The signing brain: the neurobiology of sign language
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...During language processing, speakers of English, Mandarin, and sign languages activate a leftlateralized network of brain regions in the prefrontal, lateral temporal, and temporoparietal cortices (5, 6)....
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...lateralization to the processing of a spoken language (84)....
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...The unanimous interpretation, reinforced by the sign aphasia literature (6), has been that the perisylvian cortices process languages that possess this canonical, rule-based structure, independent of the modality in which they are expressed....
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...Over the past decade, neuroimaging studies have clearly and reproducibly demonstrated that American Sign Language, British Sign Language, Langue des Signes Québécoise, indeed all sign languages studied thus far, elicit patterns of activity in core perisylvian areas that are, for the most part, indistinguishable from those accompanying the production and comprehension of spoken language (6)....
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...Similar patterns of activation are also characteristically observed for comprehension of signed language (6) (see SI Note 3), and lesions of these regions typically result in aphasia for both spoken and signed languages (6, 18)....
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...’’ The IFG plays an unambiguous role in language processing and damage to the area typically results in spoken and sign language aphasia (6, 13, 14)....
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..., comprehension of words or of simple syntactic structures (6, 13, 14)....
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...Modality dependence and independence: the perspective of sign languages The study of sign languages has provided a powerful tool for investigating the neurobiology of human language (for review, see Emmorey, 2002; MacSweeney et al., 2008; Emmorey and McCullough, 2009)....
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