Selective attention to “physical” vs “verbal” aspects of colored words

Colored Nested Words

Nested words allow modeling of linear and hierarchical structure in data, and nested word automata are special kinds of pushdown automata whose push/pop actions are directed by the hierarchical structure in the input nested word. The resulting class of regular languages of nested words has many appealing theoretical properties, and has found many applications, including model checking of proced...

On k-colored Motzkin words

Modulation of human extrastriate visual processing by selective attention to colours and words.

The present study investigated the effect of visual selective attention upon neural processing within functionally specialized regions of the human extrastriate visual cortex. Field potentials were recorded directly from the inferior surface of the temporal lobes in subjects with epilepsy. The experimental task required subjects to focus attention on words from one of two competing texts. Words...

Selective attention to phonology dynamically modulates initial encoding of auditory words within the left hemisphere

Selective attention to phonology, i.e., the ability to attend to sub-syllabic units within spoken words, is a critical precursor to literacy acquisition. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence has demonstrated that a left-lateralized network of frontal, temporal, and posterior language regions, including the visual word form area, supports this skill. The current event-related po...

Selective attention to emotional stimuli in a verbal go/no-go task: an fMRI study.

Tasks requiring subjects to attend emotional attributes of words have been used to study mood-congruent information processing biases in anxiety and affective disorders. In this study we adapted an emotional go/no-go task, for use with fMRI to assess the neural substrates of focusing on emotional attributes of words in normal subjects. The key findings were that responding to targets defined on...