Working Memory, Deafness, 30 and Sign Language

ML Hall, D Bavelier - The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies …, 2003‏ - books.google.com
Working memory (WM) refers to the human capacity to encode, store, manipulate, and recall
information. A proper understanding of WM therefore provides essential insights into human …

Memory skills of deaf learners: Implications and applications

H Hamilton - American Annals of the Deaf, 2011‏ - muse.jhu.edu
The Author reviews research on working memory and short-term memory abilities of deaf
individuals, delineating strengths and weaknesses. Among the areas of weakness that are …

Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural implications of bimodal bilingualism

K Emmorey, MR Giezen, TH Gollan - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2016‏ - cambridge.org
Bimodal bilinguals, fluent in a signed and a spoken language, exhibit a unique form of
bilingualism because their two languages access distinct sensory-motor systems for …

Deaf children's non-verbal working memory is impacted by their language experience

C Marshall, A Jones, T Denmark, K Mason… - Frontiers in …, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Several recent studies have suggested that deaf children perform more poorly on working
memory tasks compared to hearing children, but these studies have not been able to …

[PDF][PDF] Information structure in Russian sign language and sign language of the Netherlands:(University of Amsterdam, 2014)

V Kimmelman - Sign Language & Linguistics, 2015‏ - vadimkimmelman.com
Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands Page 1
Sign Language & Linguistics 18:1 (2015), 142–150. doi 10.1075/sll.18.1.06kim issn 1387–9316 …

The role of iconicity and simultaneity for efficient communication: The case of Italian Sign Language (LIS)

A Slonimska, A Özyürek, O Capirci - Cognition, 2020‏ - Elsevier
A fundamental assumption about language is that, regardless of language modality, it faces
the linearization problem, ie, an event that occurs simultaneously in the world has to be split …

[ספר][B] On relativization and clefting

C Branchini - 2014‏ - degruyter.com
This chapter will be devoted to introducing some characteristics specific of languages in the
visual-gestural modality and providing the reader with the necessary basic knowledge on …

The contribution of phonological knowledge, memory, and language background to reading comprehension in deaf populations

EA Hirshorn, MWG Dye, P Hauser, TR Supalla… - Frontiers in …, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
While reading is challenging for many deaf individuals, some become proficient readers.
Little is known about the component processes that support reading comprehension in these …

Verbal and visual serial-order memory in deaf signers and hearing nonsigners: A systematic review and meta-analysis

TC McFayden, MK Gonzalez Aguiar… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2023‏ - Springer
Previous research suggests Deaf signers may have different short-term and working
memory processes compared with hearing nonsigners due to prolonged auditory …

Relatively different: Italian Sign Language relative clauses in a typological perspective

C Branchini, C Donati - Correlatives cross-linguistically, 2009‏ - degruyter.com
Italian Sign Language displays a dedicated structure expressing relativization: a biclausal
construction consisting of an embedded clause containing an antecedent, followed by a …