An associative account of Orthographic Satiation in Chinese characters

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• 作者：Jie Yuan ; Sarah Carr ; Guosheng Ding ; Shimin Fu ; John Xuexin Zhang
• 关键词：Orthographic Satiation ; Category membership task ; Speeded repetition priming ; Chinese character reading
• 刊名：Reading and Writing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：30
• 期：3
• 页码：631-651
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Language and Literature; Psycholinguistics; Education, general; Neurology; Literacy;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0905
• 卷排序：30

文摘

Prolonged inspection of a Chinese character induces a feeling of uncertainty of the character, a phenomenon named as Orthographic Satiation. However, there has not been direct evidence showing that such satiation does occur at the orthographic level. To investigate whether Chinese satiation occurs at the orthographic level or at other levels, the present study applies a speeded repetition priming paradigm to Chinese, which has been successfully used to examine Semantic Satiation in English. When judging whether a category name matched an exemplar word, participants showed gradually slower responses as the character standing for the category name was repeated, indicating the occurrence of satiation. However, repetition of a character without accessing its meaning, or repeated access to its meaning without repeating the character itself, did not elicit satiation. The results suggest Orthographic Satiation occurs not at the orthographic level, but at a level associating orthography and meaning during Chinese character reading.