A notable controversy in neurolinguistics is whether there is a particular brain area specialized for visual word recognition within the visual ventral stream. We investigated this question via implicit processing of Chinese characters. Implicit processing of four types of stimuli--real characters, pseudo characters, artificial characters, and checkerboard--in two different sizes, were compared...

This study aimed to explore the temporal dynamics of the consistency effect in reading Chinese phonograms. High-consistency and low-consistency characters were used in the homophone judgment task, and the event-related potentials were recorded. The data showed that low-consistency characters elicited greater N170 amplitude in the temporal-occipital region and greater P200 amplitude in the front...

In this paper we present a novel method to classify machine printed Chinese characters by matching the code strings generated from pseudo skeleton features. In our approach, the pseudo skeletons of Chinese characters are extracted rather than using skeletons extracted by traditional thinning algorithms. The features of the pseudo skeletons of both input and template characters are then encoded ...

In this paper, a problem of sub-word segmentation of printed Sindhi, an Arabic style scripting language, into characters is addressed. Printed or handwritten Sindhi text is cursive in nature. In the cursive writing, mostly the subsequent characters in a word are joined with each other. In the proposed segmentation algorithm, first of all, Height Profile Vector (HPV) of thinned primary stroke of...

Virtual characters in games operate in a social context involving other characters and human players. If such socially situated virtual characters are to be considered believable, they should be able to adjust their behavior based on beliefs about the mental states of other characters and human players. Autonomous BDI-based agents are suitable for modeling characters that exhibit such intention...

Space characters can have an important role in disambiguating text. However, few, if any, Chinese information extraction systems make full use of space characters. However, it seems that treatment of space characters is necessary, especially in cases of extracting information from semi-structured documents. This investigation aims to address the importance of space characters in Chinese informa...

To utilize a character information in scene images, character recognition and segmentation are required. Character segmentation is essential preliminary of character recognition. However, most character segmentation methods cannot extract isolated characters which do not constitute a character string, characters in a complex equation, touching characters where two characters are connected and s...

Admissiblê sl(2|1; C) k Characters and Parafermions. Abstract The branching functions of the affine superalgebrâ sl(2|1; C) k characters into characters of the subalgebrâ sl(2; C) k are calculated for fractional levels k = 1 u − 1, u ∈ N. They involve rational torus A u(u−1) and Z u−1 parafermion characters.