Tangent from comments here. Here are one or two links that have informed the refinement of my views on learning kanji, writing, literacy, et cetera. Feel free to post your own links for the reference of others. I'll number them as they are for easier reference. Also, with the links that lead only to abstracts, many of those titles can be Googled with links to full versions elsewhere.
1 Between Script and Pictures in Japan
2 There is No Language Instinct
3 Deaf Signers Who Know Japanese Remember Words and Numbers More Effectively Than Deaf Signers Who Know English
4 Neural representation of kana, kanji, and Arabic numbers in native Japanese speakers
5 Kanji: The Visual Metaphor
6 A Case in Haiku
7 Cognitive Effects of the LV Approach in Kanji Learners: A Novel Approach Using Learner’s Personal Visual Cognition
8 Literacy and Orality
9 Word naming and psycholinguistic norms: Chinese
10 Semantic effects in word naming: Evidence from English and Japanese Kanji
11 An Analysis of Imageability for Single Character Kanji Words with ON and KUN Pronunciations
12 Subliminal Convergence of Kanji and Kana Words: Further Evidence for Functional Parcellation of the Posterior Temporal Cortex in Visual Word Perception
13 The Time Course of Semantic and Phonological Access in Naming Kana and Kanji Words
14 Insights on How Readers. Process Japanese. Orthography in Two Different. Contexts: Universality in the Reading
15 Semantic involvement in the lexical and sentence processing of Japanese Kanji
16 Kanji versus Kana: neuropsychological correlates of the Japanese writing system
17 The role of interword spacing in reading Japanese: An eye movement study
18 The Stroop effect in kana and kanji scripts in native Japanese speakers: An fMRI study
19 Logographic Kanji versus Phonographic Kana in Literacy Acquisition
20 Modulation of the visual word retrieval system in writing: a functional MRI study on the Japanese orthographies
21 An Experimental Study of Kanji Information Processing
22 The sensitivity of native Japanese speakers to On and Kun kanji readings
23 Change in Script Usage in Japanese
24 An investigation into the structure and acquisition of orthographic knowledge: Evidence from cross-script Kanji-Hiragana priming
25 Multisensory Integration
26 Evidence against 'units of perception'
27 Orthographic puns: The case of Japanese kyoka
28 Teaching Japanese Toddlers to Read Kanji and Kana
29 A Japanese Perspective on Literacy and Biliteracy: A National Paper of Japan
30 Language and society in Japan
31 Computers vs. Literacy
32 Computers improve kanji reading, degrade writing
33 How iconic are Chinese characters?
34 'Blending' and an Interpretation of Haiku: A Cognitive Approach
35 Recognition and reading aloud of kana and kanji word: An fMRI study
36 Implicit and explicit processing of kanji and kana words and non-words studied with fMRI
37 A review of psychological studies of kana and kanji processing : A single phonological route to a multiple interactive activation
38 Homophonic and semantic priming of Japanese kanji words
39 Seeing ‘water’ in ‘desert’: Semantic radical activation in visual Japanese compound recognition
40 The Consistency of Multiple-Pronunciation Effects in Reading: The Case of Japanese Logographs
41 The semantic effect on retrieval of radicals in logographic characters
42 Are whole word kanji easier to learn than syllable kana?
43 Pigs will be chickens: reply to Tzeng and Singer
44 The Science of Word Recognition
45 The DRC Model of Visual Word Recognition and Reading Aloud
46 Letter-by-letter processing in the phonological conversion of multi-letter graphemes
47 The Role of Sublexical Graphemic Processing in Reading
48 An Investigation into Kanji Character Discrimination Process from EEG Signals
49 Neuromagnetic signals associated with reading a kanji character formed by combining two kanji radicals
50 Different interhemispheric transfer of kanji and kana writing evidenced by a case with left unilateral agraphia without apraxia
51 Chinese and Western dyslexics have different affected brain regions
52 Conversion of semantic information into phonological representation: a function in left posterior basal temporal area
53 Word Recognition Depends on Script [Edit: Corrected 404, though this link is probably repeated below anyway and you could have Googled the title.]
54 Lexical Access in Japanese
55 Positron emission tomography scans on kanji and kana
56 Perceptual Coherence of Chinese Characters: Orthographic Satiation and Disorganization
57 Reading in two writing systems: Accommodation and assimilation of the brain's reading network
58 An implicit test of Chinese orthographic satiation
59 Delays produced by prolonged viewing in the recognition of Kanji characters: analysis of the "Gestaltzerfall" phenomenon
