Contribution of finger tracing to the recognition of Chinese characters

Finger tracing is a simulation of the act of writing without the use of pen and paper. It is claimed to help in the processing of Chinese characters, possibly by providing additional motor coding. In this study, blindfolded subjects were equally good at identifying Chinese characters and novel visua...

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Vydané v:International journal of language & communication disorders Ročník 35; číslo 4; s. 561 - 571
Hlavní autori: Yim‐Ng, Yuet‐Yee, Varley, Rosemary, Andrade, Jackie
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Oxford, UK Informa UK Ltd 01.10.2000
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Predmet:
Adult
Aged
Chinese
Chinese reading
Female
Fingers
Form Perception - physiology
Handwriting
Humans
Ideographs
Kinaesthesia
Kinesics
Kinesthesis - physiology
Language Therapy
Letter Recognition
Male
Memory - physiology
Middle Aged
Proprioception - physiology
Touch - physiology
tracing
visuo-spatial coding
ISSN:1368-2822, 1460-6984
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Shrnutí:Finger tracing is a simulation of the act of writing without the use of pen and paper. It is claimed to help in the processing of Chinese characters, possibly by providing additional motor coding. In this study, blindfolded subjects were equally good at identifying Chinese characters and novel visual stimuli through passive movements made with the index finger of the preferred hand and those made with the last finger of that hand. This suggests that finger tracing provides a relatively high level of coding specific to individual characters, but non-specific to motor effectors. Beginning each stroke from the same location, i.e. removing spatial information, impaired recognition of the familiar characters and the novel nonsense figures. Passively tracing the strokes in a random sequence also impaired recognition of the characters. These results therefore suggest that the beneficial effect of finger tracing on writing or recall of Chinese characters is mediated by sequence and spatial information embedded in the motor movements, and that proprioceptive channel may play a part in mediating visuospatial information. Finger tracing may be a useful strategy for remediation of Chinese language impairments.
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ISSN:1368-2822
1460-6984
DOI:10.1080/136828200750001296