Scientific article
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Deafness and visual enumeration: not all aspects of attention are modified by deafness

Published inBrain Research, vol. 1153, no. Jun 11, p. 178-187
Publication date2007
Abstract

Previous studies have demonstrated that early deafness causes enhancements in peripheral visual attention. Here, we ask if this cross-modal plasticity of visual attention is accompanied by an increase in the number of objects that can be grasped at once. In a first experiment using an enumeration task, Deaf adult native signers and hearing non-signers performed comparably, suggesting that deafness does not enhance the number of objects one can attend to simultaneously. In a second experiment using the Multiple Object Tracking task, Deaf adult native signers and hearing non-signers also performed comparably when required to monitor several, distinct, moving targets among moving distractors. The results of these experiments suggest that deafness does not significantly alter the ability to allocate attention to several objects at once. Thus, early deafness does not enhance all facets of visual attention, but rather its effects are quite specific.

Keywords
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Attention/physiology
  • Deafness/physiopathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Visual
  • Photic Stimulation/methods
  • Reaction Time/physiology
  • Sign Language
  • Visual Fields/physiology
  • Visual Perception/physiology
NoteRubrique: Research Report
Affiliation entities Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
HAUSER, Peter C. et al. Deafness and visual enumeration: not all aspects of attention are modified by deafness. In: Brain Research, 2007, vol. 1153, p. 178–187. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.065
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