Impact of early deafness and early exposure to sign language on the cerebral organization for motion processing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 8931-8942

  Bavelier, Daphne ^a   Brozinsky, Craig ^a   Tomann, Andrea ^a   Mitchell, Teresa ^b   Neville, Helen ^b   Liu, Guoying ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American sign language; Deafness; fMRI; Motion; Plasticity; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 0035889972     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-22-08931.2001     Document Type: Article

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