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題名: | Chinese characters elicit face-like N170 inversion effects | 作者: | 郭柏呈 Kuo, Bo-Cheng Wang, Man-Ying Cheng, Shih-Kuen |
貢獻者: | 心理系 | 關鍵詞: | N170; \r\nChinese characters; \r\nFaces; \r\nInversion effect; \r\nConfigural processing | 日期: | 2011 | 上傳時間: | 21-May-2014 | 摘要: | Recognition of both faces and Chinese characters is commonly believed to rely on configural information. While faces typically exhibit behavioral and N170 inversion effects that differ from non-face stimuli (Rossion, Joyce, Cottrell, & Tarr, 2003), the current study examined whether a similar reliance on configural processing may result in similar inversion effects for faces and Chinese characters. Participants were engaged in an orientation judgment task (Experiment 1) and a one-back identity matching task (Experiment 2). Across two experiments, the N170 was delayed and enhanced in magnitude for upside-down faces and compound Chinese characters, compared to upright stimuli. The inversion effects for these two stimulus categories were bilateral for latency and right-lateralized for amplitudes. For simple Chinese characters, only the latency inversion effects were significant. Moreover, the size of the right-hemisphere inversion effects in N170 amplitude was larger for faces than Chinese characters. These findings show the N170 inversion effects from non-face stimuli closely parallel effects seen with faces. Face-like N170 inversion effects elicited by Chinese compound characters were attributed to the difficulty of part-whole integration as well as the disrupted regularity in relational information due to inversion. Hemispheric difference in Chinese character processing is also discussed. | 關聯: | Brain and Cognition, 77(3), 419-431 | 資料類型: | article | DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2011.08.016 |
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