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AuthorMegreya, Ahmed M.
AuthorBindemann, Markus
Available date2021-02-08T09:14:55Z
Publication Date2017
Publication NameScientific Reports
ResourceScopus
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep41133
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/17631
AbstractIt is unresolved whether the permanent auditory deprivation that deaf people experience leads to the enhanced visual processing of faces. The current study explored this question with a matching task in which observers searched for a target face among a concurrent lineup of ten faces. This was compared with a control task in which the same stimuli were presented upside down, to disrupt typical face processing, and an object matching task. A sample of young-adolescent deaf observers performed with higher accuracy than hearing controls across all of these tasks. These results clarify previous findings and provide evidence for a general visual processing advantage in deaf observers rather than a face-specific effect.
Languageen
PublisherNature Publishing Group
TitleA visual processing advantage for young-adolescent deaf observers: Evidence from face and object matching tasks
TypeArticle
Volume Number7
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