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Written Chinese possesses several unique properties.Hence,it is interesting and important to study how written Chinese is processed.To this end,an event-related potential (ERP) study was conducted to investigate the electrophysiological properties of orthographic processing in recognizing Chinese characters using a color matching task in which participants matched the ink color of each presented character with that of a preceding pattern mask.The stimuli included real characters,pseudo-characters (character components appearing in the ordinary position),non-characters (character components appearing in the wrong position),and random stroke combinations.All stimuli elicited a clear negativity that was maximal 170 ms following character onset.The real and pseudo characters differed from the non-characters and stroke combinations in the amplitude of the N170 component.These results suggest that the positional information of character components is processed in character recognition.