Effects of attention and laterality on motion and orientation discrimination in deaf signers

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-126

  Bosworth, Rain G ^a   Petrich, Jennifer A F ^b   Dobkins, Karen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Deaf; Discrimination; Laterality; Motion; Orientation; Perception; Sign language; Visual field asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRIGHTNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DEAFNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876133707     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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