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Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2011 Oct 14;15(11):527–536. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.10.001

Figure 2. Meta-analysis of functional imaging studies of semantic processing.

Figure 2

This figure displays brain regions reliably activated by general semantic processes, based on reported activation peaks from 120 independent functional imaging studies (p <.05 corrected for family-wise error). The analysis method assigns a significance value to the degree of spatial overlap between the reported activation coordinates in a standard volume space. The figure shows selected sagittal sections in the left hemisphere; right hemisphere activations occurred in similar locations but were less extensive. AG = angular gyrus, FG = fusiform gyrus, IFG = inferior frontal gyrus, MTG = middle temporal gyrus, PC = posterior cingulate gyrus, SFG = superior frontal gyrus, SMG = supramarginal gyrus, VMPFC = ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Green lines indicate the Y and Z axes in standard space. Adapted from [47].