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- PhD Psychology University of California, San Diego
- Masters Psychology University of California, San Diego
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karen Denise Emmorey is a linguist and cognitive neuroscientist known for her research on the neuroscience of sign language and what sign languages reveal about the brain and human languages more generally. Emmorey holds the position of Distinguished Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University, where she directs the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience.
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Published Works
- Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights From Sign Language Research (2001) (589)
- The Source of Enhanced Cognitive Control in Bilinguals (2008) (305)
- Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages (2003) (283)
- Symbolic gestures and spoken language are processed by a common neural system (2009) (247)
- Neural Systems Mediating American Sign Language: Effects of Sensory Experience and Age of Acquisition (1997) (245)
- Towards a New Neurobiology of Language (2012) (227)
- Visual imagery and visual-spatial language: Enhanced imagery abilities in deaf and hearing ASL signers (1993) (225)
- Familiar voice recognition: Patterns and parameters. Part I. Recognition of backward voices (1985) (220)
- A morphometric analysis of auditory brain regions in congenitally deaf adults (2003) (202)
- Language, Gesture, and Space. (1996) (176)
- Lexical Recognition in Sign Language: Effects of Phonetic Structure and Morphology (1990) (171)
- Modulation of BOLD Response in Motion-sensitive Lateral Temporal Cortex by Real and Fictive Motion Sentences (2010) (159)
- A visuospatial “phonological loop” in working memory: Evidence from American Sign Language (1997) (157)
- Using space to describe space: Perspective in speech, sign, and gesture (2000) (147)
- Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages (2018) (145)
- Bimodal bilingualism. (2008) (140)
- Neural Systems Underlying Spatial Language in American Sign Language (2002) (140)
- The neurological substrates for prosodic aspects of speech (1987) (139)
- ASL-LEX: A lexical database of American Sign Language (2017) (131)
- Synchronization to auditory and visual rhythms in hearing and deaf individuals (2015) (127)
- The neural correlates of sign versus word production (2007) (127)
- Do signers gesture (1999) (123)
- Face processing by deaf ASL signers: evidence for expertise in distinguished local features. (1997) (123)
- Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: The mental lexicon (1988) (119)
- Evidence from an emerging sign language reveals that language supports spatial cognition (2010) (117)
- Eye gaze during comprehension of American Sign Language by native and beginning signers. (2009) (116)
- Iconicity as structure mapping (2014) (110)
- A “word length effect”for sign language: Further evidence for the role of language in structuring working memory (1998) (110)
- Mental rotation within linguistic and non-linguistic domains in users of American sign language (1998) (108)
- Categorical perception in American Sign Language (2003) (100)
- Neural organization for recognition of grammatical and emotional facial expressions in deaf ASL signers and hearing nonsigners. (2005) (97)
- Effects of age of acquisition on grammatical sensitivity: Evidence from on-line and off-line tasks (1995) (95)
- “Tip of the Fingers” Experiences by Deaf Signers (2005) (91)
- The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure by Carol Neidle et al. (2000) (91)
- When does iconicity in sign language matter? (2013) (90)
- Auditory morphological priming in the lexicon (1989) (90)
- The bimodal bilingual brain: Effects of sign language experience (2009) (85)
- Gesture, Thought, and Spatial Language (2001) (84)
- Enhanced Facial Diserimination: Effects of Experience With American Sign Language (1997) (81)
- Working memory for sign language: a window into the architecture of the working memory system. (1997) (79)
- Effects of iconicity and semantic relatedness on lexical access in american sign language. (2010) (76)
- The neural correlates of spatial language in English and American Sign Language: a PET study with hearing bilinguals (2005) (75)
- Neural systems underlying lexical retrieval for sign language (2003) (74)
- Enhanced Image Generation Abilities in Deaf Signers: A Right Hemisphere Effect (1996) (74)
- Enhanced facial discrimination: effects of experience with American sign language. (1997) (73)
- Parallel language activation and inhibitory control in bimodal bilinguals (2015) (72)
- 10 Categorical Versus Gradient Properties of Classifier Constructions in ASL (2003) (70)
- CNS activation and regional connectivity during pantomime observation: No engagement of the mirror neuron system for deaf signers (2010) (69)
- Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural implications of bimodal bilingualism* (2015) (69)
- The Relationship between Eye Gaze and Verb Agreement in American Sign Language: An Eye-tracking Study (2006) (67)
- Co-speech gesture in bimodal bilinguals (2009) (65)
- Bimodal bilinguals reveal the source of tip-of-the-tongue states (2009) (64)
- Bimodal Bilingualism : Code-blending between Spoken English and American Sign Language (2004) (64)
- Motor-iconicity of sign language does not alter the neural systems underlying tool and action naming (2004) (60)
- How sensory-motor systems impact the neural organization for language: direct contrasts between spoken and signed language (2014) (60)
- Language switching decomposed through MEG and evidence from bimodal bilinguals (2018) (60)
- Morphology of the Insula in Relation to Hearing Status and Sign Language Experience (2008) (59)
- Bilingual processing of ASL-English code-blends: The consequences of accessing two lexical representations simultaneously. (2012) (58)
- The Face of Bimodal Bilingualism (2008) (55)
- Implicit co-activation of American Sign Language in deaf readers: An ERP study (2017) (53)
- Mapping the reading circuitry for skilled deaf readers: An fMRI study of semantic and phonological processing (2013) (52)
- The effect of irrelevant visual input on working memory for sign language. (2003) (49)
- Repetition priming with aspect and agreement morphology in American Sign Language (1991) (47)
- Neuroanatomical differences in visual, motor, and language cortices between congenitally deaf signers, hearing signers, and hearing non-signers (2013) (47)
- Language co-activation and lexical selection in bimodal bilinguals: Evidence from picture–word interference* (2015) (47)
- Categorical perception of affective and linguistic facial expressions (2009) (47)
- Comparing Sign Language and Speech Reveals a Universal Limit on Short-Term Memory Capacity (2006) (44)
- Relationship between Semivowels and Vowels: Cross-Linguistic Investigations of Acoustic Difference and Coarticulation (1985) (44)
- Visual feedback and self-monitoring of sign language. (2009) (44)
- Neural responses to meaningless pseudosigns: Evidence for sign-based phonetic processing in superior temporal cortex (2011) (42)
- Processing orthographic structure: associations between print and fingerspelling. (2012) (37)
- Laughter among deaf signers. (2006) (37)
- Processing a dynamic visual—Spatial language: Psycholinguistic studies of American Sign Language (1993) (37)
- A Pilot Study of the Expressive Gestures Used by Classical Orchestra Conductors: Penny Boyes Braem and Thüring Bräm (2013) (37)
- The Biology of Linguistic Expression Impacts Neural Correlates for Spatial Language (2013) (34)
- Bimodal bilingualism and the frequency-lag hypothesis. (2013) (33)
- The relation between working memory and language comprehension in signers and speakers. (2017) (33)
- The neural circuits recruited for the production of signs and fingerspelled words (2016) (33)
- Viewpoint in the Visual-Spatial Modality: The Coordination of Spatial Perspective (2015) (31)
- The puzzle of working memory for sign language (2004) (31)
- Direction asymmetries in spoken and signed language interpreting* (2012) (30)
- The N170 ERP component differs in laterality, distribution, and association with continuous reading measures for deaf and hearing readers (2017) (30)
- Differential Processing of Topographic and Referential Functions of Space (2013) (29)
- Sensitivity to inflectional morphology in aphasia: A real-time processing perspective (1992) (28)
- Shared neural correlates for building phrases in signed and spoken language (2018) (27)
- How bilingualism protects the brain from aging: Insights from bimodal bilinguals (2017) (27)
- American Sign Language Comprehension Test: A Tool for Sign Language Researchers. (2016) (27)
- Hemispheric specialization for ASL signs and english words: Differences between imageable and abstract forms (1993) (27)
- The psycholinguistics of signed and spoken languages: how biology affects processing (2007) (27)
- Conceptual Locations and Pronominal Reference in American Sign Language (2004) (27)
