Sign language narrative reveals universal and modality-specific features of cortical timescale hierarchy
Maria Zimmermann, Piotr Tomaszewski, Artur Marchewka, Marcin Szwed, Marina Bedny · 2026
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Description
Maria Zimmermann and others use signed tales to test brain tale ladders shared by all tongues in a 2026 brain-scan study. Spoken tales engage a brain time ladder from words to plots, but whether signs share that ladder was untested.
Twenty born signers watched a Polish Sign tale from Poe plus scrambled cuts during brain scans. Signed tales synced layered brain nets, with front-temple zones tracking sentence build and the default net tracking plot, as in speech. Top-side wall zones showed a sign-only long-time mark. The paper proves tale shape in the brain crosses tongue mode.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maria Zimmermann, Piotr Tomaszewski, Artur Marchewka, Marcin Szwed, Marina Bedny |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |