Matching pictures and signs: An ERP study of the effects of iconic structural alignment in American sign language

McGarry, Meghan E.; Massa, Natasja; Mott, Megan; Midgley, Katherine J.; Holcomb, Phillip J.; Emmorey, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108051

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“…As a rule, the answers are given orally and then recorded, but written responses might be elicited too (Torrance et al, 2017;Miller et al, 2021). For vision-impaired participants, the mode of presentation might be switched to auditory, involving different processes, and a sign language paradigm is used with patients with hearing loss (Navarrete et al, 2017;McGarry et al, 2020). The stimuli in confrontation naming are presented sequentially and do not repeat, and both object and action naming can be tested.…”

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Picture naming test through the prism of cognitive neuroscience and linguistics: adapting the test for cerebellar tumor survivors—or pouring new wine in old sacks?

Morkovina,

Manukyan,

Sharapkova

2024

Front. Psychol.

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A picture naming test (PNT) has long been regarded as an integral part of neuropsychological assessment. In current research and clinical practice, it serves a variety of purposes. PNTs are used to assess the severity of speech impairment in aphasia, monitor possible cognitive decline in aging patients with or without age-related neurodegenerative disorders, track language development in children and map eloquent brain areas to be spared during surgery. In research settings, picture naming tests provide an insight into the process of lexical retrieval in monolingual and bilingual speakers. However, while numerous advances have occurred in linguistics and neuroscience since the classic, most widespread PNTs were developed, few of them have found their way into test design. Consequently, despite the popularity of PNTs in clinical and research practice, their relevance and objectivity remain questionable. The present study provides an overview of literature where relevant criticisms and concerns have been expressed over the recent decades. It aims to determine whether there is a significant gap between conventional test design and the current understanding of the mechanisms underlying lexical retrieval by focusing on the parameters that have been experimentally proven to influence picture naming. We discuss here the implications of these findings for improving and facilitating test design within the picture naming paradigm. Subsequently, we highlight the importance of designing specialized tests with a particular target group in mind, so that test variables could be selected for cerebellar tumor survivors.

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Picture naming test through the prism of cognitive neuroscience and linguistics: adapting the test for cerebellar tumor survivors—or pouring new wine in old sacks?

Morkovina,

Manukyan,

Sharapkova

2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…EEG was amplified with SynAmpsRT amplifiers (Neuroscan-Compumedics) with a bandpass of DC to 100 Hz and was sampled continuously at 500 Hz. By using a 39-channel cap, we are able to maintain a basis of comparison to previous work in the field that commonly uses 32-channel caps (Chauncey et al, 2009;Declerck et al, 2021aDeclerck et al, , 2021bGrainger et al, 2006;McGarry et al, 2021;Meade et al, 2018Meade et al, , 2022.…”

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Taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in picture naming as revealed by Laplacian‐transformed event‐related potentials

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“…Finally, a recent ERP study by McGarry et al (2021c) examined the neural response when ASL signers performed a picture-sign matching task in which the picture either visuallyaligned with the iconic sign (e.g., a bird in profile for the sign BIRD in which the fingers depict a bird's beak) or was not aligned with the sign (e.g., a picture of a bird in flight). Replicating previous behavioral studies (Thompson et al, 2009;Vinson et al, 2015), signers were faster for the aligned than non-aligned trials.…”

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New Perspectives on the Neurobiology of Sign Languages

Emmorey

2021

Front. Commun.

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The first 40 years of research on the neurobiology of sign languages (1960–2000) established that the same key left hemisphere brain regions support both signed and spoken languages, based primarily on evidence from signers with brain injury and at the end of the 20th century, based on evidence from emerging functional neuroimaging technologies (positron emission tomography and fMRI). Building on this earlier work, this review focuses on what we have learned about the neurobiology of sign languages in the last 15–20 years, what controversies remain unresolved, and directions for future research. Production and comprehension processes are addressed separately in order to capture whether and how output and input differences between sign and speech impact the neural substrates supporting language. In addition, the review includes aspects of language that are unique to sign languages, such as pervasive lexical iconicity, fingerspelling, linguistic facial expressions, and depictive classifier constructions. Summary sketches of the neural networks supporting sign language production and comprehension are provided with the hope that these will inspire future research as we begin to develop a more complete neurobiological model of sign language processing.

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Matching pictures and signs: An ERP study of the effects of iconic structural alignment in American sign language

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Picture naming test through the prism of cognitive neuroscience and linguistics: adapting the test for cerebellar tumor survivors—or pouring new wine in old sacks?

Picture naming test through the prism of cognitive neuroscience and linguistics: adapting the test for cerebellar tumor survivors—or pouring new wine in old sacks?

Taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in picture naming as revealed by Laplacian‐transformed event‐related potentials

New Perspectives on the Neurobiology of Sign Languages

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