Sign language and pantomime production differentially engage frontal and parietal cortices

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 878-901

  Emmorey, Karen ^a   Mccullough, Stephen ^a   Mehta, Sonya ^b   Ponto, Laura L B ^c   Grabowski, Thomas J ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Language production; Neuroimaging; Pantomime; Sign language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PANTOMIME; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79960524296     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.492643     Document Type: Article

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