Verbal coding strategies used by hearing-impaired individuals.
A paired-associate verbal learning task was used to determine the type of perceptual coding strategies hearing-impaired persons use in auditory perceptual processing of language. Four lists of word pairs were devised, whereby the word pairs in each list were characterized as sharing either similar sign-similar meaning, dissimilar sign-similar meaning, similar sign-dissimilar meaning, or dissimilar sign-dissimilar meaning. Severely hearing-impaired subjects were required to replace the missing word associated with the word pairs. The results showed that, while the subjects were able to code the verbal material on both a sign basis and a semantic basis, the semantic coding strategy appeared to be more efficient than the sign coding strategy. The findings are related to earlier investigations and are explained according to a theoretical model of perception.
D000293:Adolescent; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003638:Deafness; D006801:Humans; D008369:Manual Communication; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D012660:Semantics; D013060:Speech; D014706:Verbal Learning