When a person reads the letters spelling "light bulb", the phonemes for it flow through the auditory cortex.

True: neuroscience research shows that reading words (including silent reading) routinely activates phonological representations, with activity in auditory cortex or auditory-associated cortex (e.g. superior temporal regions). Mostly true: reading does automatically trigger phonological processing, but the activity is mainly in phonological or language areas next to primary auditory cortex rather than in auditory cortex itself, or it varies by reader or task. Mixed: evidence on phonological activation in skilled silent reading is genuinely divided. Mostly false: phonological activation happens only in some conditions (e.g. beginning readers, reading aloud), and the general statement overstates it. False: evidence shows no phonological or auditory-area activation during reading.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 The Roles of Phonology in Silent Reading: A Selective Review Springer (chapter by C. Clifton, in Frazier & Gibson (eds.), Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing) · 2015

   “Knowledge of the mapping of orthography onto phonology appears to be important in skilled reading, and this knowledge is applied very early in the process of recognizing words in isolation.”

2. E2 The Roles of Phonology in Silent Reading: A Selective Review Springer (chapter by C. Clifton, in Frazier & Gibson (eds.), Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing) · 2015

   “The same is true when one is reading sentences and texts, and the creation of a phonological representation of a text appears to play a critical role in guiding the movement of the eyes during reading.”

3. E3 The Roles of Phonology in Silent Reading: A Selective Review (reference list) Springer (chapter by C. Clifton, in Frazier & Gibson (eds.), Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing) · 2015

   “Rayner, K., Sereno, S. C., Lesch, M. F., & Pollatsek, A. (1995). Phonological codes are automatically activated during reading: Evidence from an eye movement paradigm. Psychological Science, 6, 26–32.”

4. E4 The Roles of Phonology in Silent Reading: A Selective Review (reference list) Springer (chapter by C. Clifton, in Frazier & Gibson (eds.), Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing) · 2015

   “Ashby, J. (2010). Phonology is fundamental in skilled reading: Evidence from ERPs. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 95–100.”

The evidence shows that phonological knowledge is applied early and automatically in skilled reading [E1, E2, E3, E4], but no item says where in the brain this activity occurs. So it cannot decide between auditory cortex activity (true) and activity mainly in neighbouring language areas (mostly true) under the criteria.