This article was originally published in the 2022 magazine of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD) Being a researcher who studies the brain, I’m frequently asked whether the brains of deaf and hearing people are the same. To answer this fully would take a whole book, but in a nutshell, the overall … More Cognition, language and the brain of deaf individuals
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The workshop “Neural Plasticity: Insights from Deafness and Language”, organised by Prof. Bencie Woll and Dr. Velia Cardin, took place on 3rd and 4th June, 2016, at the Wellcome Collection in Central London … More Neural Plasticity Workshop
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