVF presentations, as reflected by N400 and LPC components.

/pdf/electrophysiological-correlates-of-character-transposition-14hamnnmhs.pdf

Electrophysiological Correlates of Character Transposition in the Left and Right Visual Fields.

The attentional blink (AB) refers to the impaired identification of the second target (T2) when presented within approximately 500ms after the first target (T1). Although the AB is eliminated when two targets can be integrated into a single compound word, it remains unclear whether the lexico-semantic organization of translation equivalents modulates the magnitude of the AB. In the present study, we examined consecutive targets' processing in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm using Chinese-English translation equivalents and non-translation equivalents. The results demonstrated that an overall presence of the AB effect was observed when T1 and T2 were non-translation equivalents. However, the AB effect disappeared completely when the two target words were translation equivalents. Taken together, these findings suggest that Chinese-English bilinguals are translating intentionally between Mandarin and English, which facilitates lexical access to word meaning from the two languages at the initial stages of visual word processing. Furthermore, such lexico-semantic activation of translation equivalents attributes to the elimination of the AB.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10936-021-09820-0.pdf

Er-Hu Zhang

Papers

Electrophysiological correlates of character transposition in two-character Chinese word identification

Electrophysiological Correlates of Character Transposition in the Left and Right Visual Fields.

Lexico-semantic Activation of Translation Equivalents During the Attentional Blink.