- The ASL-LEX 2.0 Project: A Database of Lexical and Phonological Properties for 2,723 Signs in American Sign Language (2021) (26)
- The activation of spatial antecedents from overt pronouns in american sign language (1991) (25)
- ERP Evidence for Co-Activation of English Words during Recognition of American Sign Language Signs (2019) (25)
- The perceived mapping between form and meaning in American Sign Language depends on linguistic knowledge and task: evidence from iconicity and transparency judgments (2019) (24)
- Processing spatial anaphora: Referent reactivation with overt and null pronouns in american sign language (1995) (24)
- Sign language and pantomime production differentially engage frontal and parietal cortices (2011) (23)
- Motion-sensitive cortex and motion semantics in American Sign Language (2012) (23)
- Neural correlates of fingerspelling, text, and sign processing in deaf American Sign Language–English bilinguals (2015) (23)
- The effects of modality on spatial language: How signers and speakers talk about space (2002) (22)
- The use of visual feedback during signing: evidence from signers with impaired vision. (2009) (22)
- From sublexical facilitation to lexical competition: ERP effects of masked neighbor priming (2018) (21)
- The influence of visual feedback and register changes on sign language production: A kinematic study with deaf signers. (2009) (21)
- The effects of learning American Sign Language on co-speech gesture(). (2012) (21)
- A Lexical Comparison of Sign Languages in the Arab World (2008) (21)
- No Difference in Short-Term Memory Span Between Sign and Speech (2006) (21)
- Spatial perspective choice in ASL (2002) (21)
- Learning to look: The acquisition of eye gaze agreement during the production of ASL verbs* (2009) (18)
- Bimodal bilingualism* (2008) (18)
- Fingerspelled and Printed Words Are Recoded into a Speech-based Code in Short-term Memory. (2017) (18)
- When does modality matter? Evidence from ASL on the nature of working memory. (2000) (18)
- Is There a Valid Distinction between Voiceless Lateral Approximants and Fricatives? (1984) (18)
- Representational momentum for the human body: Awkwardness matters, experience does not (2010) (17)
- The neural underpinnings of reading skill in deaf adults (2016) (16)
- Orthographic and phonological selectivity across the reading system in deaf skilled readers (2018) (16)
- The Role of Broca’s Area in Sign Language (2006) (16)
- Non-antecedent Suppression in American Sign Language (1997) (15)
- Directionality in ASL-English interpreting: Accuracy and articulation quality in L1 and L2. (2015) (15)
- Language in our hands: Neural underpinnings of sign language and co-speech gesture (2014) (15)
- Brain-based individual difference measures of reading skill in deaf and hearing adults (2017) (14)
- Phonological and semantic priming in American Sign Language: N300 and N400 effects (2018) (14)
- Simultaneous perception of a spoken and a signed language: The brain basis of ASL-English code-blends (2015) (14)
- Search for the Missing Link: The Development of Skilled Reading in Deaf Children: Carol A.Padden and Vicki L.Hanson (2013) (13)
- On the Connection Between Language Control and Executive Control—An ERP Study (2021) (13)
- The Neurobiology of Sign Language (2015) (13)
- Evidence for a bimodal bilingual disadvantage in letter fluency. (2017) (13)
- Cross-modal translation priming and iconicity effects in deaf signers and hearing learners of American Sign Language (2020) (12)
- ERP Effects of masked orthographic neighbour priming in deaf readers (2019) (12)
- Sign languages are problematic for a gestural origins theory of language evolution (2005) (12)
- Turning languages on and off: Switching into and out of code-blends reveals the nature of bilingual language control. (2020) (12)
- Neurophysiological Correlates of Frequency, Concreteness, and Iconicity in American Sign Language (2020) (12)
- Graph theoretical analysis of functional network for comprehension of sign language (2017) (11)
- Multimodal integration of spontaneously produced representational co-speech gestures: an fMRI study (2017) (10)
- The Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect in ASL: the role of semantics vs. perception* (2014) (10)
- The neurocognitive basis of skilled reading in prelingually and profoundly deaf adults (2021) (10)
- Comparing Semantic Fluency in American Sign Language and English. (2018) (10)
- Visual Statistical Learning With Stimuli Presented Sequentially Across Space and Time in Deaf and Hearing Adults (2018) (10)
- Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in hearing late learners of sign language (2020) (9)
