Sign language experience has little effect on face and biomotion perception in bimodal bilinguals.

ABSTRACT: Sensory and language experience can affect brain organization and domain-general abilities. For example, D/deaf individuals show superior visual perception compared to hearing controls in several domains, including the perception of faces and peripheral motion. While these enhancements may result from sensory loss and subsequent neural plasticity, they may also reflect experience using a visual-manual language, like American Sign Language (ASL), where signers must process moving hand signs and facial cues simultaneously. In an effort to disentangle these concurrent sensory experiences, we examined how learning sign language influences visual abilities by comparing bimodal bilinguals (i.e., sign language users with typical hearing) and hearing non-signers. Bimodal bilinguals and hearing non

SUBMITTER: Lammert JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504335 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature