{"pk":29916,"title":"How Hong Kong Preschoolers Perceive Chinese Characters: Are There AnyRelationships between the Effect of HP and Literacy Ability?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The present study examined the relationship between Holistic processing (HP), a well-established perceptual-expertisephenomenon for visual-object recognition, and Chinese literacy ability in Hong Kong preschoolers. The literacy abilityof participants was assessed by The Hong Kong Reading Ability Screening Test for Preschool Children (RAST-K); whileHP of Chinese characters was measured by adopting the complete composite paradigm from Hsiao & Cottrell (2009). Inline with the previous findings, preschoolers also showed HP in Chinese character perception, with a negative correlationbetween HP and writing ability when other measurements were controlled. This study provides a theoretical contributionon the study of Chinese writing difficulties among preschoolers. Educational implications will also be discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n92m5cx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Karen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wong","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Education University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Ronald","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chan","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Education University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Ricky","middle_name":"Van-yip","last_name":"Tso","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Education University of Hong Kong","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29916/galley/19770/download/"}]}