Classic brain-language models predict no influence of motor cortex TMS on single word comprehension, whereas action-perception theory of language suggests a modulation of language comprehension performance specific to phonological word type and specific to TMS locus.
Anterior IFG possesses direct white matter connections with anterior STC (Anwander et al., 2006) and has a widely-acknowledged role in 'top-down' modulation of language comprehension processes (Thompson-Schill et al., 1997; Wagner et al., 2001), including the facilitation of context-dependent selection and integration of word meaning (Swaab et al., 1998; Bedny et al., 2007).
Future work will investigate differences between action-sentence context and verb-inherent semantics regarding the modulation of language-induced motor effects.
The channel's slant is also apparent in tiny modulations of language.
Thus, histone reader mediated modulation of epigenetic language could play a significant role in retinoid based therapeutic strategy which is well exploited to combat tumor growth.
While this study provide a clear evidence for a specific modulation of action language on M1 activity, the use of a passive task and, therefore, the lack of an online measure of the participants' performance, make it difficult to establish what sort of processing they have been actually performing, when M1 was stimulated.
For as written accounts, the creation myths alert us as to how deeply and profoundly the ancient mind was aroused by, and became cognitively fluent in, the observations in nature of the minute gradations of form that can be imitated through the expert modulation of words and images, and from there commandeered into a literal and theoretical language of analogy.
This pattern, in which the MTG, and not the left IFG, is activated for the processing of normal sentences, has been reported in previous studies (Friederici et al., 2000, 2003; Crinion et al., 2006) and reflects the modulation of the frontotemporal language system as a function of different linguistic variables.
If a lesion impairs the functionality of neuronal circuits contributing to language, such modulation of neuronal functionality can have a beneficial effect on language performance (Albert, Bachman, Morgan, & Helm-Estabrooks, 1988; Berthier, 2005; Shisler, Baylis, & Frank, 2000).
Sperber and Wilson maintain that metaphor is just an especially dramatic instance of processes of content modulation at work throughout the interpretation of language, involving no distinctive principles of its own.
The induced electrical field is able to transiently modulate cortical neuronal activation, and, when applied during an object naming task, this neuronal modulation can cause transient, audibly detectable impairment of language [ 4, 8].
