classifiers and the brain

[Adam C Schembri]

Here's one on BSL:

MacSweeney,M., Woll,B., Campbell,R., Calvert,G.A., McGuire,P.K.,  
David,A.S., Simmons,A., Brammer,M.J. (2002). Neural correlates of  
British sign language comprehension: spatial processing demands of  
topographic language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14(7),  
1064-1075.

Adam

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On 4 Nov 2007, at 05:09, Clifton Langdon-Grigg wrote:

> I saw this poster a while back so my memory is a bit fuzzy on this
> one, but I believe it compares fMRI scans for pantomime, nonsense
> signs, and verbs (I think verbs=classifiers in this case, but I'm not
> sure.)
> Below is what I wrote down for that poster, hope it helps you Petra.
> --Clifton
>
> Title: Perception of Pantomime, American Sign Language verbs &
> nonsense signs by deaf signers & hearing non-signers.
> Authors: Karen Emmorey, Jiang Xu (NIDCD, NIH), Patrick Gannon (Mount
> Sinai Medical Center), Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago),
> Allen Braun (NIDCD, NIH).
> References: Corina, D., Chiu, Y-S., Knapp, H., Greenwald, R., San
> Jose-Robertson, L. & Braun, A. (in press). Neural correlates of human
> action perception in deaf & hearing subjects.
>
>
> On 11/3/07, Petra Eccarius Brylow <eccarius at purdue.edu> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Does anybody know of any brain studies--imaging, lesion effects, or
>> otherwise--that have been done involving classifiers*  in sign
>> languages?
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