Results from the two SPM analyses. A, Main effects of all auditory stimuli; B, main effect of intelligible − unintelligible stimuli (intelligibility contrast). Results from analysis A show bilateral activation of Heschel's gyrus, planum temporal, and STG as well as cerebellar, visual, and right motor areas associated with making a decision on the gender of the speaker of the auditory stimuli. Results from analysis B show areas activated by intelligible auditory stimuli and include the length of the STS and part of the IFG on the left (POrb). Data from three of these areas (VOIs) were entered into the DCM analysis: A, aSTS; F, IFG (POrb); P, pSTS. A is thresholded at a voxel level of p < 0.05 (corrected for the search volume) and at a cluster level of 100 contiguous voxels; B is thresholded at a voxel level of p = 0.01 (uncorrected) and a cluster level of 50 contiguous voxels.