The capacity for language constitutes a cornerstone of human cognition and distinguishes our species from other animals. Research in the cognitive sciences has demonstrated that this capacity is not bound to speech but can also be externalized in the …
The human brain has the capacity to automatically compute the grammatical relations of words in sentences, be they spoken or written. This species-specific ability for syntax lies at the core of our capacity for language and is primarily subserved by …
Sign language (SL) conveys linguistic information using gestures instead of sounds. Here, we apply a meta-analytic estimation approach to neuroimaging studies (N = 23; subjects = 316) and ask whether SL comprehension in deaf signers relies on the …