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| Karen EmmoreySummaryAffiliation: San Diego State University Country: USA Publications
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The neural correlates of sign versus word productionKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego State University, 6495 Alvarado Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Neuroimage 36:202-8. 2007..g., selection of hand configuration and place of articulation features), whereas activation within SPL may reflect proprioceptive monitoring of motoric output...- CNS activation and regional connectivity during pantomime observation: no engagement of the mirror neuron system for deaf signersKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego State University, 6495 Alvarado Road, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Neuroimage 49:994-1005. 2010..We conclude that the lack of activation within the MNS for deaf signers does not support an account of human communication that depends upon automatic sensorimotor resonance between perception and action... - Processing orthographic structure: associations between print and fingerspellingKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ 17:194-204. 2012..Rather, we suggest that both good readers and good fingerspellers have established strong representations of English and that fingerspelling may aid in the development and maintenance of English vocabulary... - The bimodal bilingual brain: effects of sign language experienceKaren Emmorey
San Diego State University, 6495 Alvarado Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Brain Lang 109:124-32. 2009.... - The use of visual feedback during signing: evidence from signers with impaired visionKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego State University, 6495 Alvarado Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ 14:99-104. 2009..Overall, we hypothesize that signers use visual feedback to phonetically calibrate the dimensions of signing space, rather than to monitor language output... - Eye gaze during comprehension of American Sign Language by native and beginning signersKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, 6495 Alvarado Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92102, USA
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ 14:237-43. 2009..We conclude that joint visual attention and attention to mouthing (for beginning signers), rather than linguistic complexity or processing load, affect gaze fixation patterns during sign language comprehension... - The source of enhanced cognitive control in bilinguals: evidence from bimodal bilingualsKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego State University, 6495 Alvarado Rd, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Psychol Sci 19:1201-6. 2008..These results trace the bilingual advantage in cognitive control to the unimodal bilingual's experience controlling two languages in the same modality... - Neural responses to meaningless pseudosigns: evidence for sign-based phonetic processing in superior temporal cortexKaren Emmorey
San Diego State University, United States
Brain Lang 117:34-8. 2011.... - Categorical perception of affective and linguistic facial expressionsStephen McCullough
University of California, San Diego, USA
Cognition 110:208-21. 2009..We conclude that CP effects for affective facial expressions can be influenced by language experience... - Effects of iconicity and semantic relatedness on lexical access in american sign languageRain G Bosworth
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:1573-81. 2010..These results confirm the existence of semantic priming for sign language and suggest that iconicity does not play a robust role in online lexical processing... - "Tip of the fingers" experiences by deaf signers: insights into the organization of a sign-based lexiconRobin Thompson
The University of California, San Diego, USA
Psychol Sci 16:856-60. 2005..The partial phonological information available during TOFs suggests that phonological features are accessed more simultaneously during lexical access for signed language than during lexical access for spoken language... - No difference in short-term memory span between sign and speechMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Psychol Sci 17:1093-4. 2006 - Neural systems underlying spatial language in American Sign LanguageKaren Emmorey
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
Neuroimage 17:812-24. 2002..g., flat surface). Overall, the results suggest more right hemisphere involvement when expressing spatial relations in ASL, perhaps because signing space is used to encode the spatial relationship between objects... - Neural systems underlying lexical retrieval for sign languageKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:85-95. 2003..Overall, the findings indicate that similar neuroanatomical areas are involved in lexical retrieval for both signs and words... - Neural organization for recognition of grammatical and emotional facial expressions in deaf ASL signers and hearing nonsignersStephen McCullough
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 22:193-203. 2005..The results indicate that function in part drives the lateralization of neural systems that process human facial expressions... - The neural correlates of spatial language in English and American Sign Language: a PET study with hearing bilingualsKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Neuroimage 24:832-40. 2005..Damasio et al., 2001, NeuroImage, 13). We conclude that the right hemisphere activation observed for ASL-English bilinguals was due to their life-long experience with spatial language in ASL... - Motor-iconicity of sign language does not alter the neural systems underlying tool and action namingKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA
Brain Lang 89:27-37. 2004.... - Conceptual locations and pronominal reference in American Sign LanguageKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
J Psycholinguist Res 33:321-31. 2004..Thus, the spatial nature of coreference in ASL does not alter the processing mechanism underlying the on-line interpretation of pronouns. Pronouns activate only referent nouns, not spatial location nouns associated with the referent... - A morphometric analysis of auditory brain regions in congenitally deaf adultsKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:10049-54. 2003.... - The puzzle of working memory for sign languageKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:521-3. 2004..At the same time, however, their results show that sign language and spoken language yield equivalent processing spans, suggesting that reliance on immediate-serial-recall measures in clinical and educational testing is misplaced... - The face of bimodal bilingualism: grammatical markers in American Sign Language are produced when bilinguals speak to English monolingualsJENNIE E PYERS
Department of Psychology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02842, USA
Psychol Sci 19:531-6. 2008..We conclude that morphosyntactic elements from two languages can be articulated simultaneously and that complete inhibition of the nonselected language is difficult... - Laughter among deaf signersRobert R Provine
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ 11:403-9. 2006..In an examination of other variables, the social dynamics of deaf and hearing people were similar, with "speakers" (those signing) laughing more than their audiences and females laughing more than males... - Comparing sign language and speech reveals a universal limit on short-term memory capacityMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Psychol Sci 17:682-3. 2006
Research Grants
- Neural Systems Underlying Sign Language ProductionKaren Emmorey; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Bimodal BilingualismKaren Emmorey; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- LANGUAGE, MODALITY AND THE BRAINKaren Emmorey; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Neural Systems Underlying Sign Language ProductionKaren Emmorey; Fiscal Year: 2009..abstract_text> ..
- Bimodal BilingualismKaren Emmorey; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- LANGUAGE, MODALITY AND THE BRAINKaren Emmorey; Fiscal Year: 2009..abstract_text> ..
- LANGUAGE, MODALITY AND THE BRAINKaren Emmorey; Fiscal Year: 2003..We also propose two studies using fMRI which investigate face processing and visual imagery; fMRI will provide an exquisitely detailed picture of the brain bases for these linguistic and cognitive functions. ..
- LANGUAGE, MODALITY AND THE BRAINKaren Emmorey; Fiscal Year: 2010..Knowledge of where sign language is represented in the brain can potentially provide crucial information to clinicians treating deaf patients with neurological injury or disease. ..