The Influence of Prime Time on Transposition Effect of Chinese Four-character: An ERP Study

Abstract

Abstract: Prime paradigm combined with recording event-related potentials was used to explore the changing process of brain potentials during dealing with Chinese character position information. In experiment 1, the priming time was set on 80 ms. We found that, within the time window 150 ms~250 ms and 250 ms~550 ms, there was no significant difference in brain potentials between different prime conditions. In experiment 2, the priming time was set on 200 ms. we found that, within the two time window, there was significant difference in brain potentials between different prime conditions. The results suggested that:1) under the prime condition of short time, there was no significant difference between the prime effect of transposed pseudo-word or substitued pseudo-word with that of origninal word. The difference between position information and identity information was not shown in brain potential. 2) under the prime condition of long time, the transposed effect was shown on brain potentialds. Chinese character identity information begin to play a role. 3) the coding of Chinese character identity information predates that of character position information.

Key words: four-character Chinese pseudo-word, transposed effect, letter position coding, letter identity coding, ERP

摘要： 启动范式结合脑电记录技术，探讨汉字位置信息加工的脑电位的变化进程。实验一启动时间为80 ms，结果发现，在150 ms–；250 ms和250 ms–；550 ms时间窗内，不同启动条件没有出现脑电位的差异。实验二启动时间为200 ms，结果发现，两个时间窗内，不同启动条件之间脑电位显著不同。实验结果提示我们：（1）短时间启动条件下，换位假词和替换假词与其原词启动效果没有差异，位置信息和身份信息的差异没有在脑电上表现出来；（2）长时间启动条件下，词语换位效应在脑电上表现出来，汉字身份信息作用出现；（3）汉字身份编码早于汉字位置编码。

关键词: 四字假词, 换位效应, 汉字位置编码, 汉字身份编码, ERP

CLC Number:

B842

LI Yulin, YANG Fan, WANG Lin, SUI Xue. The Influence of Prime Time on Transposition Effect of Chinese Four-character: An ERP Study[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17(3): 296-303.

李昱霖, 杨帆, 王琳, 隋雪. 汉字位置信息加工的脑电变化进程[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2019, 17(3): 296-303.

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