The mechanism for orthography-to-phonology transformations in Naming Chinese characters:An integrated research of cognitive experiments and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies
博士 === 國立中正大學 === 心理學研究所 === 89 === This dissertation presents an integrative approach to investigate the Chinese pronunciation model and its neural correlates. A series of traditional naming of characters and pseudocharacters were used to demonstrate the psychological reality of the mappings betwee...
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2000
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25509135578636996318 |
| Summary: | 博士 === 國立中正大學 === 心理學研究所 === 89 === This dissertation presents an integrative approach to investigate the Chinese pronunciation model and its neural correlates. A series of traditional naming of characters and pseudocharacters were used to demonstrate the psychological reality of the mappings between Chinese orthography and phonology. The consistency by frequency interaction could be found in naming phonograms with or without freestanding phonetic radicals. It suggested the statistical correspondence (consistency) between orthographic and phonological patterns is a better index for predicting the naming performance of Chinese characters and pseudocharacters. Furthermore, the phonetic radicals exist as computation units mainly because they are structures that systematically occur within Chinese characters, but not because they are required for the recognition of their freestanding version. Two fMRI studies demonstrate the psychological reality of the consistency effect on neural basis and suggested the inferior frontal area, inferior parietal area and left fusiform gyrus on the left hemisphere as being related to the Chinese orthography-phonology transformations. Implications for the integration of these results into theoretical models of Chinese character pronunciation are discussed.
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