Neural correlates of British Sign Language comprehension: Spatial processing demands of topographic language

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1064-1075

  MacSweeney, Mairéad ^a   Woll, Bencie ^a   Campbell, Ruth ^a   Calvert, Gemma A ^a   McGuire, Philip K ^a   David, Anthony S ^a   Simmons, Andrew ^a   Brammer, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036792172     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892902320474517     Document Type: Article

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