The neural correlates of spatial language in English and American Sign Language: a PET study with hearing bilinguals

Autor/a: EMMOREY, K.; GRABOWSKI, T.; MCCULOUGH, S.; PONTO, L.L.B.; HICHWA. R.D.; DAMASIOA, H.
Año: 2005
Editorial: NeuroImage, nº 24 (2005) pp. 832-840
Tipo de código: DOI
Código: 10.10l6/j.neuroimage
Soporte: Digital

Temas

Detalles

Rather than specifying spatial relations with a closed-class set of prepositions, American Sign Language (ASL) encodes spatial relations using space itself via classifier constructions. In these constructions, handshape morphemes specify object type, and the position of the hands in signing space schematically represents the spatial relation between objects. A [15O]water PET study was conducted to investigate the neural regions engaged during the production of English prepositions and ASL locative classifier constructions in hearing subjects with deaf parents (ASL-English bilinguals).