Sign activates the auditory area.

[Carolyn L. Ostrander]

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Eric Gumpert wrote:

> Alternately, if there were proof that during, say, the performance of spoken
> English, the visual cortex were activated--that would be further proof that
> English is a fully developed linguistic system.
>
Well, the McGurk effect would seem to point in that direction.
Language input probably is multi-sensory, so one might predict such a
result.

It seems possible, though that some of the "auditory" centers are actually
general linguistic centers.

 Carolyn Ostrander