Publications

Authors:

Cattaneo, Zaira; Lega, Carlotta; Cecchetto, Carlo; Papagno, Costanza

Title:

Auditory deprivation affects biases of visuospatial attention as measured by line bisection

Year:

2014

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

Experimental Brain Research

ISSN of journal:

0014-4819

N° Volume:

232

Number or Folder:

9

:

+

Page numbers:

2767-2773

Keyword:

deaf; line bisection; lateralization; sign language; pseudoneglect; hemispheres

Short description of contents:

In this study, we investigated whether early deafness affects the typical pattern of hemispheric lateralization [i.e., right hemisphere (RH) dominance] in the control of spatial attention. To this aim, deaf signers, deaf non-signers, hearing signers, and hearing non-signers were required to bisect a series of centrally presented visual lines. The directional bisection bias was found to be significantly different between hearing and deaf participants, irrespective of sign language use. Hearing participants (both signers and non-signers) showed a consistent leftward bias, reflecting RH dominance. Conversely, we observed no evidence of a clear directional bias in deaf signers or non-signers (deaf participants overall showing a non-significant tendency to deviate rightward), suggesting that deafness may be associated to a more bilateral hemispheric engagement in visuospatial tasks.

Web page:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-3960-7

Product ID:

96708

Handle IRIS:

11562/959946

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Cattaneo, Zaira; Lega, Carlotta; Cecchetto, Carlo; Papagno, Costanza, Auditory deprivation affects biases of visuospatial attention as measured by line bisection «Experimental Brain Research» , vol. 232 , n. 9 , 2014 , pp. 2767-2773

Consulta la scheda completa presente nel repository istituzionale della Ricerca di Ateneo