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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2006 Oct 2;10(11):512–518. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.09.006

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The proposal that Deaf individuals have greater attentional resources in the visual periphery predicts that peripheral distractors should be more distracting to Deaf than to hearing individuals. (a) The spatial distribution of attention as a function of eccentricity was measured by comparing the extent to which peripheral and central distractors interfere with target performance in Deaf and hearing individuals. (b) Hearing individuals exhibit greater distractability from central than from peripheral distractors, in line with the view of heightened central attention in the hearing population. By contrast, Deaf individuals exhibit greater distractability from peripheral distractors, supporting the view that Deaf individuals have enhanced peripheral attention.