Gestaltzerfall refers to a psychological phenomenon where delays in recognition are observed when a kanji character is stared at for a while. A study has shown that delays are most significant when the characters are of the same size. When characters to recognize are of different sizes, delays are observed only when they are of different patterns
Extracted from Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestaltzerfall
I was talking to my friend over msn when he give me this term along with the meaning on this website: koohi forum topic. In short, this is actually a form of recongised mental blockage due to excessive expourse to a particular kanji. It is quite common among people who is learning Japanese and Chinese. Have you ever suffer from this before? Care to share?
If you're memorizing kanji "blindly" without knowing why a kanji / pictogram is made up of such piece of tiny strokes, then yes. Your brain will burn out due to excessive memorization in a short period of time.
ReplyDeleteGetting to know the tiny strokes' meaning will help you easier in recalling and lift the burden of your brain processing task in long term.