Beatrice Giustolisi|Karen Emmorey
Visual Statistical Learning With Stimuli Presented Sequentially Across Space and Time in Deaf and Hearing Adults
University of Milano-Bicocca|San Diego State University
abstract study investigated visual statistical learning vsl 24 deaf signers 24 hearing nonsigners previous research hearing individuals suggests sl mechanisms support literacy first goal assess whether vsl associated reading ability deaf individuals whether relation sustained link vsl sign language skill second goal test auditory scaffolding hypothesis makes prediction deaf people impaired sequential processing tasks vsl task adopted modified version triplet learning paradigm stimuli presented sequentially across space time results revealed measures sign language skill sentence comprehensionrepetition correlate vsl scores possibly due sequential nature vsl task reading comprehension scores piat r significant predictor vsl accuracy hearing deaf people finding might due sequential nature vsl task less salient role sequential orthographytophonology mapping deaf readers compared hearing readers two groups differ vsl scores however reading ability taken account vsl scores higher deaf group hearing group overall evidence inconsistent auditory scaffolding hypothesis suggesting humans develop efficient sequencing abilities even absence sound