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.
To better understand the modulation of stored word valence by speaker prosody, one may wish to examine the relationship between memory for prosody and word valence within a participant and within a given item.
The inferior-superior modulation of the N170 word-symbol difference fully generalized to pseudowords in the present study.
The metre of the poem, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and the sounds and modulations of the words themselves all affect the subtle meanings and feelings that the poet may be trying to convey or evoke.
Not surprisingly, explicit manipulation of each of these word characteristics also leads to modulation of activation within the word reading network (Carreiras et al., 2006, Hauk et al., 2008, Woollams et al., 2011).
We argued that differential modulation of brain activation by word frequency for action-related and visually related words supports the view that these brain activations reflect aspects of lexico-semantic processing, rather than mental imagery processes.
Intracranial recordings obtained while participants silently produced inflectional variants of visually presented words (as in walk → "walked"; Sahin et al. 2009) revealed modulation of electrophysiological responses related to word frequency in Broca's area at about 200 ms from word onset.
The early influence of words on left IFG activity has previously been reported (Pammer et al. 2004; Cornelissen et al. 2009; Wheat et al. 2010), but the influence of the left IFG on early left vOT activity is novel, as is the observation that this precedes the modulation of feedforward activity by words relative to false font stimuli.
Furthermore, the use of overt naming task restricted our analyses within a 0- to 300-ms window; however, it is possible that effects of the Word Form variable appear at later latencies, as suggested by modulation of electrophysiological responses induced by word length that Sahin et al. (2009) observed at about 450 ms in Broca's areas and left superior temporal regions.
The implication is that although grey and white matter may be integrated into the same functional network, their sensitivity to the modulation of specific processes involved in word production differs.
