Initiatives & Projects

project 11 -- Neural correlates of cross-language lexical activation

ILM 2: Neural correlates of cross-language lexical activation in ASL-English Bilinguals (Morford, Hauser, Eden, Corina, Bavelier & Emmorey):

In a follow-up study to ILM 1, we seek to determine the neural level at which cross-lexical interferences arise. Specifically, do the phonological interference effects observed when ASL signers read English words arise in brain regions which support native ASL phonological sub-lexical processing, or are they mediated via other connections due to amodal semantic representations (or some as of yet unidentified association region)? We will use data from our other fMRI studies (VLAS 5 and VLAS 9) to define regions of interest (ROIs) that represent both modality dependant representation and amodal and or associative activations.

Related Initiatives:

Interlanguage Mapping, Bilingualism, and Literacy

The is material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number SBE-0541953. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.