Space is special in Sign

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-7

  Campbell, Ruth ^a   Woll, Bencie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS;

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL); BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE (BSL);

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT RELATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPACE; STIMULUS; WORK;

EID: 0037220688     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(02)00012-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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