Table 6.
Correlations between reading skill, working memory capacity, and activation across sentence types
| Cortical region | Peak, BA | Cluster size | Peak T value | MNI coordinates |
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| x | y | z | ||||
| Negative correlation between reading skill and sentence activation | ||||||
| LH middle/inferior frontal | 9 | 85 | 4.50 | −28 | 44 | 10 |
| RH inferior frontal | 46 | 42 | 4.10 | 52 | 22 | 28 |
| LH inferior frontal | 47 | 18 | 4.5 | −58 | 20 | −2 |
| RH middle frontal | 10 | 12 | 4.09 | 32 | 44 | 4 |
| Superior/medial frontal, SMA | 6 | 45 | 4.47 | −4 | 6 | 66 |
| Negative correlation between working memory capacity and sentence activation | ||||||
| RH parahippocampal | 36 | 19 | 4.03 | 14 | −2 | 20 |
| Positive correlation between working memory capacity and sentence activation | ||||||
| LH inferior orbital frontal | 11 | 32 | 4.58 | −20 | 26 | −12 |
| RH superior frontal | 6 | 14 | 3.94 | 20 | 0 | 70 |