Table 4.
Brain regions modulated by syntactic complexity in controls
| Brain region | MNI coordinates |
Volume (mm3) | Max t | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | ||||
| Left IFS, dorsal posterior IFG, and insula | −40 | 21 | 20 | 9400 | 5.72 | <0.001 |
| IFS | −46 | 22 | 30 | 5.72 | ||
| Anterior insula | −30 | 22 | 0 | 5.49 | ||
| Right IFS, dorsal posterior IFG, and insula | 45 | 26 | 7 | 5432 | 4.95 | 0.001 |
| IFS | 48 | 26 | 26 | 4.65 | ||
| Anterior insula | 36 | 22 | −4 | 4.95 | ||
| Left mid-posterior STS and adjacent MTG | −51 | −48 | 9 | 5016 | 5.46 | 0.001 |
| Posterior STS | −44 | −54 | 18 | 5.46 | ||
| Mid-STS | −50 | −34 | −2 | 3.73 | ||
| Left precuneus and superior parietal cortex | −15 | −72 | 53 | 4856 | 7.22 | 0.001 |
| Bilateral supplementary motor area | 1 | 15 | 56 | 3552 | 4.81 | 0.009 |
| Left precuneus | −4 | −58 | 42 | 2560 | 4.73 | 0.049 |
MNI coordinates for clusters are centers of mass, whereas MNI coordinates for multiple regions within a cluster are local maxima.