Cochlear implantation (CI) for prelingual deafness: the relevance of studies of brain organization and the role of first language acquisition in considering outcome …

R Campbell, M MacSweeney, B Woll - Frontiers in Human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Cochlear implantation (CI) for profound congenital hearing impairment, while often
successful in restoring hearing to the deaf child, does not always result in effective speech …

Neurolinguistic processing when the brain matures without language

RI Mayberry, T Davenport, A Roth, E Halgren - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
The extent to which development of the brain language system is modulated by the temporal
onset of linguistic experience relative to post-natal brain maturation is unknown. This crucial …

The cortical organization of syntactic processing is supramodal: Evidence from American Sign Language

W Matchin, D İlkbaşaran, M Hatrak, A Roth… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Areas within the left-lateralized neural network for language have been found to be sensitive
to syntactic complexity in spoken and written language. Previous research has revealed that …

Neural correlates of sign language production revealed by electrocorticography

J Shum, L Fanda, P Dugan, WK Doyle, O Devinsky… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective The combined spatiotemporal dynamics underlying sign language production
remain largely unknown. To investigate these dynamics compared to speech production, we …

Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners: Longitudinal case studies in American Sign Language

N Ferjan Ramirez, MK Leonard, TS Davenport… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
One key question in neurolinguistics is the extent to which the neural processing system for
language requires linguistic experience during early life to develop fully. We conducted a …

Gamma oscillatory activity related to language prediction

L Wang, P Hagoort, O Jensen - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
Using magnetoencephalography, the current study examined gamma activity associated
with language prediction. Participants read high-and low-constraining sentences in which …

Benefits of augmentative signs in word learning: Evidence from children who are deaf/hard of hearing and children with specific language impairment

L van Berkel-van Hoof, D Hermans, H Knoors… - Research in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Augmentative signs may facilitate word learning in children with vocabulary
difficulties, for example, children who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH) and children with …

Modality-specific processing precedes amodal linguistic processing during L2 sign language acquisition: A longitudinal study

JT Williams, I Darcy, SD Newman - Cortex, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study tracked activation pattern differences in response to sign language
processing by late hearing second language learners of American Sign Language. Learners …

What do bilingual models tell us about the neurocognition of multiple languages?

A Grant, J Legault, P Li - The handbook of the neuroscience of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter provides a review of both the bilingual cognitive models and the neural
evidence in support of these models. The interactive activation in the bilingual interactive …

Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners: Longitudinal case studies in American Sign Language

NF Ramirez, MK Leonard… - … Cortex (New York …, 2014 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
One key question in neurolinguistics is the extent to which the neural processing system for
language requires linguistic experience during early life to develop fully. We conducted a …