Patient Information about Epilepsy & Seizures. Epilepsy, or seizure disorder, is a chronic neurological condition caused by abnormal brain cell activity. Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizuresâhaving one seizure does not necessarily mean that a person has epilepsy.
(1971) â¢ Discriminability was measured by an increase in sucking rate toa second speech sound after habituation to the first sound. â¢ Recovery from habituation was greater when the two stimuli were from different adult phonemiccategories than when they were from the same category. Eimas et al.1971) reported that infants, like adults, demonstrate categorical ppp p perception for speech sounds. To explain this they proposed that infants are equipped with innate, speech-specific, phoneticfeature detectors tuned to the range of phonetic contrasts used in the worldâs languages.
The conclusion that tactile perception is faster for a person who is congenitally deaf-blind than it is for persons with typical sight and hearing is important for understanding the tactile potential of individuals who are congenitally deaf-blind.