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SUBMITTER: Lieberman AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5909983 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lieberman Amy M AM Borovsky Arielle A Mayberry Rachel I RI
Language, cognition and neuroscience 20171208 4
Prediction during sign language comprehension may enable signers to integrate linguistic and non-linguistic information within the visual modality. In two eyetracking experiments, we investigated American Sign language (ASL) semantic prediction in deaf adults and children (aged 4-8 years). Participants viewed ASL sentences in a visual world paradigm in which the sentence-initial verb was either neutral or constrained relative to the sentence-final target noun. Adults and children made anticipato ...[more]