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Johnson, Jeanne M.; Ruder, Kenneth F. – 1986
A study compared the performance of congenitally deaf signers (N=39) and hearing individuals (N=39) on a bilateral tachistoscopic task. Subjects were exposed to pretested linguistic and nonlinguistic stimuli during the task. Analysis of response time indicated that deaf subjects were slower to respond than were hearing subjects across all…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis, Deafness