- Perspectives on classifer constructions in sign language (2003) (9)
- The signer as an embodied mirror neuron system: neural mechanisms underlying sign language and action (2006) (9)
- An ERP investigation of orthographic precision in deaf and hearing readers (2020) (9)
- The neurobiology of sign language and the mirror system hypothesis (2013) (8)
- A theory-driven model of handshape similarity* (2017) (8)
- A Comparison of Spatial Language in English & American Sign Language (2013) (8)
- Visual-Spatial Perspective-Taking in Spatial Scenes and in American Sign Language. (2020) (8)
- The role of the superior parietal lobule in lexical processing of sign language: Insights from fMRI and TMS (2020) (7)
- Functional Connectivity Reveals Which Language the “Control Regions” Control during Bilingual Production (2016) (7)
- Gesture Helps, Only If You Need It: Inhibiting Gesture Reduces Tip-of-the-Tongue Resolution for Those With Weak Short-Term Memory (2021) (7)
- Second language acquisition of American Sign Language influences co-speech gesture production (2019) (7)
- Unique N170 signatures to words and faces in deaf ASL signers reflect experience-specific adaptations during early visual processing (2020) (7)
- A data-driven approach to the semantics of iconicity in American Sign Language and English (2020) (7)
- Lexical selection in bimodal bilinguals: ERP evidence from picture-word interference (2020) (7)
- The Neural Systems Underlying Sign Language (2011) (7)
- The discourse of thought-disordered schizophrenic children (1985) (7)
- Social Abilities and Visual-Spatial Perspective-Taking Skill: Deaf Signers and Hearing Nonsigners. (2019) (6)
- Effects of deafness and sign language experience on the human brain: voxel-based and surface-based morphometry (2020) (6)
- The eyes don’t point: Understanding language universals through person marking in American Signed Language (2013) (6)
- The organization of the American Sign Language lexicon: Comparing one- and two-parameter ERP phonological priming effects across tasks (2021) (6)
- Conceptual Locations and Pronominal Reference in (2004) (6)
- Picture-naming in American Sign Language: an electrophysiological study of the effects of iconicity and structured alignment (2020) (6)
- As línguas de bilíngues bimodais (2017) (6)
- Assessing the Comprehension of Spatial Perspectives in ASL Classifier Constructions. (2019) (6)
- Language control in bimodal bilinguals: Evidence from ERPs (2021) (5)
- Morphological structure and parsing in the lexicon (1987) (5)
- The Structure of Language as Motor Behavior: Clues From Signers With Parkinson’s Disease: Howard Poizner, Diane Brentari, Martha E.Tyrone, and Judy Kegl (2013) (5)
- Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages (2016) (5)
- Pre-output Language Monitoring in Sign Production (2020) (5)
- Contribution of Lexical Quality and Sign Language Variables to Reading Comprehension. (2022) (4)
- The signed mental lexicon: Effects of phonological neighborhood density, iconicity, and childhood language experience (2021) (4)
- Talking about Space with Space: Describing Environments in ASL (2018) (4)
- The effects of multiple linguistic variables on picture naming in American Sign Language (2021) (4)
- Erratum to: A visuospatial “phonological loop” in working memory: Evidence from American sign language (1998) (4)
- Theoretical Issues Relating Language, Gesture, and Space: An Overview (2013) (4)
- Referring strategies in American Sign Language and English (with co-speech gesture): The role of modality in referring to non-nameable objects (2018) (4)
- Variation in late L1 acquisition? (2018) (3)
- Matching pictures and signs: An ERP study of the effects of iconic structural alignment in American sign language (2021) (3)
- Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution (review) (2004) (3)
- Are form priming effects phonological or perceptual? Electrophysiological evidence from American Sign Language (2021) (3)
- Shadowing in the manual modality. (2020) (3)
- Masked ERP repetition priming in deaf and hearing readers (2021) (3)
- Iconicity in sign language (2018) (2)
- Semantic Integration and Age of Acquisition Effects in Code-Blend Comprehension. (2016) (2)
- Language: Do Bilinguals Think Differently in Each Language? (2019) (2)
- Code-blending with depicting signs. (2020) (2)
- Tracking the time course of sign recognition using ERP repetition priming. (2021) (2)
- New Perspectives on the Neurobiology of Sign Languages (2021) (2)
- Recognition of famous voices forwards and backwards (1983) (2)
