The Effect of Visual Working Memory Consolidation on Long-Term Memory for Chinese Characters

this study aims to explore the effect of visual working memory consolidation on long-term memory for Chinese characters. Furthermore, by distinguishing the intrinsic and extrinsic contexts of Chinese characters, it examines whether visual working memory consolidation can more effectively bind contextual information to the target characters, thereby improving long-term memory performance for characters. Research on this issue will help one to understand the nature of Chinese character processing in beginner Chinese character learners and provide practical support for teaching Chinese characters to children. Our hypotheses are as follows: H1: Compared to target characters without visual working memory consolidation, characters with visual working memory consolidation will have better long-term memory performance; H2: Under visual working memory consolidation, characters will have better long-term memory performance in the context condition than in the no-context condition.

本研究旨在探究视觉工作记忆巩固（visual working memory consolidation）对汉字长时记忆的影响。进一步而言，通过区分汉字的内在语境与外在语境，本研究将检验视觉工作记忆巩固能否更高效地将语境信息绑定至目标汉字，进而提升汉字的长时记忆表现。针对该议题的相关研究，有助于阐明初学汉字学习者的汉字加工本质，并为儿童汉字教学提供实践支持。本研究提出如下假设：H1：与未经过视觉工作记忆巩固的目标汉字相比，经过视觉工作记忆巩固的汉字将具备更优异的长时记忆表现；H2：在视觉工作记忆巩固条件下，处于语境条件中的汉字，其长时记忆表现将优于无语境条件下的汉字。