Cross-Modal Recruitment of Auditory and Orofacial Areas During Sign Language in a Deaf Subject

• Published in: World neurosurgery Vol. 105; pp. 1033.e1 - 1033.e5
• Main Authors: Martino, Juan, Velasquez, Carlos, Vázquez-Bourgon, Javier, de Lucas, Enrique Marco, Gomez, Elsa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2017
• Subjects: Brain Mapping; Brain Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Brain Neoplasms - surgery; Brain plasticity; Cerebral Cortex - diagnostic imaging; Cerebral Cortex - pathology; Deaf; Deafness - diagnostic imaging; Deafness - pathology; Deafness - physiopathology; Electroencephalography; Female; Glioma - diagnostic imaging; Glioma - surgery; Humans; Insula; Intraoperative electrical stimulation; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Middle Aged; Neural Pathways - diagnostic imaging; Neurosurgery; Sign Language; Sign language; Insula; Brain plasticity; Intraoperative electrical stimulation; Deaf; mm; milliseconds; millimeters; deaf; insula; milliamperes; sign language; mA; msec; FLAIR; fluid-attenuated inversion recovery
• ISSN: 1878-8750; 1878-8769; 1878-8769
• DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.05.170

Modern sign languages used by deaf people are fully expressive, natural human languages that are perceived visually and produced manually. The literature contains little data concerning human brain organization in conditions of deficient sensory information such as deafness. A deaf-mute patient unde...