sentence: Because reading aloud involves mapping to phonology rather than stopping at semantics , we expect connections from semantic ( ITS , AG ) to phonological regions ( pSTG , pMTG ) to emerge for words that do not have consistent orth → phon mappings1.Using a previously collected fMRI dataset ( Graves et al ., 2010 ) , we examined patterns of effective connectivity for words that differed in imageability , consistency , and frequency .