title: Temporal dynamics of the consistency effect in reading Chinese: an event-related potentials study.
abstract: This study aimed to explore the temporal dynamics of the consistency effect in reading Chinese phonograms. High-consistency and low-consistency characters were used in the homophone judgment task, and the event-related potentials were recorded. The data showed that low-consistency characters elicited greater N170 amplitude in the temporal-occipital region and greater P200 amplitude in the frontal region than high-consistency characters, whereas high-consistency characters showed greater amplitude of the N400 negativity than low-consistency characters. These findings can be interpreted as indicating that low-consistency characters produce a greater activation for the initial analysis of the orthographical and phonological representations, whereas high-consistency characters involve a greater lexical competition in the later stage.
authors.affiliation: The Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. chiaying@gate.sinica.edu.tw
authors.forename: Chia-Ying
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jie-Li
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Wen-Hsuan
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Chun-Hsien
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: Daisy L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Ovid J L
authors.initials: OJ
authors.lastname: Tzeng
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D010700:Phonetics; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*