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The effects of manual interference and reading level on deaf subjects' recall of word lists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Theodore Siedlecki Jr ,
Marianne C. Votaw ,
John D. Bonvillian  and
I. King Jordan
Theodore Siedlecki Jr
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Marianne C. Votaw
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
John D. Bonvillian*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
I. King Jordan
Affiliation:
Gallaudet University
*
John D. Bonvillian, Department of Psychology, Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2477
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Abstract

This study examined the effect of a manual interference task on deaf and hearing college students' written free recall under both immediate- and delayed-recall conditions. The stimuli consisted of printed English words that varied on signability (i.e., words that could be expressed by a single sign) and visual imagery. The manual interference task had a small adverse effect on the deaf students' recall, but this effect did not appear to be related to the use of a kinesthetic sign-based coding strategy. It was also found than the deaf subjects' reading levels were very strongly related to their level of word recall; the better deaf readers recalled more than 50% more words than the poorer readers. Ratings of the deaf subjects' speech intelligibility, however, were not related to their level of word recall.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 185 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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