Laboratoire Cognition Langage, Développement (LCLD), Centre de Recherche Cognition et Neurosciences (CRCN), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Av. F. Roosevelt, 50, CP 191 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
Behav Res Methods. 2017 Dec;49(6):2093-2112. doi: 10.3758/s13428-016-0844-8.
Written symbols such as letters have been used extensively in cognitive psychology, whether to understand their contributions to written word recognition or to examine the processes involved in other mental functions. Sometimes, however, researchers want to manipulate letters while removing their associated characteristics. A powerful solution to do so is to use new characters, devised to be highly similar to letters, but without the associated sound or name. Given the growing use of artificial characters in experimental paradigms, the aim of the present study was to make available the Brussels Artificial Character Sets (BACS): two full, strictly controlled, and portable sets of artificial characters for a broad range of experimental situations.
书面符号，如字母，在认知心理学中得到了广泛应用，无论是理解它们对书面文字识别的贡献，还是研究其他心理功能所涉及的过程。然而，有时研究人员希望在去除字母相关特征的同时操作字母。一种强有力的解决方案是使用新字符，这些字符设计得与字母高度相似，但没有相关的声音或名称。鉴于人工字符在实验范式中的使用越来越多，本研究的目的是提供布鲁塞尔人工字符集（BACS）：两套完整、严格控制且可移植的人工字符集，适用于广泛的实验情境。
