Neural systems underlying spatial language in American Sign Language

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 812-824

  Emmorey, Karen ^a   Damasio, Hanna ^a,b   McCullough, Stephen ^a   Grabowski, Thomas ^b   Ponto, Laura L B ^b   Hichwa, Richard D ^b   Bellugi, Ursula ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; HAND; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OBJECT RELATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPACE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0036427041     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(02)91187-0     Document Type: Article

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