Title |
ERP correlates of German Sign Language processing in deaf native signers
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, May 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-15-62 |
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Authors |
Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber, Nils Skotara, Monique Kügow, Uta Salden, Davide Bottari, Brigitte Röder |
Abstract |
The present study investigated the neural correlates of sign language processing of Deaf people who had learned German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) from their Deaf parents as their first language. Correct and incorrect signed sentences were presented sign by sign on a computer screen. At the end of each sentence the participants had to judge whether or not the sentence was an appropriate DGS sentence. Two types of violations were introduced: (1) semantically incorrect sentences containing a selectional restriction violation (implausible object); (2) morphosyntactically incorrect sentences containing a verb that was incorrectly inflected (i.e., incorrect direction of movement). Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 74 scalp electrodes. |
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