Chinese offers a test for universal cognitive processes.
Ming YanReinhold KlieglPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2023)
The Chinese writing system is unique in its implementation of graphemic, phonological, morphological, and semantic features. We add nuances to its portrait in the target article and highlight research on radically different timelines of phonological and semantic activation during reading of Chinese and alphabetic script, paving the way for the identification of universal and culture-specific cognitive processing.