Tachistoscopic recognition of normal and mirror images of Kana and Kanji characters.
Accuracy of recognition was investigated for normal and mirror images of Kana (syllabic symbols) and Kanji (ideographic symbols) characters tachistoscopically presented in the left and right visual fields in normal right-handed Japanese subjects. A significant right field superiority was obtained for the recognition of each type of normal letter. In the case of mirrored letters, Kanji characters were better recognized in the right field while no lateral asymmetry for the recognition of Kana characters was shown. The results indicated that Kanji processing is somewhat different from the processing of Kana characters.
D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D014794:Visual Fields; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*