Cortical representation of sign language: Comparison of deaf signers and hearing non-signers

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 506-512

  Levänen, Sari ^a,c   Uutela, Kimmo ^a   Salenius, Stephan ^a   Hari, Riitta ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 0342467858     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/11.6.506     Document Type: Article

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