Language and the Brain Strand

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Language and the Brain Strand
Karen Emmorey San Diego State University
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The Neural Systems Underlying Recognition of
Emotional and Linguistic Facial Expressions
Stephen McCullough
Karen Emmorey
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Emotional Expressions
happy sad angry
surprised disgust fear
McCullough, Emmorey Sereno, CBR, 2005
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Fusiform Gyrus
Linguistic Facial Expressions
Emotional Facial Expressions
Deaf Hearing
Deaf Hearing
McCullough, Emmorey Sereno, CBR, 2005
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The neural organizationfor sign versus speech
productionKaren Emmorey, Stephen
McCulloughHanna Damasio, Thomas Grabowski
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Left Hemisphere Right Hemisphere
Picture Naming
Nouns
Verbs
Prepositions
Emmorey et al. 2002, NeuroImage 2003,
Neuropsychologia 2004, Brain Lang.
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Signing (red) versus speaking (purple) Noun
production
Left Hemisphere Right
Hemisphere
Sign production may depend more upon
proprioceptive feedback
Emmorey et al. (2005 NeuroImage
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