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Giustolisi, Beatrice; Emmorey, Karen – Cognitive Science, 2018
This study investigated visual statistical learning (VSL) in 24 deaf signers and 24 hearing non-signers. Previous research with hearing individuals suggests that SL mechanisms support literacy. Our first goal was to assess whether VSL was associated with reading ability in deaf individuals, and whether this relation was sustained by a link between…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Task Analysis, Correlation
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Hawson, Anne – Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue, 1997
Three threshold hypotheses proposed by Cummins (1976) and Diaz (1985) as explanations of data on the cognitive consequences of bilingualism are examined in depth and compared to one another. A neuroscientifically updated information-processing perspective on the interaction of second-language comprehension and visual-processing ability is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing
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Kim, Jeesun; Davis, Chris; Burnham, Denis; Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn – Brain and Language, 2004
The current research examined performance of good and poor readers of Thai on two tasks that assess sensitivity to dynamic visual displays. Readers of Thai, a complex alphabetic script that nonetheless has a regular orthography, were chosen in order to contrast patterns of performance with readers of Korean Hangul (a similarly regular language but…
Descriptors: Written Language, Visual Stimuli, Thai, Reading Skills