Perception study -- ASL vs. Gestures

[Woll, Bencie]

This paper is an fMRI study which looks at processing of bookies' Tic-Tac compared to processing BSL.

MacSweeney M, Campbell R,  Woll B, Giampietro V, David AS, McGuire PK, Calvert GA, Brammer MJ (2004) Dissociating linguistic and non-linguistic gestural communication in the brain. Neuroimage 22(4):1605-18.

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From: linguists interested in signed languages [mailto:SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] On Behalf Of Grushkin, Donald A
Sent: 20 April 2012 16:48
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Subject: Perception study -- ASL vs. Gestures

Has there ever been a study investigating whether nonsigners with no exposure to ASL or other signed languages can detect the difference between gestures and natural signed languages such as ASL?  I seem to think I did come across something like that once, but cannot rememmber where or who, if it's not a figment of my imagination.  

--Don Grushkin
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