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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 6:2 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Empirical Articles

Cognitive Correlates of Visual Speech Understanding in Hearing-Impaired Individuals

Ulf Andersson, Björn Lyxell, Jerker Rönnberg, and Karl-Erik Spens

Linköping University
Örebro University
Royal Institute of Technology

This study examined the extent to which different measures of speechreading performance correlated with particular cognitive abilities in a population of hearing-impaired people. Although the three speechreading tasks (isolated word identification, sentence comprehension, and text tracking) were highly intercorrelated, they tapped different cognitive skills. In this population, younger participants were better speechreaders, and, when age was taken into account, speech tracking correlated primarily with (written) lexical decision speed. In contrast, speechreading for sentence comprehension correlated most strongly with performance on a phonological processing task (written pseudohomophone detection) but also on a span measure that may have utilized visual, nonverbal memory for letters. We discuss the implications of this pattern.

This work is supported by grants from the Swedish Council for Social Research awarded to Björn Lyxell (97-0319) and grants awarded to Jerker Rönnberg (30305108). We thank Ulla-Britt Persson for checking the language.

Correspondence should be sent to UIf Andersson, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Linköping University, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden (e-mail: ulfan{at}ipp.liu.se).

Received October 6, 1999; revised April 13, 2000; accepted October 5, 2000


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