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| Mairead MacSweeneySummaryAffiliation: University College London Country: UK Publications
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Dispersed activation in the left temporal cortex for speech-reading in congenitally deaf peopleM MacSweeney
Department of Human Communication Science, University College London, UK
Proc Biol Sci 268:451-7. 2001..Early acoustic experience may be required for regions within the left temporal cortex in order to develop into a coherent network with subareas devoted to specific speech analysis functions...- Enhanced activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in deaf and dyslexic adults during rhymingMairead MacSweeney
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Brain 132:1928-40. 2009..Thus, the brain appears to develop a similar solution to a processing problem that has different antecedents in these two populations... - The signing brain: the neurobiology of sign languageMairead MacSweeney
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
Trends Cogn Sci 12:432-40. 2008..Recent studies have also highlighted processing differences between languages in these different modalities. These studies provide rich insights into language and communication processes in deaf and hearing people... - Neural systems underlying British Sign Language and audio-visual English processing in native usersMairead MacSweeney
BBSU, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
Brain 125:1583-93. 2002..However, in the absence of auditory input this region can be recruited for visual processing... - Dissociating linguistic and nonlinguistic gestural communication in the brainMairead MacSweeney
Department of Human Communication Science, University College London, London, WC1N 1PG, UK
Neuroimage 22:1605-18. 2004..This suggests that the left posterior perisylvian cortex is of fundamental importance to language processing, regardless of the modality in which it is conveyed... - Lexical and sentential processing in British Sign LanguageMairead MacSweeney
BBSU, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Hum Brain Mapp 27:63-76. 2006..These data suggest that these left perisylvian regions are differentially associated with sentence processing, whatever the modality of the linguistic input... - Hand and mouth: cortical correlates of lexical processing in British Sign Language and speechreading EnglishCheryl M Capek
Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre DCAL, University College London, London, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 20:1220-34. 2008..Distinct regions within the temporal cortex are not only differentially sensitive to perception of the distinctive articulators for speech and for sign but also show sensitivity to the different articulators within the (signed) language... - The signer and the sign: cortical correlates of person identity and language processing from point-light displaysRuth Campbell
ESRC Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre DCAL, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK
Neuropsychologia 49:3018-26. 2011..Inferior temporal regions associated with the visual recognition of a person appear to be required during SL processing, for both carrier and content information... - Fingerspelling, signed language, text and picture processing in deaf native signers: the role of the mid-fusiform gyrusDafydd Waters
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Neuroimage 35:1287-302. 2007..These results are discussed in light of recent proposals that the mid-fusiform gyrus may act as an integration region, mediating between visual input and higher-order stimulus properties... - Neural correlates of British sign language comprehension: spatial processing demands of topographic languageMairead MacSweeney
Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 14:1064-75. 2002.... - Sign language and the brain: a reviewRuth Campbell
ESRC Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London, 49 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ 13:3-20. 2008.... - Speechreading circuits in people born deafMairead MacSweeney
BBSU, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Neuropsychologia 40:801-7. 2002..These data suggest that acoustic experience shapes the functional circuits for analysing speech. We speculate on the functional role, the posterior cingulate gyrus may play in speechreading by profoundly congenitally deaf people... - Cortical circuits for silent speechreading in deaf and hearing peopleCheryl M Capek
Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 49 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, United Kingdom
Neuropsychologia 46:1233-41. 2008..Together, these findings indicate that activation in the left superior temporal regions for silent speechreading can be modulated by both hearing status and speechreading skill... - Phonological processing in deaf signers and the impact of age of first language acquisitionMairead MacSweeney
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Neuroimage 40:1369-79. 2008..This is the first neuroimaging demonstration that age of first language acquisition has implications not only for the neural systems supporting the first language, but also for networks supporting languages learned subsequently... - Cortical substrates for the perception of face actions: an fMRI study of the specificity of activation for seen speech and for meaningless lower-face acts (gurning)R Campbell
Department of Human Communication Science, University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1 N1PF, London, UK
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 12:233-43. 2001..However, some temporal regions, such as the posterior part of the right superior temporal sulcus, appear to be common processing sites for processing both seen speech and gurns... - Acoustic noise and functional magnetic resonance imaging: current strategies and future prospectsEdson Amaro
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, University College, London, UK
J Magn Reson Imaging 16:497-510. 2002..We also provide new data, using a silent event-related (SER) design, which demonstrate higher blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response to a simple auditory cue when compared to a conventional image acquisition...