As words are initially processed, their various representations in long-term memory are activated.
Then various items "raise their hands," that is, are activated.
Phonetic perceptual identification by nativeand second-language speakers differentially activates brain regions involved with acoustic phonetic processing and those involved with articulatory-auditory/orosensory internal models.
In most accounts, activated semantic representations are thought to spread activation down to their corresponding lexical representations at the lexical level.
First, we have to know whether the representations of the language-not-in-use are activated at all during production in the response language.
The larger the overlap between the input string and a representation in the mental lexicon, the more the internal representation is activated.
At first, all words that share the initial phoneme are activated.
Researchers can observe specific deficits that follow brain damage, and can also observe which areas of the brain are selectively activated during imagery.
