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Sensory Perception in Blind Bilinguals and Monolinguals

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In blinds, the tactile sensations play a crucial role for various daily activities, in the all sense modalities tactile sensation is considered as major sense of perception. This study is conducted to investigate the tactile sensations in relation to Bilingual and Monolingual blinds using experimental comparative study design, divided into two groups. Self-paced reading task of a Braille scripted passage was used as a stimulus. Findings of this study reported that blind bilingual participants differ in the processing of language, the tactile sensations in the Bilinguals are better as compared to monolinguals.

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Authors would like to thank all the blind participants for participants in this study and Braille lab in charge office staff, University of Hyderabad.

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  1. Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India

    P. Phani Krishna & Ramesh Kumar Mishra

  2. Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translational Studies, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India

    S. Arulmozi

  3. Optometry and Vision Science, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India

    Male Shiva Ram

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Phani Krishna, P., Arulmozi, S., Shiva Ram, M. et al. Sensory Perception in Blind Bilinguals and Monolinguals. J Psycholinguist Res 49, 631–639 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-020-09689-5

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