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Publication Date: 2020-Aug
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Sensory Perception in Blind Bilinguals and Monolinguals
Phani Krishna, P.; Arulmozi, S.; Shiva Ram, Male; Mishra, Ramesh Kumar
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, v49 n4 p631-639 Aug 2020
In blinds, the tactile sensations play a crucial role for various daily activities, in the all sense modalities tactile sensation is considered as major sense of perception. This study is conducted to investigate the tactile sensations in relation to Bilingual and Monolingual blinds using experimental comparative study design, divided into two groups. Self-paced reading task of a Braille scripted passage was used as a stimulus. Findings of this study reported that blind bilingual participants differ in the processing of language, the tactile sensations in the Bilinguals are better as compared to monolinguals.
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Blindness, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Tactual Perception, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing, Reading Processes, Task Analysis, Braille, Psycholinguistics
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