Investigating transposed-character preview benefits in Chinese reading

These data relate to two experiments that examined effects of tranposed character previews on target word processing in Chinese reading. Both experiments used the boundary paradigm and two-character target words. In Experiment 2, the frequency of this word was manipulated so that targets were either high or low in frequency. Both experiments used valid previews that were identical to the target words, and invalid previews that were either transposed-character previews created by reversing the order of characters in the target word or unrelated previews. Two types of unrelated preview were used: visually-similar previews were created by replacing the two characters in target word with visually-similar characters. Visually-dissimilar unrelated previews were created by replacing these characters with visually dissimilar characters. Data files are included for both experiments (exp1 and exp2) alongwith associated R scripts for analyses.

本数据集涉及两项实验，旨在探究字符换位预览（transposed character previews）对中文阅读中目标词加工的影响。两项实验均采用边界范式（boundary paradigm）与双字符目标词。实验2中，研究者对目标词的词频进行操纵，使目标词分为高词频与低词频两类。两项实验均设置了与目标词完全一致的有效预览，以及两类无效预览：一类是通过反转目标词内字符顺序生成的字符换位预览，另一类为无关预览。本次研究共设置两类无关预览：视觉相似预览——将目标词的两个字符替换为视觉相似字符所生成；视觉不相似无关预览——将目标词的字符替换为视觉不相似字符所生成。数据集包含两项实验（exp1与exp2）的数据文件，以及用于数据分析的配套R脚本。