Electrophysiological evidence for phonological priming in Spanish Sign Language lexical access

Gutiérrez, Eva; Müller, Oliver; Baus, Cristina; Carreiras, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.018

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“…Phonology is generally considered to be arbitrarily related to semantics. In signed languages, however, phonology is not always independent of meaning (for an overview, see Gutiérrez, Williams, Grosvald, & Corina, 2012), and this relation seems to influence language processing (Grosvald, Lachaud, & Corina, 2012;Thompson, Vinson, & Vigliocco, 2010) and its neural underpinning (Rudner, Karlsson, Gunnarsson, & Rönnberg, 2013;Gutiérrez, Müller, Baus, & Carreiras, 2012).…”

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“…Studies that have compared these two phonological parameters identified differences in comprehension and production psycholinguistically (e.g., Orfanidou, Adam, McQueen, & Morgan, 2009;Carreiras, Gutiérrez-Sigut, Baquero, & Corina, 2008;Dye & Shih, 2006;Emmorey, McCullough, & Brentari, 2003), developmentally (e.g., Morgan, Barrett-Jones, & Stoneham, 2007;Karnopp, 2002;Siedlecki & Bonvillian, 1993), and neuropsychologically (Corina, 2000). In particular, the neural signature of handshape and location-based primes has been found to differ between signs and nonsigns and further interact with the semantic properties of signs Gutiérrez, Müller, et al, 2012). However, no study to date has investigated the differences in neural networks underlying monitoring of handshape and location.…”

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“…In linguistic (phonological) terms, location refers to the position of the signing hand in relation to the body. The initial location has been referred to as the equivalent of syllable onset in spoken languages (Brentari, 2002), with electrophysiological evidence suggesting that location triggers the activation of lexical candidates in signed languages, indicating a function similar to that of the onset in spoken word recognition (Gutiérrez, Müller, et al, 2012;Gutiérrez, Williams, et al, 2012). Perceptually, monitoring of location relates to the tracking of visual objects in space and in relation to equivalent positions relative to the viewer's body.…”

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Monitoring Different Phonological Parameters of Sign Language Engages the Same Cortical Language Network but Distinctive Perceptual Ones

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Abstract■ The study of signed languages allows the dissociation of sensorimotor and cognitive neural components of the language signal. Here we investigated the neurocognitive processes underlying the monitoring of two phonological parameters of sign languages: handshape and location. Our goal was to determine if brain regions processing sensorimotor characteristics of different phonological parameters of sign languages were also involved in phonological processing, with their activity being modulated by the linguistic content of manual actions. We conducted an fMRI experiment using manual actions varying in phonological structure and semantics: (1) signs of a familiar sign language (British Sign Language), (2) signs of an unfamiliar sign language (Swedish Sign Language), and (3) invented nonsigns that violate the phonological rules of British Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language or consist of nonoccurring combinations of phonological parameters. Three groups of participants were tested: deaf native signers, deaf nonsigners, and hearing nonsigners. Results show that the linguistic processing of different phonological parameters of sign language is independent of the sensorimotor characteristics of the language signal. Handshape and location were processed by different perceptual and taskrelated brain networks but recruited the same language areas. The semantic content of the stimuli did not influence this process, but phonological structure did, with nonsigns being associated with longer RTs and stronger activations in an action observation network in all participants and in the supramarginal gyrus exclusively in deaf signers. These results suggest higher processing demands for stimuli that contravene the phonological rules of a signed language, independently of previous knowledge of signed languages. We suggest that the phonological characteristics of a language may arise as a consequence of more efficient neural processing for its perception and production. ■

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Monitoring Different Phonological Parameters of Sign Language Engages the Same Cortical Language Network but Distinctive Perceptual Ones

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Kästner

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…PA has been suggested to reveal efficient access to phonological representations (e.g., Wagner & Torgesen, 1987), and may thus reflect a domain general processing mechanism (c.f., MacSweeney, Waters, Brammer, Woll, & Goswami, 2008) that is important for reading development in all children. Indirect support of this notion comes from studies indicating similarities in sub-lexical and lexical processing across the spoken and manual modality at a neural Gutiérrez, Müller, Baus, & Carreiras, 2012;Hosemann, Herrmann, Steinbach, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, & Schlesewsky, 2013;MacSweeney, Waters, et al, 2008) as well as a behavioral level (Baus, Gutiérrez, & Carreiras, 2014;Berent, Dupuis, & Brentari, 2014;Carreiras, Gutiérrez-Sigut, Baquero, & Corina, 2008;Corina, Hafer, & Welch, 2014). However, prior to the present work, only one study had investigated associations between sign language PA and reading in DHH signing children, indicating a positive relationship (McQuarrie & Abbott, 2013).…”

