Visual letter similarity effects in Korean word recognition: The role of distinctive strokes.

IF 1.5 3区心理学 Q4 PHYSIOLOGY

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI:10.1177/17470218241278600

Sungbong Bae, Chang H Lee, Hye K Pae

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Abstract

While the impact of visual letter similarity on word recognition in the Latin script has been extensively documented using masked priming techniques, research into non-Latin scripts such as Hangul remains limited. Hangul letters are systematically formed by adding one or two strokes to the base form, creating a pool of visually similar letters in the inventory. This study investigated the role of added distinctive strokes in word recognition by employing two experimental tasks: a lexical decision task (Experiment 1) and a same-different word matching task (Experiment 2). The results of Experiment 1 revealed a visual similarity effect only for primes without distinctive strokes, indicating an asymmetry in the priming effects. Conversely, Experiment 2 showed that visually similar primes facilitated target word processing regardless of the presence of the distinctive stroke, indicating no asymmetric priming effect. These findings suggest initial uncertainty of letter identity during Korean word processing and the processing of distinctive strokes in differentiating visually similar words.

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EXPRESS：韩语单词识别中的视觉字母相似性效应：独特笔画的作用

虽然视觉字母相似性对拉丁字母单词识别的影响已经通过掩蔽引物技术得到了广泛的记录，但对韩文等非拉丁字母的研究仍然有限。韩文字母是通过在基本形式上添加一个或两个笔画而系统形成的，从而在库存中形成视觉相似性字母库。本研究通过两个实验任务：词性判断任务（实验 1）和同异词匹配任务（实验 2），研究了添加的独特笔画在单词识别中的作用。实验 1 的结果显示，视觉相似性效应仅适用于无明显笔画的预设，这表明引物效应不对称。相反，实验 2 显示，无论是否存在独特笔画，视觉相似的预设都会促进目标单词的处理，这表明不存在非对称的引物效应。这些研究结果表明，在韩语单词处理过程中，字母身份的初始不确定性以及在区分视觉相似单词时对独特笔画的处理。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 医学-生理学

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

5.90%

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178

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

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