Skip to main content
. 2007 Oct 17;27(42):11431–11441. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2252-07.2007

Table 2.

Group average activation peaks for the experimental contrast audiovisual coincidence > noncoincidence within multisensory or sensory-specific regions (i.e., significant effect of visual minus auditory stimulation or vice versa)

Brain region MNI coordinates
Peak t p < x y z
Multisensory areas: audiovisual coincident > noncoincident condition
    Visual stimuli in RVF
        Contralateral left hemisphere
            Posterior STS 3.43 0.001 −54 −50 8
    Visual stimuli in LVF
        Contralateral right hemisphere
            Posterior STS 3.19 0.001 60 −48 12
Visual areas: audiovisual coincident > noncoincident condition
    Visual stimuli in RVF
        Contralateral left hemisphere
            Lingual gyrus/calcarine 3.01 0.001 −8 −76 2
            Fusiform gyrus 4.70 0.001 −30 −74 −16
            Transversal occipital sulcus 4.38 0.001 −26 −88 30
    Visual stimuli in LVF
        Contralateral right hemisphere
            Calcarine 3.07 0.001 12 −82 10
            Fusiform gyrus 4.70 0.001 24 −74 −4
            Transversal occipital sulcus 5.14 0.001 22 −88 36
Auditory areas: audiovisual coincident > noncoincident condition
    Visual stimuli in RVF
        Left hemisphere
            Heschl's gyrus 4.08 0.001 −50 −16 8
            Middle STG 3.03 0.001 −66 −28 12
            Planum polare 2.95 0.005 −48 −14 −6
        Right hemisphere
            Planum polare 3.89 0.001 54 −4 −8
            Middle STG 4.19 0.001 56 −18 2
            Middle STS 3.89 0.001 50 −10 −4
    Visual stimuli in LVF
        Right hemisphere
            Heschl's gyrus 3.46 0.001 48 −20 10
            Planum temporale/STS 3.46 0.001 54 −28 6
            Planum polare 3.86 0.001 −40 −22 −4
        Left hemisphere
            Planum temporale 4.18 0.001 38 −36 18
            Middle STG 3.55 0.001 64 −34 14

Only clusters containing >20 voxels are described (see Materials and Methods and Fig. 2). MNI, Montreal Neurological Institute; STG, superior temporal gyrus.