Open AccessVisual span of detection and recognition of a kanji character embedded in a horizontal row of random hiragana characters[Note 1. This research was supported by a Grant‐in‐Aid for Scientific ...]
Author(s) -
Matsuda Masayuki
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
japanese psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5884
pISSN - 0021-5368
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5884.00084
Subject(s) - kanji , kana , character (mathematics) , reading (process) , psychology , artificial intelligence , speech recognition , communication , computer science , chinese characters , natural language processing , pattern recognition (psychology) , mathematics , linguistics , geometry , philosophy
Two experiments were conducted to determine the visual span of detection and recognition of the kanji character embedded in a horizontal row of random hiragana characters. An independent variable was the visual complexity of the kanji characters: simple and complex. In Experiment 1, visual spans of detection were determined by a staircase method. Values of visual spans were more than 15 character spaces for the complex kanji characters, and ranged from 4 to 10 character spaces (mean 7.6) for the simple kanji characters. In Experiment 2, visual spans of recognition were determined by an ascending series of limits method. Values of visual spans ranged from 0 to 4 character spaces (mean 2.3) for the complex kanji characters and from 3 to 7 character spaces (mean 4.8) for the simple kanji characters. These results are discussed in relation to reading of Japanese kanji‐kana mixed texts.