Brain systems mediating semantic and syntactic processing in deaf native signers: Biological invariance and modality specificity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8784-8789

  Capek, Cheryl M ^a   Grossi, Giordana ^b   Newman, Aaron J ^c   McBurney, Susan L ^d   Corina, David ^e   Roeder, Brigitte ^f   Neville, Helen J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Sign language; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; BRAIN; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGN LANGUAGE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 66649126024     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809609106     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Bavelier D, et al. (1997) Sentence reading: A functional MRI study at 4 Tesla. J Cogn Neurosci 9:664-686. (Pubitemid 27455557)
2. Embick D, Marantz A, Miyashita Y, O'Neil W, Sakai KL (2000) A syntactic specialization for Broca's area. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:6150-6154. (Pubitemid 30367538)
3. Davis MH, Johnsrude IS (2003) Hierarchial processing in spoken language comprehension. J Neurosci 23(8):3423-3431. (Pubitemid 36531984)
4. Mazoyer B, et al. (1993) The cortical representation of speech. J Cogn Neurosci 5(4):467-479. (Pubitemid 23322729)
5. Roeder B, Stock O, Neville H, Bien S, Roesler F (2002) Brain activation modulated by the comprehension of normal and pseudo-word sentences of different processing demands: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroimage 15(4):1003-1014.
6. Capek CM, et al. (2004) The cortical organization of audio-visual sentence comprehension: An fMRI study at 4 Tesla. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 20(2):111-119. (Pubitemid 38748696)
7. MacSweeney M, et al. (2002) Neural systems underlying British Sign Language and audio-visual English processing in native users. Brain 125(7):1583-1593. (Pubitemid 34755172)
8. Dronkers NF, Wilkins DP, Van Valin RD, Jr, Redfern BB, Jaeger JJ (2004) Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension. Cognition 92(1-2):145-177. (Pubitemid 38270265)
9. Van Petten C, Luka BJ (2006) Neural localization of semantic context effects in electromagnetic and hemodynamic studies. Brain Lang 97(3):279-293.
10. Neville HJ, et al. (1998) Cerebral organization for language in deaf and hearing subjects: Biological constraints and effects of experience. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95(3):922-929. (Pubitemid 28124887)
11. Newman AJ, Bavelier D, Corina D, Jezzard P, Neville HJ (2002) A critical period for right hemisphere recruitment in American Sign Language processing. Nat Neurosci 5(1):76-80. (Pubitemid 34038787)
12. Söderfeldt B, et al. (1997) Signed and spoken language perception studied by positron emission tomography. Neurology 49(1):82-87. (Pubitemid 27328686)
13. MacSweeney M, Capek CM, Campbell R, Woll B (2008) The signing brain: The neurobiology of sign language. Trends Cogn Sci 12(11):432-440.
14. Corina DP (1998) Aphasia in users of signed languages. Aphasia in Atypical Populations, eds Coppens P, Lebrun Y, Basso A (Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ), pp 261-309.
15. Hickok G, Bellugi U, Klima ES (1996) The neurobiology of sign language and its implications for the neural basis of language. Nature 381(6584):699-702. (Pubitemid 26196569)
16. Poizner H, Klima ES, Bellugi U (1987) What the Hands Reveal About the Brain (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).
17. Capek CM, et al. (2008) Hand and mouth: Cortical correlates of lexical processing in British Sign Language and speechreading English. J Cogn Neurosci 20(7):1220-1234.
18. Petitto LA, et al. (2000) Speech-like cerebral activity in profoundly deaf people while processing signed languages: Implications for the neural basis of all human language. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97(25):13961-13966.
19. Padden CA (1988) Interaction of Morphology and Syntax in American Sign Language (Garland, New York).
20. Hellige JB (1993) Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left (Harvard Univ Press, Cambridge, MA).
21. Kutas M, Hillyard SA (1980) Reading senseless sentences: Brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity. Science 207(4427):203-205. (Pubitemid 10141432)
22. Neville HJ, Mills DL, Lawson DS (1992) Fractionating language: Different neural subsystems with different sensitive periods. Cereb Cortex 2(3):244-258.
23. Van Petten C (1993) A comparison of lexical and sentence-level context effects in event-related potentials. Lang Cogn Process 8(4):485-531.
24. Kutas M, Hillyard SA (1984) Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association. Nature 307(5947):161-163. (Pubitemid 14132900)
25. van Berkum JJA, Hagoort P, Brown CM (1999) Semantic integration in sentences and discourse: Evidence from the N400. J Cogn Neurosci 11(6):657-671.
26. Neville HJ, Nicol JL, Barss A, Forster KI, Garrett MF (1991) Syntactically based sentence processing classes: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. J Cogn Neurosci 3(2):151-165.
27. Friederici AD (2002) Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing. Trends Cogn Sci 6(2):78-84. (Pubitemid 34119178)
28. Hagoort P, Brown C, Groothusen J (1993) The syntactic positive shift (SPS) as an ERP measure of syntactic processing. Lang Cogn Process 8(4):439-483.
