FIGURE 7.

Summary of the primary findings. (1) The results of the letter‐string response localizer suggest a visual to lexical transformation along the ventral surface of the left hemisphere in support of visual word recognition. White circles indicate the approximate location of each relevant cluster, which showed similar localizations and morphology to those identified by Gwilliams et al. (2016). The grey arrow indicates the inferred flow of information processing, from posterior to anterior. (2) Composition in color + noun phrases elicited the engagement of left perisylvian regions of interest, including the anterior temporal lobe, posterior temporal lobe, and angular gyrus, along with anterior sections of the left fusiform gyrus. Although a large patch of cortex is highlighted, only smaller portions of this may contain the true generators of this effect (see Figures 2, 3, 4, 5). (3) Of those areas engaged by color + noun combinations, only the left posterior temporal lobe ROI was further modulated by the need to retrieve or specify thematic relations between composing words in noun–noun combinations