Table 2.

Significance levels for English (sentences vs. consonant strings) for the left hemisphere (left), right hemisphere (right), and the hemisphere asymmetry (hemi) for each group studied.

AREAS	WRITTEN ENGLISH CONDITION
	Hearing			Deaf			Hearing native signers
	Left	Right	Hemi	Left	Right	Hemi	Left	Right	Hemi
Frontal
Middle frontal gyrus	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Frontal pole	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Frontal orbital cortex	NS	NS	.043	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	.005	NS	.024	.038	NS	NS	.0005	NS	.0000
Broca’s*	.0004	.039	.011	.038	.030	NS	.0009	NS	.0005
Precentral sulcus, inf.	.002	.048	.038	.003	.004	NS	.007	NS	NS
Precentral sulcus, post.	.007	NS	.012	.020	NS	NS	.004	NS	NS
Precentral sulcus, sup.	.010	NS	.011	.007	.046	.041	.020	NS	NS
Central sulcus	.035	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	.018	NS	.017
Temporal
Temporal Pole	.021	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Superior temp. sulcus, ant.	.001	.047	.007	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Superior temp. sulcus, mid.	.0007	.010	.005	.017	.001	NS	NS	NS	NS
Superior temp. sulcus, post.	.0000	NS	.0001	.019	.0009	NS	.019	NS	.032
Sylvian fissure, ant.	.044	NS	NS	.013	NS	NS	NS	NS	.015
Sylvian fissure, mid.	.015	NS	NS	.022	NS	.030	NS	NS	NS
Temporoparietal
Supramarginal gyrus	.007	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	.023
Angular gyrus	.003	NS	.0002	NS	.005	NS	.042	NS	.010
Anterior occipital sulcus	.039	NS	NS	.044	.001	NS	.028	NS	.005
Intraparietal sulcus	NS	NS	NS	.044	.020	NS	.044	NS	NS
Postcentral sulcus	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS

NS, not significant (P > .05). The cortical areas were defined relative to sulcal anatomy. 

^*Pars frontalis, opercularis, triangularis.