The rapid serial visual presentation paradigm was used to investigate differences in the
attentional blink between deaf children and hearing children in response to facial
expressions of fear and disgust. The results showed that: (1) deaf and hearing children
had a higher accuracy rate for T1 with disgustful facial expression than T1 with fear
facial expression, (2) There was no significant difference in attentional blink between
deaf and hearing children, (3) When T2 appeared at Lag6, the response accuracy of T2 in
the disgust T1 condition was lower than that in fear T1 condition. However, no significant
difference in T2 at Lag2 was found between the two conditions. The results showed that
deaf children and those with hearing were more sensitive to facial expressions of disgust,
which captured more attentional resources, and the ability of visual attention of deaf
children was not weaker than hearing children.