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Serial recall of static and dynamic stimuli by deaf and hearing children
Author(s) -
McGurk Harry,
Saqi Sarah
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.1986.tb01022.x
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , audiology , argument (complex analysis) , hearing loss , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry
Previous experiments have failed to obtain recency effects for graphically presented serial lists, whereas such effects are readily obtained when lists are presented in auditory or lipread format. These findings may be observed with both deaf and hearing subjects and it has been suggested that both groups of subjects encode lipread information phonologically. It is argued that graphic displays have failed to yield recency effects because of their static nature. An experiment is reported in which deaf and hearing children were exposed to lists of digits presented in static graphic, lipread and dynamic graphic formats. Marked recency effects were only obtained with the latter two conditions. No differences were observed between deaf and hearing subjects in this respect. The argument that deaf and hearing children encode lipread information in a non‐modality specific phonological code is examined. It is concluded that the argument is not supported by evidence currently available.