Is Visual Selective Attention in Deaf Individuals Enhanced or Deficient? The Case of the Useful Field of View

BACKGROUND: Early deafness leads to enhanced attention in the visual periphery. Yet, whether this enhancement confers advantages in everyday life remains unknown, as deaf individuals have been shown to be more distracted by irrelevant information in the periphery than their hearing peers. Here, we s...

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Main Authors: Dye, Matthew W. G., Hauser, Peter C., Bavelier, Daphne
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680667/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19462009
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005640
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