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@article{Newman2002ACP,
  title={A critical period for right hemisphere recruitment in American Sign Language processing},
  author={Aaron J. Newman and Daphn{\'e} Bavelier and David P. Corina and Peter Jezzard and Helen J. Neville},
  journal={Nature Neuroscience},
  year={2002},
  volume={5},
  pages={76-80},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2745545}
}

It is demonstrated that the RH angular gyrus is active during ASL processing only in native signers (hearing, ASL-English bilinguals) but not in those who acquired ASL after puberty ( hearing, native English speakers).

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