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Bosworth, Rain G.; Petrich, Jennifer A. F.; Dobkins, Karen R. – Brain and Cognition, 2013
Previous studies have asked whether visual sensitivity and attentional processing in deaf signers are enhanced or altered as a result of their different sensory experiences during development, i.e., auditory deprivation and exposure to a visual language. In particular, deaf and hearing signers have been shown to exhibit a right visual field/left…
Descriptors: Children, Sensory Experience, Deafness, Motion
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Masataka, Nobuo – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Compared 6-month-old hearing infants' responsiveness to infant-directed and adult-directed signing. Results replicated those found with deaf infants, namely that infants showed greater attentional and affective responsiveness to infant-directed sign than to adult-directed sign, suggesting that infants are prepared to detect sign motherese…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Caregiver Speech, Child Language