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. 2010 Jul 22;3:206. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-206

Table 1.

Brain areas with significant gray matter correlations (p < .001 uncorrected) with each intelligence factor (all correlations are positive except for the Memory factor)*

Factor Name B A Region Name x y z Z Cluster FDR
g-factor (+) BA 9 Middle Frontal Gyrus -36 23 30 4.02 165

Substania Nigra 12 -22 -7 3.17 272


Speed of Reasoning (+) BA 37 Sub-Gyral 48 -45 -5 3.47 895

BA 47 Inf. Frontal Gyrus -50 42 -16 3.08 35

BA 10 Inf. Frontal Gyrus 57 41 -2 3.07 66

BA 38 Sup. Temporal Gyrus -42 5 -17 3.03 416

BA 31 Posterior Cingulate -24 -63 14 3.03 700

BA 18 Lingual Gyrus 30 -74 -8 2.97 147

Inf. Semi-Lunar Lob. 6 -65 -49 3.59 598


Numerical Factor (+) BA 18 Mid. Occipital Gyrus 26 -81 6 3.16 76

BA 24 Cingulate Gyrus -12 2 31 3.03 33


Spatial Factor (+) BA 8 Mid. Frontal Gyrus -30 14 40 3.64 186

Lat. Geniculum Body -26 -23 -2 3.03 178


Memory Factor (-) BA 17 Cuneus 24 -91 1 4.29 12,856 .025

BA 19 Mid. Occipital Gyrus 28 -81 15 4.21 .025

BA 18 Lingual Gyrus 14 -68 5 4.21 .025

BA 31 Cingulate Gyrus 20 -47 23 3.66 136 .025

BA 37 Sub-Gyral -50 -45 -8 3.52 371 .025

BA 47 Inf. Frontal Gyrus -50 38 -17 3.51 196 .028

BA 32 Anterior Cingulate 10 30 -12 3.46 5,131 .030

BA 11 Sup. Frontal Gyrus -16 54 -15 3.30 .037

BA 11 Med. Frontal Gyrus -6 61 -17 3.28 .037

BA 21 Mid. Temporal Gyrus -44 2 -34 3.27 737 .038

BA 38 Sup. Temporal Gyrus -34 6 -27 3.03

BA 3 Postcentral Gyrus 57 -18 29 2.74

BA 10 Mid. Frontal Gyrus -30 52 1 3.13 140 .046

BA 46 Inf. Frontal Gyrus 55 43 2 3.11 104 .048

BA 43 Postcentral Gyrus 69 -9 17 2.98 136

Thalamus -24 -23 1 3.01 752

Thalamus -16 -31 2 2.98

* BA is Brodmann Area, Talairach x, y, z co-ordinates; positive × values are in right hemisphere; Z is z-score; cluster size is number of voxels (blank entry denotes part of previous cluster); FDR is False Discovery Rate (blank entry denotes not significant p < .05).