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Different repetition conditions were defined 1 – weak repetition, 2 – massive repetition and 3 – massive repetition with font alternation.
The results obtained for the weak repetition condition indicated that the N170 was not directly modulated by the word frequency.
All were unused in weak repetition condition but were chosen to match to the characteristics of the lists.
The first repetition modality consisted in the presentation of lists of frequent words, infrequent words and pseudowords presented only twice (weak repetition).
For each participant, 20 frequent words, 20 infrequent words and 20 pseudowords were randomly selected among lists of 50 stimuli of the weak repetition condition.
We obtained a strong frequency effect in the case of weak repetition, frequent words eliciting faster RTs than infrequent ones (mean difference = 77 ms).
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For the weak repetitions condition, lists of 50 frequent words, 50 infrequent words and 50 pseudowords were constituted.
The 50 pseudowords used for weak repetitions conditions were matched with word's lists for syllables and number of letters.
The stimuli consisted of frequent words, infrequent words and pseudowords presented according to three conditions: 1 – weak repetitions, 2 – massively repeated items and 3 – massively repeated items with different fonts.
The pSTS shows a strong reactivation effect for the Aud:Vis condition only (it also shows weak Aud Aud repetition suppression effect that does not survive the P < 0.001 whole-brain significance threshold).
An implication of this hypothesis is that repetition of the weaker task becomes, paradoxically, the default voluntary choice when choosing between tasks that differ in relative strength.
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