The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

There is growing evidence that sensory deprivation is associated with crossmodal
neuroplastic changes in the brain. After visual or auditory deprivation, brain areas that are …

Rethinking Innateness asks the question," What does it really mean to say that a behavior is
innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels …

Animal studies have shown that sensory deprivation in one modality can have striking
effects on the development of the remaining modalities. Although recent studies of deaf and …

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

Reaction time (RT) differences to visual stimuli as a function of expectancy have been
attributed to changes in perceptual processing or entirely to shifts in decision and response …

When the brain is deprived of input from one sensory modality, it often compensates with
supranormal performance in one or more of the intact sensory systems. In the absence of …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

When an observer detects a target in a rapid stream of visual stimuli, there is a brief period of
time during which the detection of subsequent targets is impaired. In this study, event-related …

This study compared and contrasted semantic priming in the visual and auditory modalities
using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and behavioural measures (errors and reaction …