Abstract
Publisher Summary Traditionally, the only dimension considered a relevant variable in the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigations of reading and writing Japanese is phonemically-based versus visually-based dimension, attributed to kana and kanji, respectively. Differences in performance for kana and kanji are interpreted in terms of differential visual or auditory processing. This chapter summarizes all the other dissociation patterns in addition to main dissociation patterns such as better performance for kanji than for hiragana, better performance for reading hiragana than for katakana, better performance for writing katakana and kanji than for writing hiragana, better performance for kanji numerals than for Arabic numerals, and performance for Arabic numerals better than for kana. Also summarized in the chapter are task-specific dissociations such as better writing of kanji than of kana but better reading of kana than of kanji, alexia with selective agraphia for kanji, and better reading comprehension for kanji with better writing performance for kana.
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