I am interested in making a suite of Unity Engine video games for second language acquisition in character based languages. The language of peak interest is Mandarin Chinese. Currently, I'm aware of the nature of how the characters are constructed from the fundamental 214 radicals. I'm now interested in understanding the cognitive steps to learning to write these characters. I'm looking for linguists or psychologists who can point me in the right direction so that I can optimize the game's serious elements.
Chinese logographic writing renders meaning through a symbol or picture, arbitrarily or vaguely related in terms of visual representation with the object or the notion it stands for, and is not initially based on phonological decoding although there is a word (pronunciation) attached to it. Please check my paper concerning the profiles for brain activation in reading Chinese characters DOI: 10.1016/S0911-6044(03)00027-7. I suggest, once you've got the neuroanatomy picture right, to come up with some brain training (neurofeedback) method to enhance the control of the respective areas and aim at character learning.
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