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SUBMITTER: Weisberg J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5769874 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Weisberg Jill J McCullough Stephen S Emmorey Karen K
Brain and language 20150710
Code-blends (simultaneous words and signs) are a unique characteristic of bimodal bilingual communication. Using fMRI, we investigated code-blend comprehension in hearing native ASL-English bilinguals who made a semantic decision (edible?) about signs, audiovisual words, and semantically equivalent code-blends. English and ASL recruited a similar fronto-temporal network with expected modality differences: stronger activation for English in auditory regions of bilateral superior temporal cortex, ...[more]