Late sign language exposure does not modulate the relation between spatial language and spatial memory in deaf children and adults

Name: Late sign language exposure does not modulate the relation between spatial language and spatial memory in deaf children and adults
Author: Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., Ünal, Ercenur, Özyürek, A.

İsim	Late sign language exposure does not modulate the relation between spatial language and spatial memory in deaf children and adults
Yazar	Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., Ünal, Ercenur, Özyürek, A.
Basım Tarihi:	2023-04
Basım Yeri	- Springer
Konu	Language and cognition, Sign language acquisition, Spatial language, Spatial memory
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0090-502X
Kayıt Numarası	a520b396-cf58-4003-bfa4-c1b1444d487a
Lokasyon	Psychology
Tarih	2023-04
Notlar	Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Örnek Metin	Prior work with hearing children acquiring a spoken language as their first language shows that spatial language and cognition are related systems and spatial language use predicts spatial memory. Here, we further investigate the extent of this relationship in signing deaf children and adults and ask if late sign language exposure, as well as the frequency and the type of spatial language use that might be affected by late exposure, modulate subsequent memory for spatial relations. To do so, we compared spatial language and memory of 8-year-old late-signing children (after 2 years of exposure to a sign language at the school for the deaf) and late-signing adults to their native-signing counterparts. We elicited picture descriptions of Left-Right relations in Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili) and measured the subsequent recognition memory accuracy of the described pictures. Results showed that late-signing adults and children were similar to their native-signing counterparts in how often they encoded the spatial relation. However, late-signing adults but not children differed from their native-signing counterparts in the type of spatial language they used. However, neither late sign language exposure nor the frequency and type of spatial language use modulated spatial memory accuracy. Therefore, even though late language exposure seems to influence the type of spatial language use, this does not predict subsequent memory for spatial relations. We discuss the implications of these findings based on the theories concerning the correspondence between spatial language and cognition as related or rather independent systems.
DOI	10.3758/s13421-022-01281-7
Cilt	51

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Late sign language exposure does not modulate the relation between spatial language and spatial memory in deaf children and adults

Yazar Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., Ünal, Ercenur, Özyürek, A.

Basım Tarihi 2023-04

Basım Yeri - Springer

Konu Language and cognition, Sign language acquisition, Spatial language, Spatial memory

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0090-502X

Kayıt Numarası a520b396-cf58-4003-bfa4-c1b1444d487a

Lokasyon Psychology

Tarih 2023-04

Notlar Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Örnek Metin Prior work with hearing children acquiring a spoken language as their first language shows that spatial language and cognition are related systems and spatial language use predicts spatial memory. Here, we further investigate the extent of this relationship in signing deaf children and adults and ask if late sign language exposure, as well as the frequency and the type of spatial language use that might be affected by late exposure, modulate subsequent memory for spatial relations. To do so, we compared spatial language and memory of 8-year-old late-signing children (after 2 years of exposure to a sign language at the school for the deaf) and late-signing adults to their native-signing counterparts. We elicited picture descriptions of Left-Right relations in Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili) and measured the subsequent recognition memory accuracy of the described pictures. Results showed that late-signing adults and children were similar to their native-signing counterparts in how often they encoded the spatial relation. However, late-signing adults but not children differed from their native-signing counterparts in the type of spatial language they used. However, neither late sign language exposure nor the frequency and type of spatial language use modulated spatial memory accuracy. Therefore, even though late language exposure seems to influence the type of spatial language use, this does not predict subsequent memory for spatial relations. We discuss the implications of these findings based on the theories concerning the correspondence between spatial language and cognition as related or rather independent systems.

DOI 10.3758/s13421-022-01281-7

Cilt 51