• Functional Neural Organization for Language

• Psycholinguistic Studies

• ASL Perception & Production: Evidence from Eye Tracking

• Relationships between Language & Cognition

• Bimodal Bilingualism

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Further Publications:

• Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (2001). Functional consequences of modality: Spatial coding in working memory for signs. In V. Dively, M. Metzger, S. Taub, & A. M. Baer (Eds.), Sign Languages: Discoveries from international research, pp. 91-99, Gallaudet University Press: Washington, D.C.

• Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (2000). When does modality matter? Evidence from ASL on the nature of working memory. In K. Emmorey & H. Lane (Eds.), The signs of language revisited: An anthology to honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, 135-142, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, NJ.

• Emmorey, K. (1998). The impact of sign language use on visual-spatial cognition. In M. Marschark & D. Clark (Eds.), Psychological Perspectives on Deafness. (pp. 19-52) Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates: New Jersey.

• Wilson, M., & Emmorey, K. (1998). A "word length effect" for sign language: Further evidence on the role of language in structuring working memory. Memory and Cognition, 26(3), 584-590. read

• Bettger, J. G., Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., & Bellugi, U. (1997). Enhanced facial discrimination: Effects of experience with American Sign Language. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2(4), 223-233. Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (1997). Working memory for sign language: A window into the architecture of working memory. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2(3), 123-132.

• Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (1997). A visual-spatial "phonological loop" in working memory: Evidence from American Sign Language. Memory and Cognition, 25(3), 313-320.

• Emmorey, K. (1996). The confluence of space and language in signed languages. In P. Bloom, M. Peterson, L. Nadel, & M. Garrett (Eds). Language and Space, pp. 171-209, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Emmorey, K. & Kosslyn, S. (1996). Enhanced image generation abilities in deaf signers: A right hemisphere effect. Brain and Cognition, 32, 28-44. read

• Emmorey, K. (1994). Sign Language: A window into the brain, language, and cognition. In S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. Vol. 4, pp. 193-204, Academic Press: San Diego. Reprinted in (1998) in V. Clark, P. A. Eschholz, & A. P. Rosa (Eds.), Language: Readings in language and culture. New York: St. Martin's Press.