Consistency and regularity, concepts that arise, respectively, from the connectionist and classical cognitive modeling work in alphabetic reading, are two ways to characterize the orthography-to-phonology mappings of written languages. These concepts have been applied to Chinese reading research despite important differences across writing systems, with mixed results concerning their relative importance. The present study of covert naming in Chinese is distinctive in testing the ERP effects of regularity and consistency in a fully orthogonal design. We found that consistency, but not regularity, affected the N170, P200 and N400 as well as pronunciation transcription accuracies, demonstrating a more prominent role of consistency than regularity in character naming, consistent with conclusions from English word naming. To capture a generalization across writing systems, we propose mapping congruence as a writing-system-independent way of referring to orthography-to-phonology mappings and illustrate these congruence effects in an interactive framework of character identification.

一致性和规律性是分别从字母阅读中的联结主义和经典认知建模工作中产生的概念，是表征书面语言的正字法到音系映射的两种方式。尽管不同书写系统之间存在重要差异，但这些概念已被应用于中文阅读研究，其相对重要性的结果喜忧参半。目前的中文隐性命名研究在测试完全正交设计中规律性和一致性的ERP效应方面具有独特性。我们发现一致性而非规律性影响了 N170、P200 和 N400 以及发音转录的准确性，表明一致性在字符命名中的作用比规律性更突出，与英语单词命名的结论一致。映射同余作为一种独立于书写系统的方式，指的是拼写到音位的映射，并在字符识别的交互框架中说明这些同余效应。