Hemispheric Asymmetries in Deaf and Hearing During Sustained Peripheral Selective Attention.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown that compared to hearing individuals, early deaf individuals allocate relatively more attention to the periphery than central visual field. However, it is not clear whether these two groups also differ in their ability to selectively attend to specific peripheral locations. We examined deaf and hearing participants' selective attention using electroencephalography (EEG) and a frequency tagging paradigm, in which participants attended to one of two peripheral displays of moving dots that changed directions at different rates. Both participant groups showed similar amplifications and reductions in the EEG signal at the attended and unattended frequencies, indicating similar control over their peripheral attention for motion stimuli. However, for deaf participants

SUBMITTER: Gwinn OS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6951033 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature