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Figure 1: Summary of the findings of Neville et al.3 in imaging the areas of the brain activated when various subjects processed American Sign Language (ASL) or written English.

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  1. the Scientific Institute H. San Raffaele, INB-CNR, Universita di Milano, via Olgettina 60, 20132, Milan, Italy

    Eraldo Paulesu

  2. the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, CNRS et EHESS, 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75006, Paris, France

    Jacques Mehler

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Paulesu, E., Mehler, J. Right on in sign language. Nature 392, 233–234 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/32546

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