The role of the inferior frontal gyrus in Conceptual Priming: a combined rTMS and fMRI study

Conceptual Priming is a non-conscious form of memory denoting changes in word classification as a result of a previous encounter. The conceptual processing of primed words relevant for the target is facilitated compared to non-primed words. This effect is assumed to be independent of explicit memory. A previous fMRI study found that the left frontal gyrus is crucially involved in this process (Buelte et al., 2005). To disentangle the functional role of the left frontal gyrus for the conceptual Priming effect we designed a combined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and repetitive transcranial magnetic…