Reading ability in both deaf and hearing adults is linked to neural representations of abstract phonology derived from visual speech
Samuel Evans, Cathy J. Price, Jörn Diedrichsen, Tae Twomey, Indie Beedie, Maggie R Fraser, Mairéad MacSweeney
The paper shows that reading ability in deaf and hearing adults is linked to shared neural representations of abstract phonology from visual speech and other language forms in the superior and middle temporal cortex.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · May 26, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience