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On the Deployment of Spatial Attention to Parafoveal Chinese Characters : An Event-Related Potential Investigation

Using the event-related potential (ERP) technique and a visual search paradigm, the current study tested whether asymmetries in attention allocation policy between the two visual hemispheres may be the cause of previously reported asymmetries in reading parafoveal Chinese characters. Participants categorized eccentrically displayed color-defined items as Chinese character or non-character while ignoring contralaterally displayed distractor characters. The ERP time-locked to the onset of the array of characters showed an N2pc component. Critically, the N2pc was comparable in amplitude at left and right posterior electrode sites. These results suggest that attention is necessary for reading parafoveal Chinese characters. However, the absence of hemispheric asymmetries in attention deployment to left and right target characters suggests that differences in attention allocation policy between the two hemispheres are unlikely to be the root cause of overt performance asymmetries in reading parafoveal Chinese characters. The dynamics of spatial attention deployment in reading parafoveal Chinese characters are discussed.