- Cross‐linguistic issues in the relationship between semivowels and vowels (1985) (2)
- How to distinguish gesture from sign: New technology is not the answer (2017) (2)
- The Neurobiology of Reading Differs for Deaf and Hearing Adults (2020) (2)
- The neural correlates for spatial language: Perspective-dependent and -independent relationships in American Sign Language and spoken English (2021) (1)
- Referring strategies in American Sign Language and English (with co-speech gesture): The role of modality in referring to non-nameable objects—ERRATUM (2018) (1)
- Environmentally-Coupled Signs and Gestures (2021) (1)
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation during British Sign Language production reveals monitoring of discrete linguistic units in left superior parietal lobule (2019) (1)
- Brain Systems for Action Perception in Understanding Co-Speech Gesture And Signed Languages. (2015) (1)
- Insights from bimodal bilingualism: Reply to commentaries (2015) (1)
- Experimental approaches to studying visible meaning (2018) (1)
- Sign Language Acquisition (2001) (1)
- Attentional Resources and Working Memory: A New Framework for the Study of the Impact of Deafness on Cognition: Patricia Siple (2013) (1)
- How (and why) does iconicity effect lexical access: An electrophysiological study of American sign language (2023) (0)
- Special Section on Multimodal Multilingual Development of DHH Learners. (2017) (0)
- Early and Late in Language Acquisition: Aspects of the Syntax and Acquisition of Wh-Questions in American Sign Language: Diane Lillo-Martin (2013) (0)
- Recognition of famous voices given excerpted vowels, words, and 2‐s texts (1983) (0)
- Visual Word Form Area Semantic > False Font Phonological > False Font (2011) (0)
- Books received (2011) (0)
- Ursula Bellugi: Groundbreaking language scientist (1931–2022) (2022) (0)
- Cross-linguistic metaphor priming in ASL-English bilinguals: Effects of the Double Mapping Constraint. (2020) (0)
- Emmorey_Nicodemus_OGrady_Lang_of_Perception_ASL_Chapter (2019) (0)
- How sign languages borrow from spoken languages. (2003) (0)
- Sensitivity to orthographic vs. phonological constraints on word recognition: An ERP study with deaf and hearing readers (2022) (0)
- Using transitional information in sign and gesture perception. (2023) (0)
- Sign Language: How the Brain Represents Phonology without Sound (2020) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 41, 1984 (1984) (0)
- Shared neural correlates for building phrases in signed and spoken language (2018) (0)
- Teaching & Learning Guide for: The neurocognitive basis of skilled reading in prelingually and profoundly deaf adults (2021) (0)
- The iconic motivation for the morphophonological distinction between noun–verb pairs in American Sign Language does not reflect common human construals of objects and actions (2022) (0)
- Electrophysiological patterns of visual word recognition in deaf and hearing readers: an ERP mega-study (2022) (0)
- Viewing Deaf Children in a New Way: Implications of Bellugi and Klima’s Research for Education: Jeffrey G.Bettger (2013) (0)
- Title: The neurobiology of reading in deaf and hearing adults (2018) (0)
- Bellugi, Ursula, 139 Berent, Iris, 203 (1993) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 42, 1985 (1985) (0)
- Psycholinguistic Studies of Sign Perception, Online Processing, and Production (2001) (0)
- SLHS 150 Sign Languages & Deaf Culture (2017) (0)
- Janet Cohen Sherman (massachusetts general hospital) and Barbara lust (cornell university) children are in control (1993) (0)
- A eory-DrivenModel of Handshape Similarity * (2017) (0)
- Language evolving: Genes and culture in ongoing language evolution [Seminar] (2013) (0)
- FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS : NEUROCOGNITIVE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES PREDICT EFFECTS OF ATTENTION BIAS MODIFICATION TRAINING (2015) (0)
- ASL-LEX: A lexical database of American Sign Language (2016) (0)
- Is there an amodal “semantic” area in the left posterior temporal lobe? (2018) (0)
- Asymmetric ERP priming effects between English letters and American Sign Language fingerspelling fonts (2023) (0)
- Neurophysiological correlates of lexical access in American Sign Language (2012) (0)
- Gesture Models (2007) (0)
- Direction asymmetries in spoken and signed language (2015) (0)
- Emmorey_Reading_Chapter_2020 (2020) (0)
- Iconicity impacts linguistic processes : metaphor and anaphora ( a ) Iconic constraints on metaphorical extensions (2014) (0)
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