Previous Publications – The Signing Brain
- MacSweeney, M., & Emmorey, K. (2020). The neurobiology of sign language processing. In D. Poeppel, G. Mangun, and M. Gazzaniga (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences VI, pp. 851–858, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Click to request PDF
- Mott, M., Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., & Emmorey, K. (2020). Cross-modal translation priming and iconicity effects in deaf signers and hearing learners of American Sign Language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-13. PMCID: PMC pending https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728919000889
- Sehyr, Z.S., Midgley, K. J., Holcomb, P.J., Emmorey, K., Plaut, D. C., & Behrmann, M. (2020). Unique N170 asymmetries to visual words and faces reflect experience-specific adaptation in adult deaf ASL signers. Neuropsychologia, 141, 107414. PMCID: PMC7192317 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107414
- Vinson, D., Fox, N., Devlin, J.T., Emmorey, K., & Vigliocco, G. (2019). Transcranial magnetic stimulation during British Sign Language production reveals monitoring of discrete linguistic units in left superior parietal lobule. Unpublished Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1101/679340
- Lee, B., Meade, G., Midgley, K. J., Holcomb, P.J., & Emmorey, K. (2019). ERP evidence for co-activation of English words during recognition of American Sign Language signs. Brain Sciences, 9, 148.
- Meade, G., Lee, B., Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., & Emmorey, K. (2018). Phonological and semantic priming in American Sign Language: N300 and N400 effects. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(9), 1092-1106.
- Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Kastner, I., Emmorey, K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2018). Shared neural correlates for building phrases in signed and spoken language. Scientific Reports, 8:5492.
- Liu, L., Yan, X., Liu, J., Xia, M., Lu, C., Emmorey, K., Chu, M., & Ding, G. (2017). Graph theoretical analysis of functional network for comprehension of sign language. Brain research, 1671, 55-66. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., Mehta, S., McCullough, S., & Grabowski, T.G. (2016). The neural circuits recruited for the production of signs and fingerspelled words. Brain and Language, 160, 30-41.
- Li, L., Emmorey, K., Feng, X., Lu, C., & Ding, G. (2016). Functional connectivity reveals which language the “control regions” control during bilingual production. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 616.
- Weisberg, J., Hubbard, A.L., & Emmorey, K. (2016). Multimodal integration of spontaneously produced representational co-speech gestures: An fMRI study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., & Weisberg, J. (2015). Neural correlates of fingerspelling, text, and sign processing in deaf ASL-English bilinguals. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 30(6), 749-767. Click to request PDF
- Weisberg, J., McCullough, S., & Emmorey, K. (2015). Simultaneous perception of a spoken and a signed language: The brain basis of ASL-English code-blends. Brain and Language, 147, 96–106.
- Emmorey, K. (2015). The neurobiology of sign language. In A. Toga (Ed), Brain mapping: An encyclopedic reference, vol. 3, pp. 475-478, Oxford, England: Elsevier. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., & Özyurek, A. (2015). Language in our hands: Neural underpinnings of sign language and co-speech gesture. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences V., pp. 657–665, The MIT Press. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., Mehta, S., & Grabowski, T. J. (2014). How sensory-motor systems impact the neural organization for language: Direct contrasts between spoken and signed language. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(484)
- Emmorey, K. (2013). The neurobiology of sign language and the mirror system hypothesis. Language and Cognition, 5(2–3), 205-210.
- Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., Mehta, S., Ponto, L.L.B., & Grabowski, T.J. (2013). The biology of linguistic expression correlates for spatial language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(4), 517-533. Click to request PDF
- Allen, J.S., Emmorey, K., Bruss, J., & Damasio,H. (2013). Neuroanatomical differences in visual, motor, and language cortices between congenitally deaf signers, hearing signers, and hearing non-signers. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 7, 1-10.
- Poeppel, D., Emmorey, K., Hickok, G., & Pylkkänen, L. (2012). Towards a new neurobiology of language. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(41), 14125-14131.
- McCullough, S., Saygin, A.P., Korpics, F., & Emmorey, K. (2012). Motion-sensitive cortex and motion semantics in American Sign Langauge. NeuroImage, 63, 111-118.
- Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., Mehta,S., & Grabowski, T. (2011). Sign language and pantomime production differentially engage frontal and parietal cortices.Language and Cognitive Processes, 26(7), 878-901.
- Emmorey, K., Xu, J., & Braun, A. (2011). Neural responses to meaningless pseudosigns: Evidence for sign-based phonetic processing in superior temporal cortex. Brain and Language, 117, 34-38.
- Saygin, A., McCullough, S., Alac, M., & Emmorey, K. (2010). Modulation of BOLD response in motion sensitive lateral temporal cortex by real and fictive motion sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(11), 2480-2490. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., Xu, J., Gannon, P., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Braun, A. (2010). CNS activation and regional connectivity during pantomime observation: No engagement of the mirror neuron system for deaf signers. Neuroimage, 49, 994-1005.
- Xu, J., Gannon, P., Emmorey, K., Smith, J.F., Braun, A. R. (2009). Symbolic gestures and spoken language are processed by a common neural system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(49), 20664-20669.
- Emmorey, K & McCullough, S. (2009). The bilingual brain: Effects of sign language experience. Brain and Language, 109, 124-132.
- McCullough, S., & Emmorey, K. (2009). Categorical perception of affective and linguistic facial expressions. Cognition, 110, 208-221.
- Allen, J.S., Emmorey, K., Bruss, J., & Damasio, H. (2008). Morphology of the insula in relation to hearing status and sign language experience. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28(46), 11900-1905.
- Emmorey, K., Mehta, S., & Grabowski, T.J. (2007). The neural correlates of sign versus word production. NeuroImage, 36, 202-208.
- Emmorey, K. (2006). The signer as an embodied mirror neuron system: Neural mechanisms underlying sign language and action. In M. A. Arbib (Ed). Action to language via the mirror neuron system, pp. 103-135, Cambridge University Press. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2006). The role of Broca’s area in sign language. In Y. Grodzinsky & K. Amunts (Eds), Broca’s Region, pp. 167-182. Oxford University Press. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., Grabowski, TJ., McCullough, S., Ponto, L., Hichwa, R., & Damasio, H. (2005). The neural correlates of spatial language in English and American Sign Language: A PET study with hearing bilinguals. NeuroImage, 24, 832-840. Click to request PDF
- McCullough, S., Emmorey, K., & Sereno, M. I. (2005). Neural organization for recognition of grammatical and emotional facial expressions in deaf ASL signers and hearing nonsigners. Cognitive Brain Research, 22, 193-203. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., Grabowski, T., McCullough, S., Damasio, H, Ponto, L, Hichwa, R., & Bellugi, U. (2004). Motor-iconicity of sign language does not alter the neural systems underlying tool and action naming. Brain and Language, 89(1), 27-37. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., Allen, J. S., Bruss, J., Schenker, N., & Damasio, H. (2003). A morphometric analysis of auditory brain regions in congenitally deaf adults.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(17), 10049-10054.
- Emmorey, K., Grabowski, T., McCullough, S., Damasio, H, Ponto, L, Hichwa, R., & Bellugi, U. (2003). Neural systems underlying lexical retrieval for sign language.Neuropsychologia, 41(1), 85-95. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2003). The neural systems underlying sign language. In M. Marschark & P. Spencer (Eds.). The Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education, pp. 361-375, Oxford University Press.
- Emmorey, K., Damasio, H, McCullough, Grabowski, T., Ponto, L., Hichwa, R., & Bellugi, U. (2002). Neural systems underlying spatial language in American Sign Language. NeuroImage, 17, 812-824. Click to request PDF
- Neville, H., Coffey, S., Lawson, D., Fischer, A., Emmorey, K., & Bellugi, U. (1997).Neural systems mediating American Sign Language, Brain and Language, 57, 285-308.
- Emmorey, K. & Kosslyn, S. (1996). Enhanced image generation abilities in deaf signers: A right hemisphere effect. Brain and Cognition, 32, 28-44. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. & Corina, D. (1993). Hemispheric specialization for ASL signs and English words: Differences between imageable and abstract forms.Neuropsychologia, 31(7), 645 – 654. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (1987) The neurological substrates for prosodic aspects of speech.Brain and Language, 30(2): 305-320.
