Signed words in the congenitally deaf evoke typical late lexicosemantic responses with no early visual responses in left superior temporal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 9700-9705

  Leonard, Matthew K ^a   Ramirez, Naja Ferjan ^a   Torres, Christina ^a   Travis, Katherine E ^a   Hatrak, Marla ^a   Mayberry, Rachel I ^a   Halgren, Eric ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFBLINDNESS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DEAFNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863653844     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1002-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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