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Evidence of an Effect of Gaming Experience on Visuospatial Attention in Deaf but Not in Hearing Individuals

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Auditory cortex in congenitally deaf early sign language users reorganizes to support cognitive processing in the visual domain. However, evidence suggests that the potential benefits of this reorganization are largely unrealized. At the same time, there
Emil Holmer   +3 more
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Understanding intellectual disability through RASopathies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Intellectual disability, commonly known as mental retardation in the International Classification of Disease from World Health Organization, is the term that describes an intellectual and adaptive cognitive disability that begins in early life during the
Pagani, Mario Rafael   +1 more
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The Effects of Working Memory Load on Auditory Distraction in Adults With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021
Cognitive control provides us with the ability to inter alia, regulate the locus of attention and ignore environmental distractions in accordance with our goals.
Rina Blomberg   +11 more
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Living in Sandwell: An Exploratory Study into the Key Issues and Challenges that Affect a Small Group of People with Mild Learning Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper is concerned with a small group of people with a mild learning disability; who they are and what their lives are like. This group is not typically known by the label of mild learning disability in research, social policy or in service ...
Tilly, Liz
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Speech Processing Difficulties in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
The large body of research that forms the ease of language understanding (ELU) model emphasizes the important contribution of cognitive processes when listening to speech in adverse conditions; however, speech-in-noise (SIN) processing is yet to be ...
Rina Blomberg   +4 more
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Associations Between Sign Language Skills and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Deaf Early Signers

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The processing of a language involves a neural language network including temporal, parietal, and frontal cortical regions. This applies to spoken as well as signed languages. Previous research suggests that spoken language proficiency is associated with
Emil Holmer   +3 more
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Futures planning, parental expectations and sibling concern for people who have a learning disability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The aim of this questionnaire was to explore the existence of future plans, parental expectation and sibling concern regarding people who have a learning disability.
Davys, D, Haigh, CA, Mitchell, D
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Imitation, sign language skill and the Developmental Ease of Language Understanding (D-ELU) model

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Imitation and language processing are closely connected. According to the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model (Rönnberg et al., 2013) pre-existing mental representation of lexical items facilitates language understanding. Thus, imitation of manual
Emil eHolmer   +2 more
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The Influence of Form- and Meaning-Based Predictions on Cortical Speech Processing Under Challenging Listening Conditions: A MEG Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
Under adverse listening conditions, prior linguistic knowledge about the form (i.e., phonology) and meaning (i.e., semantics) help us to predict what an interlocutor is about to say.
Carine Signoret   +7 more
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Editorial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Disability, technology and e‐learning: challenging ...
Seale, Jane
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