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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2008 May 27;64(5):407–418. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.03.018

Table 5.

Main effects across all participants: Concrete sentences versus abstract sentences

No. Region Lat. BA Area mm2 Tal. x, y, z p Area mm2 Tal. x, y, z p Area mm2 Tal. x, y, z p
Table 5A: CONCRETE VERSUS ABSTRACT Main effect of Concreteness: Concrete > Abstract Controls: Concrete > Abstract Patients: Concrete > Abstract
1 Orbito frontal cortex L 11 800 −21 24 −13 2.2e−6 775 −21 25 −11 .00049 368 −21 24 −11 .00046
R 1040 20 26 −15 1.8e−7 592 19 28 −19 .00017 526 21 29 −18 8.1e−5
2 Inferior frontal sulcus L 46/45 429 −36 34 11 .0002 799 −38 36 10 .00012 NS
R 451 39 40 −4 .0001 781 40 38 7 .00024 NS
3 Supramar ginal gyrus/Postcentr al gyrus L 40/1 930 −54 −26 36 5.0e−6 781 −53 −32 37 .00047 1320 −60 −23 21 .00063
R 1471 57 −21 31 5.4e−5 1035 55 −26 27 .00037 357 60 −19 33 .00096
4 Middle/Inferior temporal gyrus (posterior) L 21 1700 −53 −42 −5 4.07e−9 1490 −54 −47 2 6.9e−5 958 −54 −44 1 .00032
R 1650 58 −37 −2 9.33e−5 309 55 − 47 3 .00135 520 56 −42 −1 .00157
5 Angular gyrus/Middle occipital gyrus L 39/19 1670 −37 −65 32 2.0e−7 1382 −39 −72 31 .00076 90 −46 −77 30 6.3e−6
R 1483 46 −67 30 .0003 1278 46 −68 30 .00313 NS
6 Precuneus L 31 579 −12 −60 16 2.0e−5 246 −12 −60 15 ^.00631 327 −10 −60 15 .00245
7 Post. Cingulated gyrus L 31/23 334 −11 −32 35 5.0e−5 523 −12 −31 36 .00032 NS
R 803 12 −34 37 .0002 916 12 −34 42 4.6e−5 NS
8 Parahippo campal gyrus/Medial fusiform L 36 3000 −27 −25 −20 .0009 1600 −26 −27 − 20 .0015 2229 −27 −29 − 16 .00182
R 2000 25 −25 −19 .0005 890 22 −8 −28 .0046 968 28 −26 −18 .00479
Table 5B. ABSTRACT > CONCRETE Main effect of Concreteness: Abstract > Concrete Controls: Abstract > Concrete Patients: Abstract > Concrete
1 Inferior frontal gyrus L 47/45 999 −45 31 −4 1.8ei−5 465 −43 31 −4 .0004 988 −48 35 2 .01259
2 Anterior lateral temporal cortex (middle temporal & temporal pole) L 21/20 1576 −50 −10 −15 1.6e−7 851 −57 −6 −19 .00013 1361 −51 −1 −23 .00372
R 21/38 360 43 14 −27 3.2e−5 276 48 7 −28 ^.00324 334 40 14 −28 .00174
3 Mid-portion of superior temporal sulcus and middle temporal gyrus L 22/21 1100 −53 −33 1 6.3e−6 320 −56 −41 6 .00126 1221 −50 −40 4 .00065
4 Inferior parietal lobule and Posterior superior temporal sulcus L 40/22 910 −40 −48 31 3.0e−6 497 −38 −52 32 .00083 970 −39 −50 34 .00129
5 Cuneus L 18 491 −9 −93 9 1.5e5 943 −5 −93 4 .00087 1230 −9 −92 8 .00186
R 911 4 −85 21 .00032 800 6 −90 11 .00056 561 10 −83 2 0.005

No. corresponds directly to cluster labels in Figure 2 (for Table 5A) and Figure 3 (for Table 5B) When clusters or Brodmann Areas (BAs) span over more than one region, both regions/BAs are indicated, separated by a hash sign. Lat.: Laterality. Tal. (Talairach) coordinates. All clusters indicated in p column reached cluster-level significance, p < 0.05 corrected across the whole cortex, except for those marked with ^ that reached a voxel-wise significance of p < 0.05, uncorrected across the cortex. NS: non-significant.