LuCiD Seminar - Visual Habituation in deaf infants and associations with language
| Dates: | 14 November 2023 |
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| Times: | 11:00 - 12:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Health Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Dr. Claire Monroy |
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Children with hearing loss demonstrate atypical performance across many general cognitive skills, such as working memory and statistical learning. However, the evidence for these deficits has been challenged, with mixed findings emerging in recent years, and is largely limited to studies involving school-age children. In our work we are investigating cognitive skills in young babies, and associations with language outcomes, to investigate the effects of hearing loss on cognition early in development. In this talk, I will present findings from a study on visual habituation in deaf babies and associations between visual habituation and language scores on a standardized assessment. Our findings suggest that differences in essential cognitive abilities between deaf and hearing children emerge in infancy. They also suggest that cognitive differences between deaf and hearing infants can explain some of the variability in language outcomes in children with hearing loss. Finally, I will present plans for future experiments that will hopefully shed light on the potential mechanisms that drive the effects of hearing loss on general cognitive development.
Speaker
Dr. Claire Monroy
Organisation: Keele University
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Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
