Cerebral asymmetry in congenitally deaf subjects.
Congenitally deaf subjects exposed to tachistoscopic presentation of English words, British Sign Language (BSL) signs, manual letters stimuli and a non-verbal task showed a left hemisphere advantage for English words and signs, a right hemisphere advantage for manual letters and no field differences for the non-verbal task.
D003638:Deafness / Q000151:congenital* / Q000523:psychology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008369:Manual Communication; D012813:Sign Language; D014796:Visual Perception