60 Rethinking Writing
61 Lack of Phonological Mediation in a Semantic Categorization Task
62 Homophonic and Semantic Priming of Japanese Kanji Words: A Time Course Study
63 The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition
64 Literacy and Metalinguistic Awareness: A Cross-Cultural Study
65 Affective Learning: A Manifesto
66 The Neural System Underlying Chinese Logograph Reading
67 Secondary Orality
68 What Writing Represents
69 Writing Systems (Intro: "Writing and Linguistics'')
70 Flow
71 Metaphor and Iconicity (pp. 213-246, 225) Edit: New link, no preview, unfortunately.
72 Of Grammatology
73 Derrida on Karatani
74 Han-liang Chang on Derrida Edit: New link.
75 Sound, Scripts, and Styles: Kanbun kundokutai and the National Language Reforms of 1880s Japan
76 Nationalism and Écriture
77 Patterns of manga literacy and discourse
78 The Effects of Stroke Order and Radicals on the Knowledge of Japanese Kanji Orthography, Phonology and Semantics
79 An investigation of the recognition process for jukugo by use of priming paradigms
From other posts (some redundancies):
80 The Effect of Kana Literacy Acquisition on the Speech Segmentation Unit Used by Japanese Young Children
Phonological Analysis Abilities of Chinese and Japanese Children
Kana literacy acquisition and speech segmentation units
Can orthography influence second language syllabic segmentation?: Japanese epenthetic vowels and French consonantal clusters
Orthography shapes the perception of speech
85 Orthographic influences in spoken word recognition
Orthography, vision, and phonemic awareness
What Writing Represents
Reading spoken words: Orthographic effects in auditory priming
Use orthography in L2 auditory word learning
90 The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition (Nature)
The Reading Brain
Word Recognition Depends on Script
The Relationship between Phonemic Awareness and Cue Weighting in Speech Perception
Orthographic input and second language phonology
95 Effects of hanyu pinyin on pronunciation in learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Involvement of motor cortices in retrieval of kanji studied by functional MRI
Dysgraphia: Cognitive processes, remediation, and neural substrates
Transient Functional Suppression and Facilitation of Japanese Ideogram Writing Induced by Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Posterior Inferior Temporal Cortex
The Spacing Effect in Aircraft Recognition
100 Kanji Knowledge as Read-Only vs. Write-Only
Action Recognition in the Premotor Cortex
The case for sensorimotor coding in working memory
SR as Priming/Conditioning
Mental Time-Lines Follow Writing Direction
105 Language-based Rehearsal Loop in the Visuospatial Modality
Visual Motion Sensitivity and Literacy Skills in Japanese
Logographic Kanji versus Phonographic Kana in Literacy Acquisition
Visual presentation of single letters activates a premotor area involved in writing
Premotor activations in response to visually presented single letters depend on the hand used to write: a study on left-handers
110 Spacing practice sessions across days benefits the learning of motor skills
1 Between Script and Pictures in Japan
2 There is No Language Instinct
3 Deaf Signers Who Know Japanese Remember Words and Numbers More Effectively Than Deaf Signers Who Know English
4 Neural representation of kana, kanji, and Arabic numbers in native Japanese speakers
5 Kanji: The Visual Metaphor
6 A Case in Haiku
7 Cognitive Effects of the LV Approach in Kanji Learners: A Novel Approach Using Learner’s Personal Visual Cognition
8 Literacy and Orality
9 Word naming and psycholinguistic norms: Chinese
10 Semantic effects in word naming: Evidence from English and Japanese Kanji
11 An Analysis of Imageability for Single Character Kanji Words with ON and KUN Pronunciations
12 Subliminal Convergence of Kanji and Kana Words: Further Evidence for Functional Parcellation of the Posterior Temporal Cortex in Visual Word Perception
13 The Time Course of Semantic and Phonological Access in Naming Kana and Kanji Words
14 Insights on How Readers. Process Japanese. Orthography in Two Different. Contexts: Universality in the Reading
15 Semantic involvement in the lexical and sentence processing of Japanese Kanji
16 Kanji versus Kana: neuropsychological correlates of the Japanese writing system
17 The role of interword spacing in reading Japanese: An eye movement study
18 The Stroop effect in kana and kanji scripts in native Japanese speakers: An fMRI study
19 Logographic Kanji versus Phonographic Kana in Literacy Acquisition
20 Modulation of the visual word retrieval system in writing: a functional MRI study on the Japanese orthographies
21 An Experimental Study of Kanji Information Processing
22 The sensitivity of native Japanese speakers to On and Kun kanji readings
23 Change in Script Usage in Japanese
24 An investigation into the structure and acquisition of orthographic knowledge: Evidence from cross-script Kanji-Hiragana priming
