Bélanger Nathalie N, Mayberry Rachel I, Rayner Keith
a Department of Psychology , University of California , San Diego, La Jolla , CA , USA.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2013;66(11):2237-52. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.780085. Epub 2013 Jun 14.
Many deaf individuals do not develop the high-level reading skills that will allow them to fully take part into society. To attempt to explain this widespread difficulty in the deaf population, much research has honed in on the use of phonological codes during reading. The hypothesis that the use of phonological codes is associated with good reading skills in deaf readers, though not well supported, still lingers in the literature. We investigated skilled and less-skilled adult deaf readers' processing of orthographic and phonological codes in parafoveal vision during reading by monitoring their eye movements and using the boundary paradigm. Orthographic preview benefits were found in early measures of reading for skilled hearing, skilled deaf, and less-skilled deaf readers, but only skilled hearing readers processed phonological codes in parafoveal vision. Crucially, skilled and less-skilled deaf readers showed a very similar pattern of preview benefits during reading. These results support the notion that reading difficulties in deaf adults are not linked to their failure to activate phonological codes during reading.
许多聋人无法培养出高水平的阅读技能，以使他们能够充分融入社会。为了解释聋人群体中这种普遍存在的阅读困难，许多研究都聚焦于阅读过程中语音编码的使用。尽管聋人读者使用语音编码与良好的阅读技能相关这一假设缺乏有力支持，但仍在文献中存在。我们通过监测熟练和不太熟练的成年聋人读者的眼动，并使用边界范式，研究了他们在阅读过程中副中央凹视觉中对正字法和语音编码的处理。在熟练听力读者、熟练聋人读者和不太熟练聋人读者的早期阅读测量中发现了正字法预视效益，但只有熟练听力读者在副中央凹视觉中处理语音编码。至关重要的是，熟练和不太熟练的聋人读者在阅读过程中表现出非常相似的预视效益模式。这些结果支持了这样一种观点，即成年聋人的阅读困难与其在阅读过程中未能使用语音编码无关。
