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Jizheng Zhao1, Jiangang Liu, Jun Li

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Inverting Chinese characters shifts brain processing from language areas to visual object recognition areas. This suggests upright and inverted characters are processed by distinct neural mechanisms.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Expertise influences visual stimulus perception, particularly orientation effects.
  • Neural mechanisms of inverted Chinese character processing remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural effects of inverting Chinese characters using fMRI.
  • To compare neural responses to inverted characters with faces and houses.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment.
  • Stimuli included Chinese characters, faces, and houses.
  • Region of interest (ROI) and whole-brain analyses were conducted.

Main Results:

  • Inversion increased neural responses for characters in character-preferential and object-preferential areas.
  • Character inversion effects mirrored face processing more than house processing.
  • Upright characters activated language regions; inverted characters activated visual processing regions.

Conclusions:

  • Inverted Chinese characters shift processing from a character-specific route to a general object recognition pathway.
  • Distinct neural mechanisms likely underlie upright and inverted Chinese character processing.