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The Neural Representation of Language in Users of American Sign Language.
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Corina, David P.; McBurney, Susan L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2001
Studies of American Sign language including functional magnetic resonance imaging of deaf signers confirms the importance of left hemisphere structures in signed language, but also the contributions of right hemisphere regions to sign language processing. A case study involving cortical stimulation mapping in a deaf signer provides evidence for…
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Case Studies
Suppression and Facilitation of Pragmatic Performance: Effects of Emotional Content on Discourse Following Right and Left Brain Damage.
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Bloom, Ronald L.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study examined the effect of emotional content on the verbal pragmatic aspects of discourse production in right-brain-damaged (RBD), left-brain-damaged (LBD), and normal control adults. In the nonemotional conditions, LBDs were particularly impaired in pragmatics, whereas in the emotional condition, RBDs demonstrated pragmatic deficits.…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Aberrant Lateralization of Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses by Individuals with Down Syndrome.
Miezejeski, Charles M.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1994
Brainstem auditory evoked response latencies were studied in 80 males (13 with Down's syndrome). Latencies for waves P3 and P5 were shorter for Down's syndrome subjects, who also showed a different pattern of left versus right ear responses. Results suggest decreased lateralization and receptive and expressive language ability among people with…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Children, Downs Syndrome