Attentional enhancements and deficits in deaf populations: An integrative review

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 181-192

  Dye, Matthew W G ^a   Bavelier, Daphne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Cross modal plasticity; Deafness; RSVP; Spatial attention; Temporal segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL ATTENTION;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952396298     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2010-0501     Document Type: Review

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