Exploring the effect of constructionalability in character writing for Chinese

Author

Wei Cui ; Wengang Yin ; Yuxiao Xie

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Mental Health, Inst. of Psychol., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

7-9 July 2014

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

442

Abstract

This study investigated the writing abilities of 15 brain-damaged patients, with and without drawing difficulties. The task was Chinese character copying. All brain-damaged patients had difficulties in copying characters; however, drawing-disable made this task much more difficult. We also found that the structure of Chinese character is an important influencing factor in character copying. The probability of the enclosed structure characters to be copied incorrectly is higher than the characters of other three structures, and single structure characters are most likely to be written correctly.

Keywords

biomechanics; brain; injuries; patient diagnosis; statistical analysis; Chinese character copying; Chinese character structure; Chinese character writing; brain-damaged patient writing abilities; constructionalability effect; drawing difficulty; drawing disability; enclosed structure character copying probability; incorrect copying probability; influencing factor; single structure character copying probability; Buildings; Character recognition; Cognition; Hospitals; Periodic structures; Psychology; Writing; Chinese character; constructional apraxia; drawing; writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3902-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALIP.2014.7009832

Filename

7009832