Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in hearing late learners of sign language.

ABSTRACT: The neural plasticity underlying language learning is a process rather than a single event. However, the dynamics of training-induced brain reorganization have rarely been examined, especially using a multimodal magnetic resonance imaging approach, which allows us to study the relationship between functional and structural changes. We focus on sign language acquisition in hearing adults who underwent an 8-month long course and five neuroimaging sessions. We assessed what neural changes occurred as participants learned a new language in a different modality-as reflected by task-based activity, connectivity changes, and co-occurring structural alterations. Major changes in the activity pattern appeared after just 3 months of learning, as indicated by increases in activation within the modali

SUBMITTER: Banaszkiewicz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7776004 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature