Many contextual features like these have common names, but many others have no such words, just as we have no expressions for most flavors and aromas, gestures and intonations, attitudes and dispositions. I have proposed to use the term "micronemes" for the myriad of nameless clues that color and shade our thoughts about things, and the figure below suggests some machinery through which such contextual features could affect our mental processes. Imagine that the brain contains a bundle of thousands of wirelike fibers that pass through a great many other structures inside that brain - so that the state of each of those micronemes can influence many other processes.
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