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Peer reviewedHanson, Vicki L.; Lichtenstein, Edward H. – Cognitive Psychology, 1990
The primary language hypothesis of short-term memory coding was challenged by an experiment with eight normally hearing college students and a review of the literature about deaf subjects. Whether or not deaf signers recode printed words into sign depends on a variety of task and subject factors. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education
