Early deafness is thought to affect low-level sensorimotor processing such as selective attention, whereas bilingualism is thought to be strongly associated with higher order cognitive processing such as attention switching under cognitive load. This study explores the effects of bimodal-bilingualism (in American Sign Language and written English)…

A series of unordered recall tasks was administered to congenitally deaf subjects in three experiments using American Sign Language (ASL). The findings refuted the suffix effect resulting solely from sensory store differences or the effect arising from differences in processing "static" versus "changing-state" input.…

Looks at patterns of conceptual encoding in American Sign Language (ASL), drawing from adults' retellings of a story. Results suggest that ASL encodes a great deal of conceptual information about motion events, significantly more than English and presumably more than most other spoken languages. (Author/VWL)