Abstract
The lateralisation of lexical knowledge of Chinese characters is investigated in this study. Three experiments were conducted in which stimuli were presented unilaterally to a visual field for recognition tests. The orthographic similarity of two alternative items for choice in Experiment 1 was manipulated, and the results showed an LVF advantage effect for legal characters in the visually similar condition and a more prominent LVF than RVF character-superiority effect. The phonological similarity of two alternative items for choice was manipulated in Experiment 2. The results showed a prominent RVF advantage effect and a significant phonological similarity effect in the RVF. In Experiment 3, the semantic similarity was manipulated, and the semantic similarity effect was observed in the RVF. These results suggest hemisphere asymmetries in accessing lexical knowledge of Chinese characters.
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