Recognition of Environmental Sounds by People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Utilization of Contextual Information
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- TABARU Kei
- Office for Students with Disabilities, University of Tsukuba
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- HARASHIMA Tsuneo
- Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba
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- KOBAYASHI Yuko
- Clinical Psychology, Health Care and Special Support Education, Joetsu University of Education
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- KATADA Akiyoshi
- Faculty of Human Well-Being, Chubu Gakuin University
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 聴覚障害者の環境音認知における背景情報の活用に関する研究
- チョウカク ショウガイシャ ノ カンキョウオン ニンチ ニ オケル ハイケイ ジョウホウ ノ カツヨウ ニ カンスル ケンキュウ
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Description
The present study aimed to examine the utilization of contextual cues for recognition of environmental sounds by adults who were hard of hearing or had some degree of deafness, with a focus on the relation between the ability to identify environmental sounds from auditory cues and the ability to guess environmental sounds from visual contextual cues. Participants (20 adults who were hard of hearing or somewhat deaf) completed 2 tasks: (a) an auditory task that required them to identify environmental sounds from auditory stimuli, and (b) a visual task that required them to guess environmental sounds from images of daily situations (e.g., kitchen, living room, road intersection). A strong correlation was expected between performance on the auditory and visual tasks. However, no correlation was obtained between participants' performance on the 2 tasks. That is, participants were able to guess environmental sounds from visual contextual cues, in spite of failing to identify the same sounds from auditory stimuli. Since the participants, all of whom had some level of difficulty hearing, had the ability to guess environmental sounds from visual contextual cues, this suggests that some of them may not have utilized contextual cues because they were not able to associate sounds with the corresponding auditory imagery. Further research is needed that examines processes underlying the association between environmental sounds and auditory imagery in people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Journal
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- The Japanese Journal of Special Education
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The Japanese Journal of Special Education 53 (3), 185-194, 2015
The Japanese Association of Special Education
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390845713052105088
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- NII Article ID
- 130007592130
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- NII Book ID
- AN00172513
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- ISSN
- 21865132
- 03873374
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- NDL BIB ID
- 027139918
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- JaLC
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- Disallowed