Deaf Adolescents'' Representations of Taxonomic Relations
青少年聋生的分类学联系

Because deaf people differs from hearing people in so many ways,such as using a different language and having a relatively isolated way of living,a reasonable hypothesis is that their representation of world knowledge might have some unique characteristics compared to hearing people.In the current study we sought to investigate their representation of taxonomic categories.Our hypothesis was that deaf adolescents had stronger tendency of imagery representation of exemplars and weaker awareness of taxonomic c...