The bimodal bilingual brain: Effects of sign language experience

Brain and Language

Volumn 109, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 124-132

  Emmorey, Karen ^a   McCullough, Stephen ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American Sign Language; Bimodal bilingualism; Facial expression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; SIGN LANGUAGE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 65149100591     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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