Deafness and visual enumeration: Not all aspects of attention are modified by deafness

Brain Research

Volumn 1153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 178-187

  Hauser, Peter C ^a   Dye, Matthew W G ^b   Boutla, Mrim ^b   Green, C Shawn ^b   Bavelier, Daphne ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Deafness; Enumeration; Multiple Object Tracking; Plasticity; Subitizing; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249108296     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.065     Document Type: Article

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