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Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students
In low-level perceptual tasks and reading tasks, deaf individuals show a redistribution of spatial visual attention toward the parafoveal and peripheral visual fields. In the present study, the experiment adopted the modified flanker paradigm and utilized a lexical decision task to investigate how t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6742358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31513606 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221891 |
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author | Tao, Jiayu Qin, Zhao Meng, Zhu Zhang, Li Liu, Lu Yan, Guoli Benson, Valerie |
author_facet | Tao, Jiayu Qin, Zhao Meng, Zhu Zhang, Li Liu, Lu Yan, Guoli Benson, Valerie |
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description | In low-level perceptual tasks and reading tasks, deaf individuals show a redistribution of spatial visual attention toward the parafoveal and peripheral visual fields. In the present study, the experiment adopted the modified flanker paradigm and utilized a lexical decision task to investigate how these unique visual skills may influence foveal lexical access in deaf individuals. It was predicted that irrelevant linguistic stimuli presented in parafoveal vision, during a lexical decision task, would produce a larger interference effect for deaf college student readers if the stimuli acted as distractors during the task. The results showed there was a larger interference effect in deaf college student readers compared to the interference effect observed in participants with typical levels of hearing. Furthermore, deaf college student readers with low-skilled reading levels showed a larger interference effect than those with high-skilled reading levels. The current study demonstrates that the redistribution of spatial visual attention toward the parafoveal visual regions in deaf students impacts foveal lexical processing, and this effect is modulated by reading skill. The findings are discussed in relation to the potential effect that enhanced parafoveal attention may have on everyday reading for deaf individuals. |
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spelling | pubmed-67423582019-09-20 Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students Tao, Jiayu Qin, Zhao Meng, Zhu Zhang, Li Liu, Lu Yan, Guoli Benson, Valerie PLoS One Research Article In low-level perceptual tasks and reading tasks, deaf individuals show a redistribution of spatial visual attention toward the parafoveal and peripheral visual fields. In the present study, the experiment adopted the modified flanker paradigm and utilized a lexical decision task to investigate how these unique visual skills may influence foveal lexical access in deaf individuals. It was predicted that irrelevant linguistic stimuli presented in parafoveal vision, during a lexical decision task, would produce a larger interference effect for deaf college student readers if the stimuli acted as distractors during the task. The results showed there was a larger interference effect in deaf college student readers compared to the interference effect observed in participants with typical levels of hearing. Furthermore, deaf college student readers with low-skilled reading levels showed a larger interference effect than those with high-skilled reading levels. The current study demonstrates that the redistribution of spatial visual attention toward the parafoveal visual regions in deaf students impacts foveal lexical processing, and this effect is modulated by reading skill. The findings are discussed in relation to the potential effect that enhanced parafoveal attention may have on everyday reading for deaf individuals. Public Library of Science 2019-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6742358/ /pubmed/31513606 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221891 Text en © 2019 Tao et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tao, Jiayu Qin, Zhao Meng, Zhu Zhang, Li Liu, Lu Yan, Guoli Benson, Valerie Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students |
title | Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students |
title_full | Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students |
title_fullStr | Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students |
title_full_unstemmed | Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students |
title_short | Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students |
title_sort | reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6742358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31513606 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221891 |
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