29. Friederici AD, Hahne A, Mecklinger A (1996) Temporal structure of syntactic parsing: Early and late event-related brain potential effects. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 22(5):1219-1248. (Pubitemid 126491358)
30. Deutsch A, Bentin S (2001) Syntactic and semantic factors in processing gender agreement in Hebrew: Evidence from ERPs and eye movements. J Mem Lang 45(2):200-224. (Pubitemid 33633923)
31. Kluender R, Kutas M (1993) Bridging the gap: Evidence from ERPs on the processing of unbounded dependencies. J Cogn Neurosci 5(2):196-214. (Pubitemid 23123845)
32. Roesler F, Pechmann T, Streb J, Roeder B, Hennighausen E (1998) Parsing of sentences in a language with varying word order: Word-by-word variations of processing demands are revealed by event-related brain potentials. J Mem Lang 38(2):150-176. (Pubitemid 128348534)
33. Friederici AD, Wang Y, Herrmann CS, Maess B, Oertel U (2000) Localization of early syntactic processes in frontal and temporal cortical areas: A magnetoencephalographic study. Hum Brain Mapp 11(1):1-11.
34. Gross J et al. (1998) Magnetic field tomography analysis of continuous speech. Brain Topogr 10(4):273-281. (Pubitemid 28362542)
35. Osterhout L, Holcomb PJ (1992) Event-related brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly. J Mem Lang 31(6):785-806.
36. Osterhout L, Bersick M (1997) Brain potentials reflect violations of gender stereotypes. Mem Cognit 25(3):273-285. (Pubitemid 27225076)
37. Neville HJ, et al. (1997) Neural systems mediating American sign language: Effects of sensory experience and age of acquisition. Brain Lang 57(3):285-308. (Pubitemid 27187873)
38. Kutas M, Neville HJ, Holcomb PJ (1987) A preliminary comparison of the N400 response to semantic anomalies during reading, listening and signing. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol Suppl 39:325-330.
39. Liddell SK (2000) Indicating verbs and pronouns: Pointing away from agreement. The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, eds Emmorey KD, Lane HL (Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ), pp 303-320.
40. Klima E, Bellugi U (1979) The Signs of Language (Harvard Univ Press, Cambridge, MA).
41. Holcomb PJ, Coffey SA, Neville HJ (1992) Visual and auditory sentence processing: A developmental analysis using event-related brain potentials. Dev Neuropsychol 8(2-3):203-241.
42. Connolly JF, Phillips NA (1994) Event-related potential components reflect phonological and semantic processing of the terminal word of spoken sentences. J Cogn Neurosci 6(3):256-266. (Pubitemid 24249586)
43. Emmorey K, Corina D (1993) Hemispheric specialization for ASL signs and English words: Differences between imageable and abstract forms. Neuropsychologia 31(7):645-653. (Pubitemid 23225381)
44. Corina DP, Knapp HP (2006) Lexical retrieval in American Sign Language production. Papers in Laboratory Phonology 8: Varieties of Phonological Competence, eds Goldstein LM, Whalen DH, Best CT (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin), pp 213-239.
45. Repp BH, Mann VA (1981) Perceptual assessment of fricative-stop coarticulation. J Acoust Soc Am 69(4):1154-1163.
46. Repp BH, Mann VA (1982) Fricative-stop coarticulation: Acoustic and perceptual evidence. J Acoust Soc Am 71(6):1562-1567.
47. Holle H, Gunter TC (2007) The role of iconic gestures in speech disambiguation: ERP evidence. J Cogn Neurosci 19(7):1175-1192. (Pubitemid 47026506)
48. Kelly SD, Kravitz C, Hopkins M (2004) Neural correlates of bimodal speech and gesture comprehension. Brain Lang 89(1):253-260. (Pubitemid 38316920)
49. Ozyurek A, Willems RM, Kita S, Hagoort P (2007) On-line integration of semantic information from speech and gesture: Insights from event-related brain potentials. J Cogn Neurosci 19(4):605-616. (Pubitemid 46495292)
50. Osterhout L (1997) On the brain response to syntactic anomalies: Manipulations of word position and word class reveal individual differences. Brain Lang 59(3):494-522. (Pubitemid 27387868)
51. Hahne A, Friederici AD (2002) Differential task effects on semantic and syntactic processes as revealed by ERPs. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 13(3):339-356. (Pubitemid 34252965)
52. Besson M, Kutas M, Van Petten C (1992) An event-related potential (ERP) analysis of semantic congruity and repetition effects in sentences. J Cogn Neurosci 4(2):132-149.
53. Rugg MD, Doyle MC, Wells T (1995) Word and nonword repetition within- and across-modality: An event-related potential study. J Cogn Neurosci 7(2):209-227.
54. Koelsch S, Friederici AD (2003) Toward the neural basis of processing structure in music. Comparative results of different neurophysiological investigation methods. Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:15-28. (Pubitemid 38064795)
55. Oldfield RC (1971) The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 9(1):97-113.
56. Greenhouse SW, Geisser S (1959) On methods in the analysis of profile data. Psychometrika 95-112.