Sign activates the auditory area.

[Eleni Koutsomitopoulou]

Hi all,

Dr. Nishimura's findings reminded me one of Helen Neville's major findings that
visual stimuli evoke "auditory" potentials (i.e. potentials in the temporal
 lobe)
in deaf subjects. I don't have the exact reference in my head right now, but it
 is
a well-known outcome in the relevant (neurocognitive/neurolinguistic) literature
for ASL. Assuming that SLs are primary visual-gestural systems, one would say
 that
Dr. Nishimura's findings offer cross-linguistic evidence for
 modality-independent
theories on the neural substrate of languages. It is one more proof that SLs are
fully developed linguistic systems...

Eleni

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