On the Nature of Short-Term Memory Encoding by the Deaf

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Abstract
A study was made of the kind of imagery used by severely deaf children in short-term memory of visually presented consonant sequences. It was rationalized that systematic recall errors could be taken as indicative of the types of sensory coding used by these subjects. The subjects, along with the hearing controls, were exposed to 5-consonant sequences and then asked to write down what they could recall. Hearing subjects made systematic recall errors acoustically similar to the correct letters. The deaf subjects made systematic errors which were not acoustically similar to the correct letters and which could not be recorded as spatially related to them.

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