Do you think signing uses a different hemisphere of the brain than spoken languages?
I saw research like this years ago. The sample were deaf (asl from birth) vs hearing folks. I'm not sure if there are followup studies on betweeners.
They have fMRI photos of the brain hemispheres used between speech and asl.
Thanks for your reply. I've been pondering the thought because there is lots of Alzheimer's in my Mom's side of the family and a bit on my Dad's side. It is scary, especially being 'on' with my Mom her last 5 years.
The good news is that I've never had a good short-term memory. lol I'm sure I would have flunked the Alzheimer's tests twenty years ago! I tried learning sign in classes in '88/'89 when my ears worked and did not make any headway at all.
Now that my hearing is limited and I practice ASL every single day, in addition to giving me a language to hopefully communicate with, I'm sure that learning ASL exercises more parts of my brain than just spoken english. So I was just wondering about it this morning.... exorcising the Alzheimer's demons. lol
I believe if you are right handed, the left side of your brain is where most(not all) parts of spoken language are processed. I am right handed and was an artist most of my life until eight years ago... I always needed to learn through my hands and body experientially - never was able to remember numbers, dates and other rote-memory facts. So I don't really understand why learning ASL through my hands is not happening more easily but I'm sure the challenge and constant practice/learning process of ASL is helping keep Alzheimer's away, at least a bit.
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All of those scans are mighty impressive, Lukin. I can't quite get my head around what it all means though. Thanks for posting!!!
This is a difficult one to comprehend...
For instance...
But if we directly observe ASL/hearing/hearing native sign users... Not sure about hearing subjects, they seem retarded lol
Uhh let me drink some wine
*drinks*
Brb for a refill.
But if we study how visual works in our brain, looks something like this:
I don't understand this one...
Interestingly there is the difference between ASL and LSQ users...
Therefore, from the evidence that I have posted so far, the conclusion is not possible at this moment, possibly at the expense of wasted spending on fictional sociopsychological hemisphere mapping.