Neuroanatomical differences in visual, motor, and language cortices between congenitally deaf signers, hearing signers, and hearing non-signers

• Main Authors: John S. Allen (Author), Karen eEmmorey (Author), Joel eBruss (Author), Hanna eDamasio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2013-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We investigated effects of sign language use and auditory deprivation from birth on the volumes of three cortical regions of the human brain: the visual cortex surrounding the calcarine sulcus in the occipital lobe; the language-related cortex in the inferior frontal gyrus (pars triangularis and par...