Figure 1.

Experimental paradigm. Subjects underwent two experimental runs: reading single words (nonwords and real words) aloud and silently. No stimuli were repeated across the two runs. Each run consisted of blocks during which subjects read words (48 s) or blocks during which they only fixated (24 s). During the reading blocks three words (or nonwords) were presented during an 8‐s trial, followed by a 4‐s acquisition period. Each block contained four epochs (trial plus acquisitions) each epoch lasting 12 s, the duration of the TR. Real word or pseudoword trials consisted of a 200 ms word presentations, followed by a pause of 2450 ms in which a crosshair was presented and the subjects responded aloud or silently.