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  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Adverse listening conditions are known to affect spoken language perception.
  • The effect of suboptimal viewing conditions on signed language processing remains less understood.
  • Viewing angle, the perceiver's orientation to the signer, naturally varies in deaf communities and may affect comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of viewing angle on the comprehension of British Sign Language (BSL).
  • To examine if late second language (L2) learners of BSL are more affected by viewing angles than native (L1) signers.
  • To explore the relationship between mental rotation ability and processing signed language from different viewing angles.

Main Methods:

  • A semantic decision task within a distance priming paradigm was employed.
  • Participants comprehended BSL signs presented from various viewing angles.
  • Individual differences in mental rotation ability were assessed.

Main Results:

  • Signers were slower and less accurate when comprehending signs from side viewing angles compared to frontal views.
  • L2 learners of BSL made disproportionately more errors with side viewing angles.
  • Performance on the BSL task correlated with mental rotation ability.

Conclusions:

  • Signed language processing is viewpoint-dependent, similar to other visual recognition tasks.
  • Signers may mentally rotate signs from non-frontal views, with mental rotation ability influencing processing efficiency.
  • L2 signed language learners benefit from exposure to diverse visual input, including varied viewing angles, to enhance comprehension.