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Roder, Brigitte; Pagel, Birthe; Heed, Tobias – Cognition, 2013
The integrated use of spatial and temporal information seems to support the separation of two sensory streams. The present study tested whether this facilitation depends on the encoding of sensory stimuli in externally anchored spatial coordinate systems. Fifty-nine children between 5 and 12 years as well as 12 young adults performed a crossmodal…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Children, Adults
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Cormier, Kearsy; Schembri, Adam; Vinson, David; Orfanidou, Eleni – Cognition, 2012
Age of acquisition (AoA) effects have been used to support the notion of a critical period for first language acquisition. In this study, we examine AoA effects in deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users via a grammaticality judgment task. When English reading performance and nonverbal IQ are factored out, results show that accuracy of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Grammar, Sign Language, Second Language Learning