The study of sign languages provides a unique perspective on the human capacity for language and enables researchers to distinguish universal properties of language and its neural implementation from modality-specific adaptations. This course …
Deafness and sign languages provide a stringent test of whether or to what extent the brain’s language system is tied to speech or constitutes a modality-independent neural architecture. Converging evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses, task-based …
The lateralization of language to the left hemisphere of the human brain constitutes one of the classic examples of asymmetry in biology. At the same time, it is also commonly understood that damage to the left hemisphere does not lead to a complete …
The human capacity for language is rooted in our ability to combine lexical items into hierarchically structured phrases and sentences, a cognitive process primarily subserved by a left-hemispheric network consisting of posterior inferior frontal …