The present study was conducted to examine whether traditional and simplified Chinese readers (TCRs and SCRs) differed in stroke encoding in character processing by an eye-tracking experiment. We recruited 66 participants (32 TCRs and 34 SCRs) to read sentences comprising characters with different proportions and types of strokes removed in order to explore whether any visual complexity effect existed in their processing of simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The present study found a cross-script visual complexity effect and that SCRs were more influenced by visual complexity change in lexical access than were TCRs. In addition, the stroke-order effect appeared to be more salient for TCRs than for SCRs.

中文翻译：

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句子阅读中汉字的笔画编码过程。

本研究的目的是通过眼动追踪实验来检查繁体和简体中文阅读器（TCR和SCR）在字符处理中的笔画编码方面是否有所不同。我们招募了66名参与者（32个TCR和34个SCR）来阅读包含去除了不同比例和笔画类型的字符的句子，以探讨在处理简体和繁体汉字时是否存在视觉复杂性的影响。本研究发现了跨脚本的视觉复杂性效应，并且与TCR相比，SCR受词汇访问中视觉复杂性变化的影响更大。另外，TCR的冲程顺序效应似乎比SCR更为明显。