Writing facilitates learning to read in Chinese through reduction of holistic processing: a developmental study

Open Access JournalThis journal issue contains meeting abstracts presented at VSS 2012Holistic processing has been identified as an expertise marker of face and object recognition. In contrast, the expertise marker of recognizing Chinese characters is reduced holistic processing (Hsiao & Cottrell, 2009). We have recently shown that this reduction in holistic processing is driven by Chinese writing experiences rather than reading ability (Tso, Au, & Hsiao, 2011): Chinese literates who had limited writing exposure and thus …link_to_OA_fulltextThe 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2012), Naples, FL., 11-16 May 2012. In Journal of Vision, 2012, v. 12 n. 9, p. 53