AI Article Synopsis
- Repetition blindness (RB) is a phenomenon where people fail to notice repeated items when shown quickly in a sequence.
- Two experiments demonstrated that participants struggled to report two identical or similar characters when presented rapidly, but had no issue with different characters.
- RB occurred for whole characters at longer presentation times (over 50 ms with one character in between) and for subcharacter components at shorter times (under 50 ms with no characters in between), highlighting how we process Chinese characters.
Article Abstract
Repetition blindness (RB) refers to the failure to detect the second occurrence of a repeated item in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). In two experiments using RSVP, the ability to report two critical characters was found to be impaired when these two characters were identical (Experiment 1) or similar by sharing one repeated component (Experiment 2), as opposed to when they were different characters with no common components. RB for the whole character occurred when the exposure duration was more than 50 ms with one intervening character between the two critical characters (lag=1), whereas RB for subcharacter components was more evident at exposure durations shorter than 50 ms with no intervening character (lag=0). These results provide support for the model of sublexical processing in Chinese character recognition.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0093-934x(03)00146-9 | DOI Listing |
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