AUTOMATIC PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING IN READING A ONE-CHARACTER KANJI WORD

Specialization of phonological and semantic processing in Chinese word reading.

The purpose of this study was to examine the neurocognitive network for processing visual word forms in native Chinese speakers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In order to compare the processing of phonological and semantic representations, we developed parallel rhyming and meaning association judgment tasks that required explicit access and manipulation of these representat...

Extraction of Unknown Words Using the Probability of Accepting the Kanji Character Sequence as One Word

Music Reading Expertise Modulates Hemispheric Lateralization in English Word processing but not in Chinese Character Processing

Music notation and English word reading both involve mapping horizontally arranged visual components to components in sound, in contrast to reading in logographic languages such as Chinese. Accordingly, music-reading expertise may influence English word processing more than Chinese character processing. Here we showed that musicians named English words significantly faster than non-musicians wh...

Phonological processing in reading: data from alexia.

The reading of four subjects suffering from a phonological reading impairment as a result of a cerebral lesion was tested. A double dissociation observed in their results is strong evidence for the existence of two functionally independent kinds of phonological processing in reading--a graphemic and a phonetic one.

Rotated Kanji Character Recognition

We proposed a rotated character recognition method using eigen-subspace characterized multiple projection and simple projection. Then the multiple projections showed a higher accuracy at low dimensions than a simple projection for alphanumeric 62 categories. This time, we applied it for the first class of Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) Kanji set which includes 2,965 categories. As the resul...