Fig 1.
Examples of composite faces created from the original face.
The left-left composite face looks more similar to the original face than the right-right composite face.
Fig 2.
Examples of mirror symmetrical Chinese characters.
Same set of characters in (a) Ming Font and (b) Feng Font.
Fig 3.
Examples of left (LL) and right (RR) chimeric and mirror (RL) Chinese characters created from original mirror-symmetric characters (LR).
Characters are presented in both Ming and Feng fonts in all three character types: (a) shared, (b) simplified, and (c) traditional characters.
Fig 4.
Placement of fingers and procedure in a left-side bias task.
Table 1.
Mainland simplified Chinese readers and Taiwan traditional Chinese readers’ performance in reading and writing tasks.
Fig 5.
Left-side bias in perceiving shared characters in simplified and traditional Chinese readers and novices of Chinese (means and 95% CIs).
Asterisks indicate significant Left-side bias (one sample t-test against the chance level .5) in each condition separately; * p < .05; ** p < .01.
Table 2.
Left-side bias in perceiving shared, simplified, and traditional Chinese characters in simplified and traditional Chinese readers and novices of Chinese.
Fig 6.
Left-side bias in perceiving simplified characters in simplified and traditional Chinese readers and novices of Chinese (means and 95% CIs).
Asterisks indicate significant Left-side bias (one sample t-test against the chance level .5) in each condition separately; * p < .05; ** p < .01.
Fig 7.
Left-side bias in perceiving traditional characters in simplified and traditional Chinese readers and novices of Chinese (means and 95% CIs).
Asterisks indicate significant Left-side bias (one sample t-test against the chance level .5) in each condition separately; * p < .05; ** p < .01.