Embodied theories of grounded semantics postulate that, when word meaning is first acquired, a link established between symbol (word form) and corresponding semantic information present in modality-specific—including primary—sensorimotor cortices the brain. Direct experimental evidence documenting emergence such (i.e., showing that presentation previously unknown, meaningless sound induces, aft...

OBJECTIVES Intonation may serve as a cue for facilitated recognition and processing of spoken words and it has been suggested that the pitch contour of spoken words is implicitly remembered. Thus, using the repetition suppression (RS) effect of BOLD-fMRI signals, we tested whether the same spoken words are differentially processed in language and auditory brain areas depending on whether or not...

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When compared to suffixes, prefixes possess several distinctive but largely unexplained properties. This paper explores the idea that these properties might arise from a common source, namely discontinuous recognition of spoken prefixed words, in which listeners ‘skip’ to that portion of the speech stream which contains the root. If this occurs, listeners could potentially perceive prefixes ver...