Examination of Deficits in Individuals Who Have Acquired Brain Damage

Multiple Choice

Examination of deficits in individuals who have acquired brain damage and speak American Sign Language, a visual language, suggests that:

A) The brain regions that process visual language are totally unrelated to those that do so for oral/spoken languages.
B) The brain organization for visual language is highly similar to that of oral/spoken except that visual languages involves more regions of the right hemisphere.
C) The brain regions that process visual language are identical to those for oral/spoken language except that all processing is performed by the right hemisphere rather than the left.
D) The brain regions that process visual language is reversed anterior/posterior from oral language with anterior regions being involved in comprehension and posterior areas being involved in production.