Linguistic and pragmatic skills in toddlers with cochlear implant

P Rinaldi, F Baruffaldi, S Burdo… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background An increasing number of deaf children received cochlear implants (CI) in the first
years of life, but no study has focused on linguistic and pragmatic skills in children with CI …

Functional selectivity for face processing in the temporal voice area of early deaf individuals

…, J Zonca, V Foa, F Baruffaldi… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Brain systems supporting face and voice processing both contribute to the extraction of
important information for social interaction (eg, person identity). How does the brain reorganize …

Attentional orienting to social and nonsocial cues in early deaf adults.

B Heimler, W van Zoest, F Baruffaldi… - Journal of …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
In 2 experiments we investigated attentional orienting to nonpredictive social and nonsocial
cues in deaf observers. In Experiment 1a, 22 early deaf adults and 23 hearing controls …

Finding the balance between capture and control: Oculomotor selection in early deaf adults

B Heimler, W van Zoest, F Baruffaldi, M Donk… - Brain and Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Previous work investigating the consequence of bilateral deafness on attentional selection
suggests that experience-dependent changes in this population may result in increased …

Spatial and non-spatial multisensory cueing in unilateral cochlear implant users

F Pavani, M Venturini, F Baruffaldi, L Artesini, F Bonfioli… - Hearing research, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present study we examined the integrity of spatial and non-spatial multisensory cueing
(MSC) mechanisms in unilateral CI users. We tested 17 unilateral CI users and 17 age-…

Theory of mind in deaf adults

F Lecciso, A Levante, F Baruffaldi… - Cogent Psychology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: The present study analyzed the social-cognitive and social-perceptual components
of Theory of Mind (ToM) comparing three groups of deaf adults to three matched hearing …

Environmental learning of social cues: Evidence from enhanced gaze cueing in deaf children

F Pavani, M Venturini, F Baruffaldi… - Child …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The susceptibility to gaze cueing in deaf children aged 7–14 years old (N = 16) was tested
using a nonlinguistic task. Participants performed a peripheral shape‐discrimination task, …

Multisensory interference in early deaf adults

B Heimler, F Baruffaldi, C Bonmassar… - The Journal of Deaf …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Multisensory interactions in deaf cognition are largely unexplored. Unisensory studies
suggest that behavioral/neural changes may be more prominent for visual compared to tactile …

Increased overt attention to objects in early deaf adults: An eye-tracking study of complex naturalistic scenes

S Zeni, I Laudanna, F Baruffaldi, B Heimler, D Melcher… - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of selective attention in people with profound deafness has repeatedly documented
enhanced attention to the peripheral regions of the visual field compared to hearing …

[PDF][PDF] Theory of Mind in deaf adults: the role of verbal ability and interpersonal experiences from early years

S Petrocchi, A Levante, F Baruffaldi… - Life Span & …, 2017 - lifespanjournal.oasi.en.it
Abstract Theory of Mind (ToM) studies on deafness are focused on childhood. Few studies
have analyzed ToM on deaf adults. The present research compared three groups of deaf …