Is visual selective attention in deaf individuals enhanced or deficient? the case of the useful field of view

Dye, Matthew W G; Hauser, Peter C; Bavelier, Daphné

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005640

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Is visual selective attention in deaf individuals enhanced or deficient? the case of the useful field of view

ContributorsDye, Matthew W G; Hauser, Peter C; Bavelier, Daphné

Published inPLOS ONE, vol. 4, no. 5, e5640

Publication date2009

Abstract

Early deafness leads to enhanced attention in the visual periphery. Yet, whether this enhancement confers advantages in everyday life remains unknown, as deaf individuals have been shown to be more distracted by irrelevant information in the periphery than their hearing peers. Here, we show that, in a complex attentional task, a performance advantage results for deaf individuals.

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Attention/physiology
Child
Female
Humans
Male
Persons With Hearing Impairments
Sign Language
Task Performance and Analysis
Visual Fields/physiology
Visual Perception/physiology

Affiliation Not a UNIGE publication

Research group

Brain & Learning Lab

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DYE, Matthew W G, HAUSER, Peter C, BAVELIER, Daphné. Is visual selective attention in deaf individuals enhanced or deficient? the case of the useful field of view. In: PLOS ONE, 2009, vol. 4, n° 5, p. e5640. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005640

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PID : unige:102969
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0005640
PMID : 19462009

Commercial URLhttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005640

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