ERP evidence for co-activation of English words during recognition of American Sign Language signs

B Lee, G Meade, KJ Midgley, PJ Holcomb, K Emmorey - Brain Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate co-activation of English words
during recognition of American Sign Language (ASL) signs. Deaf and hearing signers …

Implicit co-activation of American Sign Language in deaf readers: An ERP study

G Meade, KJ Midgley, ZS Sehyr, PJ Holcomb… - Brain and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In an implicit phonological priming paradigm, deaf bimodal bilinguals made semantic
relatedness decisions for pairs of English words. Half of the semantically unrelated pairs had …

Electrophysiological correlates of cross-linguistic semantic integration in hearing signers: N400 and LPC

S Zachau, P Korpilahti, JA Hämäläinen, L Ervast… - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
We explored semantic integration mechanisms in native and non-native hearing users of
sign language and non-signing controls. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were …

[HTML][HTML] How (and why) does iconicity effect lexical access: An electrophysiological study of American sign language

ME McGarry, KJ Midgley, PJ Holcomb, K Emmorey - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Prior research has found that iconicity facilitates sign production in picture-naming
paradigms and has effects on ERP components. These findings may be explained by two …

Tracking the time course of sign recognition using ERP repetition priming

K Emmorey, KJ Midgley, PJ Holcomb - Psychophysiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Repetition priming and event‐related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the time
course of sign recognition in deaf users of American Sign Language. Signers performed a …

Phonological and semantic priming in American Sign Language: N300 and N400 effects

G Meade, B Lee, KJ Midgley, PJ Holcomb… - Language, Cognition …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the electrophysiological signatures of phonological and semantic
priming in American Sign Language (ASL). Deaf signers made semantic relatedness …

Neurophysiological correlates of frequency, concreteness, and iconicity in American Sign Language

K Emmorey, K Winsler, KJ Midgley… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
To investigate possible universal and modality-specific factors that influence the
neurophysiological response during lexical processing, we recorded event-related …

Lexical access in American Sign Language: An ERP investigation of effects of semantics and phonology

E Gutiérrez, D Williams, M Grosvald, D Corina - Brain research, 2012 - Elsevier
That language forms (phonology) are arbitrarily related to their meanings (semantics) is
often considered a basic property of human languages. Naturally occurring sign languages …

The time course of cross-language activation in deaf ASL–English bilinguals

JP Morford, C Occhino-Kehoe, P Piñar… - Bilingualism …, 2017 - cambridge.org
What is the time course of cross-language activation in deaf sign–print bilinguals? Prior
studies demonstrating cross-language activation in deaf bilinguals used paradigms that …

Co-activation of the L2 during L1 auditory processing: An ERP cross-modal priming study

SC Bobb, K Von Holzen, J Mayor, N Mani… - Brain and language, 2020 - Elsevier
Several studies have shown that unbalanced bilinguals activate both of their languages
simultaneously during L2 processing; however, evidence for L2 activation while participants …