An fMRI study of perception and action in deaf signers.

ABSTRACT: Since the discovery of mirror neurons, there has been a great deal of interest in understanding the relationship between perception and action, and the role of the human mirror system in language comprehension and production. Two questions have dominated research. One concerns the role of Broca's area in speech perception. The other concerns the role of the motor system more broadly in understanding action-related language. The current study investigates both of these questions in a way that bridges research on language with research on manual actions. We studied the neural basis of observing and executing American Sign Language (ASL) object and action signs. In an fMRI experiment, deaf signers produced signs depicting actions and objects as well as observed/comprehended signs of actions a

SUBMITTER: Okada K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4760350 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature