Enhanced performance on a sentence comprehension task in congenitally blind adults.
People born blind habitually experience linguistic utterances in the absence of visual cues. Neuroimaging evidence suggests that congenitally blind individuals also activate "visual" cortices during sentence comprehension. Do blind individuals show superior performance on sentence processing tasks?...
| Publicado en: | Language, Cognition & Neuroscience Vol. 35; no. 8; pp. 1010 - 1024 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2020
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