Can Deaf People Hear Themselves Think?
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Thread Topic: Can Deaf People Hear Themselves Think?
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well most folks think things out in sound, so where does that leave a deaf person?
Do they still have the sense, and can therefore imagine sound? or do they skip that sense within imagination, and think in signs? -
But you don't need ears to hear your own thoughts, right? It's all mental. So they can still 'hear' their thoughts. They just probably don't attribute it to sound.
I'm confusing myself. -_- We should just ask a deaf person. -
googled it.
Apperently in a book called Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf that was written by Oliver Sacks in 1989, it's explained that deafness can have a serious and negative impact on cognitive ability because (according to him) it is impossible to think on the higher levels that humans do without being able to think in language.
So profoundly deaf babies who never hear, are given to stunted mental development because they require a special proccess of learning to think in language that does not require sound.
Deaf people can't hear themselves think. -
actually correction: deaf people can't hear themselves think unless they are not profoundly deaf, or if they went deaf after they learned their first spoken language.
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Ah, that makes sense. Cool.
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