Altered Hierarchical Visual Rhythm Tracking in Early Deafness.
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
- Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- School of Educational Science, Cognition and Human Behavior Key Laboratory of Hunan Province, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Abstract
Rhythm perception enables humans to navigate dynamic environments. The auditory system is particularly adept at processing rhythmic temporal structure, and auditory training exerts a greater influence than visual training on visual rhythm perception, leading to the hypothesis that auditory coding may support visual rhythm representation. This raises a fundamental question: whether and to what extent the deprivation of auditory coding capabilities influences visual rhythm processing. To investigate this issue, we assessed cortical tracking of hierarchical visual rhythms in hearing and early deaf participants using electroencephalography (EEG). Participants viewed 2 types of rhythmic sequences: geometric shapes and point-light walkers. Each stimulus type consists of a lower-order basic rhythm defined by stimulus recurrence and a higher-order chunk rhythm built on perceptual or cognitive organization. Results showed that hearing participants exhibited robust cortical tracking of both basic and chunk rhythms across stimuli. In contrast, deaf participants exhibited preserved tracking of basic rhythms but reduced tracking of chunk rhythms. Moreover, compared with the hearing group, the deaf group showed reduced visual–auditory and visual–frontal functional connectivity, and individual differences in connectivity strength were positively correlated with chunk-rhythm tracking. These findings support a hierarchical auditory scaffolding framework, in which auditory experience is selectively associated with higher-order visual rhythm perception through temporal chunking mechanisms.
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- Funding: added National Natural Science Foundation of China: 32430043, 2021ZD0203800, STI2030, 2023B0303010004, 32571241; Chinese Academy of Sciences: 2021ZD0204200; Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China: 2021ZD0203800, 2021ZD0204200; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: 2024M753476, 2024M170993; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: 2023B0303010004; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; Youth Innovation Promotion Association; Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Shen, L., Yu, T., Lan, Y., Hu, R., Chen, J., Wang, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2026). Altered Hierarchical Visual Rhythm Tracking in Early Deafness. Research (Washington, D.C.), 9, 1427. https://
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@article{shen2026altered
author = {Shen, Li and Yu, Tingwei and Lan, Yadi and Hu, Ruichen and Chen, Jie and Wang, Ying and Jiang, Yi},
title = {{Altered Hierarchical Visual Rhythm Tracking in Early Deafness}},
journal = {Research (Washington, D.C.)},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
volume = {9},
pages = {1427},
publisher = {AAAS Science Partner Journal Program},
issn = {2639-5274},
doi = {10.34133/
url = {https://
pmid = {42750824},
pmcid = {PMC13578771}
}
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PY - 2026
DA - 2026/
VL - 9
SP - 1427
SN - 2639-5274
PB - AAAS Science Partner Journal Program
DO - 10.34133/
UR - https://
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