Visual skills and cross-modal plasticity in deaf readers: Possible implications for acquiring meaning from print

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1145, Issue , 2008, Pages 71-82

  Dye, Matthew W G ^a   Hauser, Peter C ^b   Bavelier, Daphne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross modal plasticity; Deaf; Distractibility; Reading; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISTRACTIBILITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; READING; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 57449114732     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1416.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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