Do signers think differently? The processing of number parity in deaf participants.
Do signers think differently? The processing of number parity in deaf participants.
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10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70940-7
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2004-02-01
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Willmes, Klaus
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Iversen, Wiebke;Nuerk, Hans-Christoph;Willmes, Klaus
Discusses the processing of number parity in deaf participants. Number magnitude and number parity seem to be fundamental number representations. In this study we examine how parity and magnitude are represented in native signers. In signed face-to-face communication the addressee perceives a mirror image of what the sender produces. 20 prelingually deaf participants were tested. 19/1 were right/left dominant. Participants were instructed to decide whether a presented numeral was even or odd by pressing one of two response keys. One digit Arabic numerals were presented. Two experimental parts-counterbalanced across participants and preceded by 12 training trials-with different parity to response hand assignments were realized. The results indicate that both, magnitude representation (SNARC effect) and the semantic lexicon affect parity judgments of Arabic digits in deaf signers. We observed no language specific influence on number magnitude representation, since the orientation of the SNARC effect was identical to the hearing population. In sum, these findings suggest that even in an elementary number processing task, the structure of German Sign Language influences number representations in a specific way.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)