While Observing People Drinking from a Cup or Using ASL

question 134

Multiple Choice

 While observing people drinking from a cup or using ASL,

• A) deaf participants who use ASL showed the same brain activity while processing all forms of movement, whereas hearing participants showed different patterns of activity for linguistic and nonlinguistic movement.
• B) deaf participants who use ASL showed different patterns of brain activity for linguistic and nonlinguistic movement, whereas hearing participants showed the same activity while processing all movement.
• C) both deaf and hearing participants showed the same brain activity while processing all movement.
• D) both deaf and hearing participants showed different patterns of brain activity for linguistic and nonlinguistic movement.

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