Cognitive Adaptations Arising from Non-Native Experience of Sign Language in Hearing Adults

Three experiments examined spatial transformation abilities in hearing people who acquired sign language in early adulthood. The non-native hearing signers were compared to hearing people with no knowledge of sign language, matched for age and gender. Using an adapted Corsi blocks paradigm, the expe...

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Main Authors: Keehner, Madeleine, Gathercole, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: The Psychonomics Society 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26074