Introduction. Inner speech, also referred to as inner voice or verbal imagery/thought, is the experience of speaking to oneself in the mind’s ear, including the ability to simulate future conversations or replay past conversations with relative ease. …
Introduction. Congenital deafness and sign language acquisition provide a unique model for investigating how sensory and language-related experience shape structural brain organization. Neuroimaging studies have consistently demonstrated that sign …
Introduction: Syntax, the ability to combine discrete linguistic elements into hierarchically structured expressions, is a defining feature of human language. In cognitive neuroscience, syntactic processing encompasses the retrieval and manipulation …
Introduction: Iconicity, the non-arbitrary mapping between a sign’s form and its meaning, is a pervasive feature of sign languages (Perniss, Thompson, & Vigliocco, 2010, Front. Psychol.). Despite the fact that an average of one third of the lexical …
Contemporary research on language and communication has expanded beyond its traditional focus on spoken and written forms to encompass signing, gestures, facial expressions, and other bodily actions. This shift has been accompanied by methodological …
This study presents a refined cytoarchitectonic parcellation of Broca’s region into four distinct subdivisions (44p, 44a, 45p, and 45a), revealing clear microstructural and functional differentiation. High-resolution 3D reconstructions and …
Sign languages are perceived visually and externalized using the signer’s hands, face, and body. During sign language comprehension, deaf signers primarily focus their gaze on the face, while hearing non-signers attend more to the hands of a signer. …
Introduction: Functional localizers in fMRI enable the precise and participant-specific identification of voxels that respond to a particular cognitive function or task of interest (e.g., Kanwisher et al., 1997; Saxe et al., 2006) and have been …
Introduction: The major networks implicated in language processing can also be discerned using resting-state MRI and several studies have used data-driven approaches to study whole-brain resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) in deaf signers. …
Die Studie untersucht die Iconizität in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DSG) aus kompositioneller Perspektive, indem sie die phonologischen und semantischen Parameter von 50 lexikalischen Gebärden analysiert. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass …