scholarly journals Music-reading expertise modulates the visual span for English letters but not Chinese characters

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Sara T. K. Li ◽  
Susana T. L. Chung ◽  
Janet H. Hsiao
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Music Reading ◽  
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.

Diagram for Fire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Bialecki
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Music Reading ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
The Will ◽  
Evangelical Movement ◽  
Economic Choices ◽  
Charismatic Christianity

What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How are miracles something that are at once unanticipated, and yet worked for? Finally, what do miracles tell us about Christianity, and even about the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with those questions through an detailed ethnographic study of the Vineyard, a Southern-California originated American Evangelical movement known for believing that biblical-style miracles are something that all Christians can perform today. This book sees the miracle a resource and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, and as an immanently-situated and fundamentally social means of producing change that operates through taking surprise and the unexpected, and using it to reimagine and reconfigure the will. A Diagram for Fire shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices such as prophesy, speaking in tongues, healing, and battling demons; but it also shows how the miraculous as a configuration also ends up shaping other practices that seem far from the miracle, such as a sense of temporality, music, reading, economic choices, and both conservative and progressive political imaginaries. This book suggests that the open potential of the miracle, and the ironic constriction of the miracle’s potential through the intentional attempt to embrace it, has much to tell us not only about how contemporary Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity both functions and changes, but about an underlying mutability that plays an important role in Christianity and even in religion writ large.

The Sogdian envoy Maniach and his namesakes in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-197
Author(s):  
Wang Ding
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Chinese Court

AbstractChinese sources document foreign names with phonetic transcriptions and render them in Chinese characters with close, or at least approximate, sound value. Among the Sogdians who were active at the Chinese court of the 6th century there were two persons named He Zhuruo and An Weiruo respectively. The etymology of both names can now be tentatively identified with Maniach, the name which was recorded in a Byzantine source, being that of a Sogdian envoy to Constantinople. Hence the original written form of Zhuruo and Weiruo can be restored with the spelling Moruo. The reason for these misspellings goes back to the graphic similarity of the concerned characters. Some further emendations of similar kinds are also proposed.

A study of

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (0) ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
min Yi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Characters
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