Involvement of classical anterior and posterior language areas in sign language production, as investigated by 4 T functional magnetic resonance imaging

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 364, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 168-172

  Kassubek, Jan ^a   Hickok, Gregory ^b   Erhard, Peter ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Cortex; Deaf; Functional neuroimaging; Language production; Sign language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INSULA; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH;

EID: 2942622499     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.04.088     Document Type: Article

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