When deaf signers read English: Do written words activate their sign translations?

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 286-292

  Morford, Jill P ^a,b   Wilkinson, Erin ^a,c   Villwock, Agnes ^a,d   Piñar, Pilar ^a,e   Kroll, Judith F ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Deaf; Sign language; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; READING; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651105537     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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