Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students.

ABSTRACT: In low-level perceptual tasks and reading tasks, deaf individuals show a redistribution of spatial visual attention toward the parafoveal and peripheral visual fields. In the present study, the experiment adopted the modified flanker paradigm and utilized a lexical decision task to investigate how these unique visual skills may influence foveal lexical access in deaf individuals. It was predicted that irrelevant linguistic stimuli presented in parafoveal vision, during a lexical decision task, would produce a larger interference effect for deaf college student readers if the stimuli acted as distractors during the task. The results showed there was a larger interference effect in deaf college student readers compared to the interference effect observed in participants with typical levels o

SUBMITTER: Tao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6742358 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature