The effect of visual working memory consolidation on long-term memory for Chinese characters

Abstract

Chinese characters are pictographic writing that expresses information using two-dimensional space, formed by intersecting and connecting strokes. Compared to alphabetic languages, its orthographic rules are more complex. Proficient Chinese reading and writing abilities require encoding a large number of characters into long-term memory. Visual working memory consolidation plays a very important role in the long-term memory processing of information. Therefore, this study uses a stimuli-identification task and a delayed recognition task through three experiments to explore the effect of visual working memory consolidation on long-term memory for Chinese characters. The results show that based on context information under special attributes, visual working memory consolidation leads to better long-term memory performance for characters.