title: Chinese deaf and hard of hearing adolescents' awareness of thematic and taxonomic relations among ordinary concepts represented by pictures and written words.
abstract: Inspired by a previous study of Korean deaf and hard of hearing adolescents, the researchers conducted a priming task of living-nonliving categorization with a sample of Chinese deaf and hard of hearing adolescents. The sample in this study had significantly lower accuracy levels for the thematically related items than for the taxonomically related items and significantly larger differences in reaction times than a group of hearing adolescents when stimuli were changed from pictures to written words. However, they were not significantly different from the hearing adolescents in their performance with the taxonomically related written words. Furthermore, unlike the hearing adolescents, they did not have significantly different reaction times as the result of changes in positions of stimulus presentations.
authors.affiliation: School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Degao
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Kejuan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xueyun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment; D003638:Deafness / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading