Dissociating neural correlates of meaningful emblems from meaningless gestures in deaf signers and hearing non-signers

Brain Research

Volumn 1478, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-35

  Husain, Fatima T ^a,b   Patkin, Debra J ^a   Kim, Jieun ^a   Braun, Allen R ^a   Horwitz, Barry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ASL; Deaf; Emblem; fMRI; Gesture; Meaning; Meaningful; Non signer; Normal hearing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GESTURE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INSULA; LINGUISTICS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIGN LANGUAGE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; EMBLEMS AND INSIGNIA; GESTURES; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866500865     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.08.029     Document Type: Article

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