Do deaf individuals have better visual skills in the periphery? Evidence from processing facial attributes

Shalev, Tal; Schwartz, Sivan; Miller, Paul; Hadad, Bat‐Sheva

doi:10.1080/13506285.2020.1770390

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“…These results demonstrate that, although peripheral free attentional capacity may be limited, peripheral, task-irrelevant angry faces may be so salient to deaf individuals' awareness that it is difficult to inhibit attention to them. In a similar vein, Shalev et al ( 2020 ) found that the perception of peripheral fearful faces that were also salient stimuli signaling threat was more tolerant to increasing eccentricities in deaf individuals compared to hearing individuals. This result is thought to reflect a compensatory mechanism following auditory deprivation, as the visual system of deaf individuals develops a higher sensitivity to visually substitutive stimuli representing dangerous signals (Shalev et al, 2020 ).…”

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“…This result suggests that when central load increases, hearing individuals' attentional capacity exhausts, whereas deaf participants appear to retain free capacity to detect faces in the periphery, which is consistent with previous findings indicating that deaf individuals possess greater attentional resources in the periphery than hearing individuals. In contrast, Shalev et al ( 2020 ) presented peripheral faces as targets and required participants to identify a variety of facial characteristics. Interestingly, they did not find that deaf participants had superior perceptual representations for face identification, gender, or eye gaze direction; however, they did observe that deaf participants outperformed hearing participants in recognizing facial expressions, particularly fearful expressions.…”

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“…Based on previous studies (Proksch and Bavelier, 2002 ; Hauthal et al, 2012 ; Shalev et al, 2020 ), this study investigated whether the advantage for deaf individuals' attention to peripheral facial expressions was maintained when faces were presented as non-targets. Expressions are particularly salient facial features, carrying important psychological and biological information (Itier and Neath-Tavares, 2017 ).…”

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“…In summary, this study utilized the modified perceptual load paradigm and ERPs to investigate the attention of deaf individuals to peripheral facial expressions that appeared as non-targets. Prior research has shown that the enhanced attention to the peripheral visual field observed in deaf individuals may increase sensitivity to dangerous peripheral stimuli (Bavelier et al, 2006 ; Shalev et al, 2020 ). Therefore, deaf individuals may have an advantage over hearing individuals in detecting threatening faces in the periphery.…”

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Reduced attentional inhibition for peripheral distractors of angry faces under central perceptual load in deaf individuals: evidence from an event-related potentials study

Huang,

Yang,

et al. 2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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BackgroundStudies have shown that deaf individuals distribute more attention to the peripheral visual field and exhibit enhanced visual processing for peripheral stimuli relative to hearing individuals. This leads to better detection of peripheral target motion and simple static stimuli in hearing individuals. However, when threatening faces that represent dangerous signals appear as non-targets in the periphery, it remains unclear whether deaf individuals would retain an advantage over hearing individuals in detecting them.MethodsIn this study, 23 deaf and 28 hearing college students were included. A modified perceptual load paradigm and event-related potentials (ERPs) were adopted. In the task, participants were instructed to search for a target letter in a central letter array, while task-irrelevant face distractors (happy, neutral, and angry faces) were simultaneously presented in the periphery while the central perceptual load was manipulated.ResultsBehavioral data showed that angry faces slowed deaf participants' responses to the target while facilitating the responses of hearing participants. At the electrophysiological level, we found modulation of P1 amplitude by central load only in hearing individuals. Interestingly, larger interference from angry face distractors was associated with higher P1 differential amplitude only in deaf individuals. Additionally, the amplitude of N170 for happy face distractors was smaller than that for angry and neutral face distractors in deaf participants.ConclusionThe present data demonstrates that, despite being under central perceptual load, deaf individuals exhibit less attentional inhibition to peripheral, goal-irrelevant angry faces than hearing individuals. The result may reflect a compensatory mechanism in which, in the absence of auditory alertness to danger, the detection of visually threatening information outside of the current attentional focus has a high priority.

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Reduced attentional inhibition for peripheral distractors of angry faces under central perceptual load in deaf individuals: evidence from an event-related potentials study

Huang,

Yang,

et al. 2023

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“…Recent work by Shalev et al [44] investigated perceptual resolution of peripheral face processing in deaf individuals and found no peripheral enhancements for face identification, gender categorization, or eye gaze direction tasks. However, they found that perception of specific expression (e.g., fear) was somewhat preserved with increasing eccentricity.…”

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Enhanced Peripheral Face Processing in Deaf Individuals

Lee

Groesbeck

Gwinn

et al. 2022

jpi

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Studies of compensatory changes in visual functions in response to auditory loss have shown that enhancements tend to be restricted to the processing of specific visual features, such as motion in the periphery. Previous studies have also shown that deaf individuals can show greater face processing abilities in the central visual field. Enhancements in the processing of peripheral stimuli are thought to arise from a lack of auditory input and subsequent increase in the allocation of attentional resources to peripheral locations, while enhancements in face processing abilities are thought to be driven by experience with American sign language and not necessarily hearing loss. This combined with the fact that face processing abilities typically decline with eccentricity suggests that face processing enhancements may not extend to the periphery for deaf individuals. Using a face matching task, the authors examined whether deaf individuals’ enhanced ability to discriminate between faces extends to the peripheral visual field. Deaf participants were more accurate than hearing participants in discriminating faces presented both centrally and in the periphery. Their results support earlier findings that deaf individuals possess enhanced face discrimination abilities in the central visual field and further extend them by showing that these enhancements also occur in the periphery for more complex stimuli.

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Uma revisão de escopo dos estudos sobre as expressões faciais de emoção e a língua de sinais

Guilherme,

Tokumaru

2023

Sofia

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As expressões faciais de emoção são universais e compreendidas por todos os seres humanos. Entretanto, para os usuários de língua de sinais, as expressões faciais também são usadas como marcadores linguísticos. Objetivou-se realizar uma revisão de escopo da produção científica sobre a relação entre o uso de língua de sinais e a percepção e reconhecimento de expressões faciais de emoção. Os dados foram coletados na APA PsycNEt, Scientific Eletronic Library Online –Scielo e Scopus. Foram identificadas 376 publicações e selecionados 15 artigos segundo os critérios de inclusão e exclusão e da PRISMA-ScR. A maioria das publicações foram realizadas com participantes surdos sinalizadores em comparação com ouvintes não sinalizadores; os principais estímulos utilizados nos estudos foram imagens estáticas (fotografias de expressões faciais de emoção); a maioria dos estudos não encontrou diferenças significativas entre os participantes surdos com conhecimento em língua de sinais e ouvintes sem conhecimento em língua desinais.

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Do deaf individuals have better visual skills in the periphery? Evidence from processing facial attributes

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References 47 publications

Reduced attentional inhibition for peripheral distractors of angry faces under central perceptual load in deaf individuals: evidence from an event-related potentials study

Reduced attentional inhibition for peripheral distractors of angry faces under central perceptual load in deaf individuals: evidence from an event-related potentials study

Enhanced Peripheral Face Processing in Deaf Individuals

Uma revisão de escopo dos estudos sobre as expressões faciais de emoção e a língua de sinais

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