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“…This notion is supported by a growing amount of empirical work (e.g., Andin et al, 2014;Berent et al, 2014;Brentari, 2011;Corina, Hafer, et al, 2014;Gutiérrez, Müller, et al, 2012;Gutiérrez, Williams, et al, 2012;MacSweeney, Waters, et al, 2008;McQuarrie & Abbott, 2013). In a Swedish context, Andin et al, (2014) created a task in which the labels of stimuli could share handshapes in the Swedish manual alphabet or manual numeral systems or rimes in speech.…”

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Signs for Developing Reading : Sign Language and Reading Development in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

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2016

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Reading development is supported by strong language skills, not least in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. Regional Special Needs Schools (RSNS) in Sweden have a bilingual curriculum, that is, DHH pupils at these schools learn Swedish Sign Language and written and/or spoken Swedish. The work in the present thesis investigates reading development in DHH children who attend these schools and who are learning to read. The primary aim of the present work was to investigate whether the reading skills of DHH signing children can be improved via computerized sign language based literacy training aimed at strengthening the connections between sign language and written language. Another aim was to investigate concurrent and longitudinal associations between skills in reading, sign language, and cognition in this population. The results indicate that sign language skills support developing reading skills in RSNS pupils (Paper I and Paper IV). In particular, sign language based literacy training appears to support development of word reading (Paper IV). In addition, awareness of the sublexical structure of sign language seems to assist word reading (Paper I). Interestingly, the ability to imitate manual gestures was related to reading skills. More specifically, precision of imitation of unfamiliar signs was associated with development of word reading (Paper IV) and precision of imitation of familiar signs, i.e., vocabulary, seemed to be associated with developing reading comprehension (Paper IV). Results also suggest that working memory and Theory of Mind (ToM) are related to reading comprehension in RSNS pupils (Paper III). In addition to these findings relating to reading development, results also suggest that sign language experience enhance the establishment of representations of manual gestures (Paper II), and that progression in ToM seem to be typical, although delayed, in RSNS pupils who are learning to read (Paper III). Taken together, the associations revealed between sign language skills and reading development support the notion that sign language skills may provide a foundation for promotion of reading skills in DHH signing children. Thus, interventions that support development of sign-based representations and their manipulation and use in written language processing, may improve reading skills in this population. To account for the present findings, a model of written language processing is proposed. Working memory has a central role in integrating environmental stimuli and language-mediated representations, and thereby provides a platform for cross-modal language processing and multimodal language development. SammanfattningEn god språklig förmåga bidrar till god läsutveckling, inte minst hos döva och hörselskadade barn. Specialpedagogiska skolmyndighetens specialskolor för döva och hörselskadade (D/H) barn har en tvåspråkig läroplan som innebär att elever på dessa skolor lär sig både svenskt teckenspråk och skriven och/eller talad svenska. De fyra arbeten som ingår i avhandlingen undersöker l...

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Implicit co-activation of American Sign Language in deaf readers: An ERP study

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In an implicit phonological priming paradigm, deaf bimodal bilinguals made semantic relatedness decisions for pairs of English words. Half of the semantically unrelated pairs had phonologically related translations in American Sign Language (ASL). As in previous studies with unimodal bilinguals, targets in pairs with phonologically related translations elicited smaller negativities than targets in pairs with phonologically unrelated translations within the N400 window. This suggests that the same lexicosemantic mechanism underlies implicit co-activation of a non-target language, irrespective of language modality. In contrast to unimodal bilingual studies that find no behavioral effects, we observed phonological interference, indicating that bimodal bilinguals may not suppress the non-target language as robustly. Further, there was a subset of bilinguals who were aware of the ASL manipulation (determined by debrief), and they exhibited an effect of ASL phonology in a later time window (700–900ms). Overall, these results indicate modality-independent language co-activation that persists longer for bimodal bilinguals.

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Electrophysiological evidence for phonological priming in Spanish Sign Language lexical access

Cited by 41 publications

References 76 publications

Monitoring Different Phonological Parameters of Sign Language Engages the Same Cortical Language Network but Distinctive Perceptual Ones

Monitoring Different Phonological Parameters of Sign Language Engages the Same Cortical Language Network but Distinctive Perceptual Ones

Signs for Developing Reading : Sign Language and Reading Development in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

Implicit co-activation of American Sign Language in deaf readers: An ERP study

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