25 Multisensory Integration
26 Evidence against 'units of perception'
27 Orthographic puns: The case of Japanese kyoka
28 Teaching Japanese Toddlers to Read Kanji and Kana
29 A Japanese Perspective on Literacy and Biliteracy: A National Paper of Japan
30 Language and society in Japan
31 Computers vs. Literacy
32 Computers improve kanji reading, degrade writing
33 How iconic are Chinese characters?
34 'Blending' and an Interpretation of Haiku: A Cognitive Approach
35 Recognition and reading aloud of kana and kanji word: An fMRI study
36 Implicit and explicit processing of kanji and kana words and non-words studied with fMRI
37 A review of psychological studies of kana and kanji processing : A single phonological route to a multiple interactive activation
38 Homophonic and semantic priming of Japanese kanji words
39 Seeing ‘water’ in ‘desert’: Semantic radical activation in visual Japanese compound recognition
40 The Consistency of Multiple-Pronunciation Effects in Reading: The Case of Japanese Logographs
41 The semantic effect on retrieval of radicals in logographic characters
42 Are whole word kanji easier to learn than syllable kana?
43 Pigs will be chickens: reply to Tzeng and Singer
44 The Science of Word Recognition
45 The DRC Model of Visual Word Recognition and Reading Aloud
46 Letter-by-letter processing in the phonological conversion of multi-letter graphemes
47 The Role of Sublexical Graphemic Processing in Reading
48 An Investigation into Kanji Character Discrimination Process from EEG Signals
49 Neuromagnetic signals associated with reading a kanji character formed by combining two kanji radicals
50 Different interhemispheric transfer of kanji and kana writing evidenced by a case with left unilateral agraphia without apraxia
51 Chinese and Western dyslexics have different affected brain regions
52 Conversion of semantic information into phonological representation: a function in left posterior basal temporal area
53 Word Recognition Depends on Script [Edit: Corrected 404, though this link is probably repeated below anyway and you could have Googled the title.]
54 Lexical Access in Japanese
55 Positron emission tomography scans on kanji and kana
56 Perceptual Coherence of Chinese Characters: Orthographic Satiation and Disorganization
57 Reading in two writing systems: Accommodation and assimilation of the brain's reading network
58 An implicit test of Chinese orthographic satiation
59 Delays produced by prolonged viewing in the recognition of Kanji characters: analysis of the "Gestaltzerfall" phenomenon
60 Rethinking Writing
61 Lack of Phonological Mediation in a Semantic Categorization Task
62 Homophonic and Semantic Priming of Japanese Kanji Words: A Time Course Study
63 The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition
64 Literacy and Metalinguistic Awareness: A Cross-Cultural Study
65 Affective Learning: A Manifesto
66 The Neural System Underlying Chinese Logograph Reading
67 Secondary Orality
68 What Writing Represents
69 Writing Systems (Intro: "Writing and Linguistics'')
70 Flow
71 Metaphor and Iconicity (pp. 213-246, 225) Edit: New link, no preview, unfortunately.
72 Of Grammatology
73 Derrida on Karatani
74 Han-liang Chang on Derrida Edit: New link.
75 Sound, Scripts, and Styles: Kanbun kundokutai and the National Language Reforms of 1880s Japan
76 Nationalism and Écriture
77 Patterns of manga literacy and discourse
78 The Effects of Stroke Order and Radicals on the Knowledge of Japanese Kanji Orthography, Phonology and Semantics
79 An investigation of the recognition process for jukugo by use of priming paradigms
From other posts (some redundancies):
80 The Effect of Kana Literacy Acquisition on the Speech Segmentation Unit Used by Japanese Young Children
Phonological Analysis Abilities of Chinese and Japanese Children
Kana literacy acquisition and speech segmentation units
Can orthography influence second language syllabic segmentation?: Japanese epenthetic vowels and French consonantal clusters
Orthography shapes the perception of speech
85 Orthographic influences in spoken word recognition
Orthography, vision, and phonemic awareness
What Writing Represents
Reading spoken words: Orthographic effects in auditory priming
Use orthography in L2 auditory word learning
90 The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition (Nature)
The Reading Brain
Word Recognition Depends on Script
The Relationship between Phonemic Awareness and Cue Weighting in Speech Perception
Orthographic input and second language phonology
95 Effects of hanyu pinyin on pronunciation in learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Involvement of motor cortices in retrieval of kanji studied by functional MRI
Dysgraphia: Cognitive processes, remediation, and neural substrates
Transient Functional Suppression and Facilitation of Japanese Ideogram Writing Induced by Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Posterior Inferior Temporal Cortex
The Spacing Effect in Aircraft Recognition
100 Kanji Knowledge as Read-Only vs. Write-Only
Action Recognition in the Premotor Cortex
The case for sensorimotor coding in working memory
SR as Priming/Conditioning
Mental Time-Lines Follow Writing Direction
105 Language-based Rehearsal Loop in the Visuospatial Modality
Visual Motion Sensitivity and Literacy Skills in Japanese
Logographic Kanji versus Phonographic Kana in Literacy Acquisition
Visual presentation of single letters activates a premotor area involved in writing
Premotor activations in response to visually presented single letters depend on the hand used to write: a study on left-handers
110 Spacing practice sessions across days benefits the learning of motor skills
Edited: 2011-04-03, 7:15 pm