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Peer reviewedSoderfeldt, Birgitta; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1994
Examined cerebral activation during sign language comprehension in six persons with deafness and nine hearing persons, all of whose parents were deaf. The group with deafness showed more activation than the hearing group in the right parieto-occipital region, indicating that they were more dependent on the spatial components in sign language than…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis, Deafness
