Neural systems underlying lexical retrieval for sign language

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-95

  Emmorey, Karen ^a   Grabowski, Thomas ^b   McCullough, Stephen ^a   Damasio, Hanna ^a,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

American Sign Language (ASL); Deaf signers; Fingerspelling; Naming; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; NAMES; NEURONS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0037210210     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00089-1     Document Type: Article

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