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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Neurosci. 2009;2(2):111–123. doi: 10.3922/j.psns.2009.2.003

Table 3. Contrasts between listening and reading comprehension.

Voxels T-value MNI

Listen > read x y z
Temporal lobe
R sup temp gyrus 14,129 15.78 52 -14 2
 L calcarine
 R lingual gyrus
 R mid temp
L sup temp gyrus 3,397 14.67 -40 -34 8
 L mid temp gyrus
 L Heschl's gyrus
 R mid temp gyrus 110 4.99 60 -52 14
 R angular gyrus
Frontal lobe
R sup front gyrus 24 7.55 36 -4 62
R precentral gyrus 30 5.13 54 -10 46
R supp motor area 23 5.08 8 0 62
Subcortical
L hypothalamus 146 8.06 -2 0 -12
R thalamus 53 5.19 18 -26 -4
Read > listen x y z

L inf occipital gyrus 65 5.36 -34 -90 -16
 L lingual gyrus
 L fusiform gyrus

(p < 0.001 uncorrected; T = 4.02; extent threshold voxels = 6; T-value and MNI coordinate are for the peak activated voxel in each cluster only. AAL labeling (Tzourio-Mazoyer, et al., 2002); centroids sorted according to descending T-values)