TOM ALLEN: "We're not dealing with representations in the brain which are primarily auditory. You know, people when they read, they kind of hear -- there's a silent hearing going on, when a hearing person reads a word.
When a deaf person reads a word, there's not. They see the word and there's some kind of an orthographic representation. And some of the research in our center has shown that when deaf readers read an English word, it activates their sign representations of those words."
当普通人在阅读时，他们一定程度上也在听---当听力正常的人在阅读单词时，有一个无声的听觉过程在进行
艾伦：“手语使用者不是在处理听觉在大脑中的呈现。但当一名聋人在阅读时，没有这个过程。当他们看到单词时，某种正字法在脑中呈现。我们中心的一些研究证实，当聋人阅读一个英语单词时，会激活代表这个单词的手势。”