The effects of visual complexity for Japanese kanji processing with high and low frequencies

Reading and Writing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 205-223

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a   Kiyama, Sachiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

13th stroke boundary; Japanese kanji; Kanji frequency; Strokes; Visual complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872946742     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-012-9363-x     Document Type: Article

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