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EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 230, Issue 3, Pages 283-289Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3653-7
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Haptic spatial perception; Deafness; Sign language usage
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The present study investigated haptic spatial orientation processing in deaf signers, hearing sign language interpreters, and hearing controls. Blindfolded participants had to set two bars parallel in the horizontal plane, with either a 2-s or a 10-s delay between inspection of the reference bar and the setting of the test bar. The deaf group outperformed the other two groups which did not differ from each other. Together these results indicate that deaf individuals can better identify the allocentric spatial coordinates of haptically inspected orientations. These results are discussed in terms of the possible neurocognitive consequences of auditory deprivation.
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