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Giustolisi, Beatrice; Emmorey, Karen – Cognitive Science, 2018
This study investigated visual statistical learning (VSL) in 24 deaf signers and 24 hearing non-signers. Previous research with hearing individuals suggests that SL mechanisms support literacy. Our first goal was to assess whether VSL was associated with reading ability in deaf individuals, and whether this relation was sustained by a link between…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Task Analysis, Correlation
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Hoemann, Harry W.; Kreske, Catherine M. – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Describes a study that found, contrary to previous reports, that a strong, symmetrical release from proactive interference (PI) is the normal outcome for switches between American Sign Language (ASL) signs and English words and with switches between Manual and English alphabet characters. Subjects were college students enrolled in their first ASL…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis
Griffith, Douglas; Actkinson, Tomme R. – 1978
The drivers in a battalion about to be deployed to Germany were taught the meanings of international road signs using one of the following techniques: Sign Only, in which the road signs were presented via a slide projector and the names of the slides provided orally by the instructor; Sign Elaboration, which was identical to the Sign Only…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Armed Forces, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis