Concreteness effects in the processing of Chinese words

Brain and Language

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-68

  Zhang, Qin ^a   Guo, Chun Yan ^a   Ding, Jin Hong ^a   Wang, Zheng Yan ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Concreteness effect; Event related potentials; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCALP; STIMULUS; WORD CONCRETENESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 27844464459     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. C. Brown, and P. Hagoort The processing nature of the N400: Evidence from masked priming Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 5 1993 34 44
2. A.M.B. de Groot Representational aspects of word imageability and word frequency assessed through word association Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 15 1989 824 845
3. P. de Mornay Davies, and E. Funnell Semantic representation and ease of predication Brain and Language 73 2000 92 119
4. P.J. Holcomb Semantic priming and stimulus degradation: Implications for the role of the N400 in language processing Psychophysiology 30 1993 47 61
5. P.J. Holcomb, J. Kounios, J.E. Anderson, and W.C. West Dual-coding, context-availability, and concreteness effects in sentence comprehension: An electrophysiological investigation Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 25 1999 721 742
6. C. James The role of semantic information in lexical decisions Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 104 1975 130 136
7. F. Jessen, R. Heun, M. Erb, D.O. Granath, U. Klose, A. Papassotiropoulos, and W. Grodd The concreteness effect: Evidence for dual coding and context availability Brain and Language 74 2000 103 112
8. M.A. Just, and P.A. Carpenter A theory of reading: From eye fixations to comprehension Psychological Review 87 1980 329 354
9. J. Kounios, and P.J. Holcomb Structure and process in semantic memory: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and reaction times Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 121 1992 459 479
10. J. Kounios, and P.J. Holcomb Concreteness effects in semantic processing: ERP evidence supporting dual-coding theory Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 20 1994 804 823
11. J.F. Kroll, and J.S. Merves Lexical access for concrete and abstract words Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 12 1986 92 107
12. M. Kutas, and C. Van Petten Event-related brain potential studies of language P.K. Ackles J.R. Jennings M.G.H. Coles Advances in psychophysiology 1988 JAI Press Greenwich, CT 139 187
13. S. Monsell, M.C. Doyle, and P.N. Haggard Effects of frequency on visual word recognition tasks: Where are they? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 118 1989 43 71
14. A. Paivio Mental representations: A dual coding approach 1986 Oxford University Press New York
15. A. Paivio Dual coding theory: Retrospect and current status Canadian Journal of Psychology 45 1991 255 287
16. F. Pulvermüller Words in the brain's language Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 1999 253 336
17. S.E. Ransdell, and I. Fischler Memory in a monolingual mode: When are bilinguals at a disadvantage? Journal of Memory and Language 26 1987 392 405
18. H. Rubenstein, L. Garfield, and J.A. Millikan Homographic entries in the internal lexicon Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 9 1970 487 494
19. P. Schwanenflugel Why are abstract concepts hard to understand P.J. Schwanenflugel The psychology of word meanings 1991 Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ 223 250
20. P.J. Schwanenflugel, and E.J. Shoben Differential context effects in the comprehension of abstract and concrete verbal materials Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 9 1983 82 102
21. P.J. Schwanenflugel, K.K. Harnishfeger, and R.W. Stowe Context availability and lexical decisions for abstract and concrete words Journal of Memory and Language 27 1988 499 520
22. P.J. Schwanenflugel, and R.W. Stowe Context availability and the processing of abstract and concrete words in sentences Reading Research Quarterly 24 1989 114 126
23. G. Stone, and G.C. Van Orden Strategic control of processing in word recognition Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 19 1993 744 774
24. E.K. Warrington, and R.A. McCarthy Categories of knowledge: Further fractionations and an attempted integration Brain 110 1987 1273 1296
25. W.C. West, and P.J. Holcomb Imaginal,semantic,and surface-level processing of concrete and abstract words: An electrophysiological investigation Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 12 2000 1024 1038
26. Q. Zhang, and B.Y. Zhang Research on concreteness effects of Chinese two-character words Acta Psychologica Sinica 29 1997 216 224 (in Chinese, abstract in English)