Objective: The current update of the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model
evaluates the predictive and postdictive aspects of speech understanding and …

The study of deafness and blindness has contributed unique knowledge to our
understanding of the brain, showing that environmental experience critically shapes neural …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

The first 40 years of research on the neurobiology of sign languages (1960–2000)
established that the same key left hemisphere brain regions support both signed and …

Early deafness results in crossmodal reorganization of the superior temporal cortex (STC).
Here, we investigated the effect of deafness on cognitive processing. Specifically, we …

The capacity for language constitutes a cornerstone of human cognition and distinguishes
our species from other animals. Research in the cognitive sciences has demonstrated that …

Deafness leads to brain modifications that are generally associated with a cross-modal
activity of the auditory cortex, particularly for visual stimulations. In the present study, we …

Many parts of the visuomotor system guide daily hand actions, like reaching for and
grasping objects. Do these regions depend exclusively on the hand as a specific body part …

The neurodevelopmental consequences of deafness on the functional neuroarchitecture of
the conceptual system have not been intensively investigated so far. Using functional …

Stimulus degradation adds to working memory load during speech processing. We
investigated whether this applies to sign processing and, if so, whether the mechanism …