ERIC Number: EJ1174622
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Publication Date: 2018-Apr
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Early Sign Language Experience Goes along with an Increased Cross-Modal Gain for Affective Prosodic Recognition in Congenitally Deaf CI Users
Fengler, Ineke; Delfau, Pia-Céline; Röder, Brigitte
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, v23 n2 p164-172 Apr 2018
It is yet unclear whether congenitally deaf cochlear implant (CD CI) users' visual and multisensory emotion perception is influenced by their history in sign language acquisition. We hypothesized that early-signing CD CI users, relative to late-signing CD CI users and hearing, non-signing controls, show better facial expression recognition and rely more on the facial cues of audio-visual emotional stimuli. Two groups of young adult CD CI users--early signers (ES CI users; n = 11) and late signers (LS CI users; n = 10)--and a group of hearing, non-signing, age-matched controls (n = 12) performed an emotion recognition task with auditory, visual, and cross-modal emotionally congruent and incongruent speech stimuli. On different trials, participants categorized either the facial or the vocal expressions. The ES CI users more accurately recognized affective prosody than the LS CI users in the presence of congruent facial information. Furthermore, the ES CI users, but not the LS CI users, gained more than the controls from congruent visual stimuli when recognizing affective prosody. Both CI groups performed overall worse than the controls in recognizing affective prosody. These results suggest that early sign language experience affects multisensory emotion perception in CD CI users.
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Assistive Technology, Recognition (Psychology), Intonation, Visual Perception, Sensory Integration, Control Groups, Task Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Young Adults, Matched Groups, Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Affective Behavior
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Language: English
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