Neural responses to meaningless pseudosigns: Evidence for sign-based phonetic processing in superior temporal cortex

Brain and Language

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-38

  Emmorey, Karen ^a   Xu, Jiang ^b   Braun, Allen ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Deaf signers; FMRI; Phonology; Pseudowords; Sign language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PHONETICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS;

BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SIGN LANGUAGE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953737154     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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