A common neural system is activated in hearing non-signers to process French Sign language and spoken French

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-87

  Courtin, Cyril ^a   Jobard, Gael ^a   Vigneau, Mathieu ^a   Beaucousin, Virginie ^a   Razafimandimby, Annick ^a   Hervé, Pierre Yves ^a   Mellet, Emmanuel ^a   Zago, Laure ^a   Petit, Laurent ^a   Mazoyer, Bernard ^b,c   Tzourio Mazoyer, Nathalie ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

FMRI; Sign language; Speech; Superior temporal sulcus; Text; Video

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GESTURE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN; CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650303912     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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