Semantic priming of Kanji words in the cerebral hemispheres.
Two experiments were conducted to investigate how the spreading activation arose in hemispheres using single and 2-letter Kanji words. Results suggested that single- and 2-letter Kanji words were processed differentially and the semantic activation mechanisms seemed to be different from that of English words.
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Naruto University of Education, Japan.
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D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology; D014825:Vocabulary