Table 1.

Reaction times and error rates for the different tasks in both groups.

	Auditory word stimuli		Visual word stimuli
	RT ± SEM (ms)	ER ± SEM (%)	RT ± SEM (ms)	ER ± SEM (%)
Group receiving TMS over the pIFG (n = 14)
Task: phonological word judgement
TMS to left pIFG	1157 ± 57.51	0.12 ± 0.04	792 ± 53.03	0.09 ± 0.02
TMS to right pIFG	1166 ± 56.78	0.12 ± 0.04	792 ± 58.98	0.10 ± 0.02
Bilateral TMS of pIFG	1176 ± 59.07	0.12 ± 0.04	802 ± 57.34	0.07 ± 0.02
Task: semantic word judgement
TMS to left pIFG	978 ± 41.25	0.08 ± 0.03	712 ± 38.62	0.03 ± 0.01
TMS to right pIFG	977 ± 33.78	0.06 ± 0.03	714 ± 32.50	0.04 ± 0.01
Bilateral TMS of pIFG	970 ± 39.26	0.07 ± 0.04	723 ± 33.15	0.03 ± 0.01
Group receiving TMS over the aIFG (n = 14)
Task: phonological word judgement
TMS to left aIFG	1031 ± 37.13	0.02 ± 0.01	676 ± 15.78	0.07 ± 0.02
TMS to right aIFG	1029 ± 45.17	0.02 ± 0.01	665 ± 18.22	0.06 ± 0.02
Bilateral TMS of aIFG	1029 ± 43.54	0.04 ± 0.01	688 ± 21.70	0.05 ± 0.02
Task: semantic word judgement
TMS to left aIFG	1013 ± 28.30	0.04 ± 0.01	687 ± 10.72	0.06 ± 0.03
TMS to right aIFG	1016 ± 28.97	0.06 ± 0.02	690 ± 13.12	0.05 ± 0.02
Bilateral TMS of aIFG	1017 ± 32.82	0.04 ± 0.01	710 ± 15.44	0.05 ± 0.02

ER = error rates; RT = reaction times; SEM = standard error of the mean (in milliseconds or percent of all trials).