scholarly journals Visual span and cognitive factors affect Chinese reading speed

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (14) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Zhuoting Zhu ◽  
Yin Hu ◽  
Chimei Liao ◽  
Stuart Keel ◽  
Ren Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Chinese Reading ◽  
Visual Span

scholarly journals Perceptual Learning of Visual Span Improves Chinese Reading Speed

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 2357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuoting Zhu ◽  
Yin Hu ◽  
Chimei Liao ◽  
Ren Huang ◽  
Stuart Keel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Chinese Reading ◽  
Visual Span

scholarly journals The Trade-Off Between Format Familiarity and Word-Segmentation Facilitation in Chinese Reading

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingjing Chen ◽  
Yongsheng Wang ◽  
Bingjie Zhao ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Xuejun Bai
Keyword(s):  
Reading Time ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Chinese Reading ◽  
Facilitation Effect ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Word Boundaries ◽  
Total Reading Time ◽  
Chinese Undergraduates

In alphabetic writing systems (such as English), the spaces between words mark the word boundaries, and the basic unit of reading is distinguished during visual-level processing. The visual-level information of word boundaries facilitates reading. Chinese is an ideographic language whose text contains no intrinsic inter-word spaces as the marker of word boundaries. Previous studies have shown that the basic processing unit of Chinese reading is also a word. However, findings remain inconsistent regarding whether inserting spaces between words in Chinese text promotes reading performance. Researchers have proposed that there may be a trade-off between format familiarity and the facilitation effect of inter-word spaces. In order to verify this, this study manipulated the format familiarity via reversing the Chinese reading direction from right to left to investigate this issue in Experiment 1 and Experiment 2. The purpose of Experiment 1 was to examine whether inter-word spaces facilitated Chinese reading in an unfamiliar format. Experiment 1 was conducted that 40 native Chinese undergraduates read Chinese sentences from right to left on four format conditions. The results showed faster reading speed and shorter total reading time for the inter-word spaced format. Based on this finding, Experiment 2 examined whether the facilitation effect of inter-word spaces would reduce or disappear after improving the format familiarity; this experiment was conducted that 40 native Chinese undergraduates who did not participate in Experiment 1 read Chinese sentences from right to left on four format conditions after ten-day reading training. There was no significant difference between the total reading time and reading speed in the inter-word spaced format and unspaced format, which suggests that the facilitation effect of inter-word spaces in Chinese reading changed smaller. The combined results of the two experiments suggest that there is indeed a trade-off between format familiarity and the facilitation of word segmentation, which supports the assumption of previous studies.

Age effects on reading speed and visual span in peripheral vision

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1001-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Yu ◽  
S.-H. Cheung ◽  
S. T. L. Chung ◽  
G. E. Legge
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Vision ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Age Effects ◽  
Visual Span

scholarly journals Effect of letter spacing on visual span and reading speed

10.1167/7.2.2 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deyue Yu ◽  
Sing-Hang Cheung ◽  
Gordon E. Legge ◽  
Susana T. L. Chung
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
Visual Span

scholarly journals Aging and Pattern Complexity Effects on the Visual Span: Evidence from Chinese Character Recognition

Vision ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Xie ◽  
Lin Li ◽  
Sainan Zhao ◽  
Jingxin Wang ◽  
Kevin Paterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
High Complexity ◽  
Pattern Complexity ◽  
Visual Span ◽  
Sentence Reading ◽  
Age Related

Research suggests that pattern complexity (number of strokes) limits the visual span for Chinese characters, and that this may have important consequences for reading. With the present research, we investigated age differences in the visual span for Chinese characters by presenting trigrams of low, medium or high complexity at various locations relative to a central point to young (18–30 years) and older (60+ years) adults. A sentence reading task was used to assess their reading speed. The results showed that span size was smaller for high complexity stimuli compared to low and medium complexity stimuli for both age groups, replicating previous findings with young adult participants. Our results additionally showed that this influence of pattern complexity was greater for the older than younger adults, such that while there was little age difference in span size for low and medium complexity stimuli, span size for high complexity stimuli was almost halved in size for the older compared to the young adults. Finally, our results showed that span size correlated with sentence reading speed, confirming previous findings taken as evidence that the visual span imposes perceptual limits on reading speed. We discuss these findings in relation to age-related difficulty reading Chinese.

scholarly journals Changes in the visual span may explain the effect of letter spacing on reading speed

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 804-804
Author(s):  
D. Yu ◽  
S. H. Cheung ◽  
G. E. Legge ◽  
S. T. L. Chung
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
Visual Span

scholarly journals Age-related changes in the visual span, crowding and reading speed

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 1419
Author(s):  
Rong Liu ◽  
Bhavika Patel ◽  
MiYoung Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
Visual Span ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Age Related Changes

scholarly journals Visual span: A sensory bottleneck on reading speed

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 279-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Legge ◽  
H.-W. Lee ◽  
D. Owens ◽  
S.-H. Cheung ◽  
S. T. L. Chung
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
Visual Span

scholarly journals Context but not reading speed modulates transposed-word effects in Chinese reading

2021 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 103272
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Liu ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Jingxin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
Chinese Reading
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