sheng-ping Fang

• PhD
• National Tsing Hua University

Since Taiwanese readers have international and multicultural reading interests and habits, this study aims to develop a Chinese title recognition test, a translated title recognition test (TTRT), and a Chinese author recognition test as measures of print exposure for fifth graders in Taiwan, and to investigate the relative extent to which print-exp...

This study set out to develop a Chinese Author Recognition Test (CART) that might be used as a measure of objective print exposure for college students in Taiwan. We found that there is a linkage between print exposure and general reading achievement for college students. We also found that, among self-reported reading habits, comparative reading h...

This study examined whether differential word length effects in the two visual fields imply hemisphere-dependent modes of word recognition. Length was defined as the number of constituent characters of Chinese foreign names (Experiments 1 and 2), as the number of constituent morphemes of three-character words (Experiments 3 and 4), and as that of c...

This study questioned whether the so-called Chinese character–word difference in laterality patterns really exists. Experiments 1 to 3 examined the laterality patterns of 2 types of Chinese single characters, those that can serve as a word ( free morphemes) and those that cannot ( bound morphemes). Experiment 4 examined the laterality patterns of 3...

Explored the relationship between greater right visual field (RVF) superiorities for longer English words and the Chinese character word difference in laterality patterns. Exp 1 examined the laterality patterns of Chinese 2- to 5-character lower-frequency words with 22 university students and found only a length effect. Exp 2 examined the lateralit...

A Chinese compound character consists of a radical component and a stem component. When compound characters were presented briefly, Ss often reported seeing illusory recombinations of radicals and stems. A series of 5 experiments suggested that the probability of seeing illusory characters is not under the direct influence of lexicality, pronouncea...

The relation between word processing strategy and the orthographic structure of a written language was explored in the present study. Three experiments were conducted using Chinese-English, Spanish-English, and Japanese-English bilinguals, respectively. Each subject was asked to perform a modified Stroop color-naming task in which the stimulus and...