• Functional Neural Organization for Language

• Psycholinguistic Studies

• ASL Perception & Production: Evidence from Eye Tracking

• Relationships between Language & Cognition

• Bimodal Bilingualism

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Selected Presentations:

• Allen, J., Emmorey, K., Bruss, J., & Damasio, H. (2007). Do hearing status and sign language experience affect insula morphology? An MR volumetric analysis. Society for Neuroscience meeting, November, San Diego, California.

• Emmorey, K., Xu, J., Gannon, P., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Braun, A. (2007). Perception of pantomime, American Sign Language verbs, and nonsense signs by deaf signers and hearing non-signers. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May, New York. see poster

• Saygin, A., McCullough, S., Alac, M., & Emmorey, K. (2007). Sentences with motion semantics activate motion-sensitive visual areas in the human brain. Society for Neuroscience meeting, November, San Diego, California.

• Allen, J., Emmorey, K., Bruss, J., & Damasio, H. (2007). An MR Volumetric Study of the Motor Hand Region and Insula in Deaf, Hearing, and Hearing-Signing Individuals. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May, New York. see poster

• McCullough, S., & Emmorey, K. (2004). The neural systems underlying the recognition of linguistic and emotional facial expressions. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 8, October, Barcelona, Spain.

• Emmorey, K., & Grabowski, T. (2004). Neural organization for sign versus speech production. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April, San Francisco, CA.

• Pickell, B., Emmorey, K., Hickok, G., Klima, E., & Bellugi, U. (2002). Clues from American Sign Language: The role of the right occipital lobe in language. Academy of Aphasia meeting, October, New York, NY.