Reading of alphabetic writing systems, such as English, has been extensively studied and
most theories and models of reading are based on findings from these studies. This practice …

The extent to which unconscious information can influence behavior has been a topic of
considerable debate throughout the history of psychology. A frequently used method for …

The properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters explicitly taught in Chinese elementary
schools were systematically investigated, including types of characters, visual complexity …

Word-form encoding of disyllabic words in Mandarin Chinese was investigated with the
implicit priming paradigm. Experiments 1a and 1b examined implicit priming for two …

This paper proposes a shared, distributed, asymmetrical model for the bilingual mental
lexicon. To test the sharing of conceptual relations across translation equivalents …

The relative time course of semantic and phonological activation was investigated in the
context of whether phonology mediates access to lexical representations in reading …

Phonological and orthographic constraints on semantic activation in reading Chinese were
investigated using a phonologically mediated semantic priming technique. In Experiment 1 …

Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy
acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners …

This article reports the first ERP (event‐related potential) megastudy in traditional Chinese
word recognition. Fifty‐one native Chinese undergraduates in Hong Kong, who were native …

The effects of semantic and phonetic radicals on Chinese character decoding were
examined. Our results suggest that semantic and phonetic radicals are each available for …