Nakagawa A
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa-ken, Japan.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 1994 Aug;20(4):864-75. doi: 10.1037//0096-1523.20.4.864.
A. Nakagawa (1991) showed hemispheric asymmetries during semantic processing of single English words. The right hemisphere passively maintained both strong and weak associations, whereas the left hemisphere maintained only strong associations when subjects were left free to attend. The present study extends the methodology to the study of Kanji characters. Contrary to the study of English characters, there was a general right-hemisphere advantage in single-character Kanji words. A study using a visual cue to direct attention suggested that the right-hemisphere advantage in Kanjii was due to better representation of visual features by the posterior right hemisphere. However, the pattern of semantic priming found in English was replicated. Semantic analysis, mediated by more anterior systems, appears similar in the 2 languages.
中川明（1991年）展示了在对单个英语单词进行语义加工时的半球不对称性。当受试者可以自由选择注意力时，右半球被动地维持强关联和弱关联，而左半球只维持强关联。本研究将该方法扩展到对汉字的研究中。与对英文字母的研究相反，在单个汉字词方面普遍存在右半球优势。一项使用视觉线索来引导注意力的研究表明，汉字中右半球优势是由于右半球后部对视觉特征的更好表征。然而，在英语中发现的语义启动模式得到了重复。由更靠前的系统介导的语义分析在这两种语言中似乎是相似的。
