Cheryl M. Capek

TL;DR: The authors found that the neural systems supporting signed and spoken languages are very similar: both involve a predominantly left-lateralised perisylvian network. But they also highlighted processing differences between languages in these different modalities.

TL;DR: It is found that sensory and cognitive experience cause plasticity in anatomically and functionally distinguishable substrates and suggests that after plastic reorganization, cortical regions adapt to process a different type of input signal, but preserve the nature of the computation they perform.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that activation in the left superior temporal regions for silent speechreading can be modulated by both hearing status and speechreading skill.

TL;DR: Comparison of the processing of speechreading and sign processing in deaf native signers of British Sign Language who were also proficient speechreaders found distinct regions within the temporal cortex are not only differentially sensitive to perception of the distinctive articulators for speech and for sign but also show sensitivity to the different articulators within the (signed) language.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that biological constraints and experience shape the development of neural systems important for language, including sign language.