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Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2012 Apr 17;36(7):1171–1179. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01731.x

Table 2.

Relationships between performance on the control, encoding and recognition tasks and regional brain volume

Control group Alcoholic group
CONTROL TASK RT NA Lateral frontal cortex (Rho=−0.56, p=0.04)
Medial frontal cortex (Rho=−0.60, p=0.03)
Ant/Mid cingulate gyrus (Rho=−0.75, p=0.005)
Temporal cortex (Rho=−0.59, p=0.035)
Parietal cortex (Rho=−0.68, p=0.01)
Insula (Rho=−0.63, p=0.02)
Caudate/Putamen (Rho=−0.56, p=0.04)
Globus pallidus (Rho=−0.65, p=0.02)
Inferior cerebellum (Rho=−0.57, p=0.04)
ENCODING TASK
Shallow encoding RT NA Medial frontal cortex (Rho=−0.63, p=0.02)
Temporal cortex (Rho=−0.59, p=0.035)
Insula (Rho=−0.67, p=0.015)
Calcarine gyrus (Rho=−0.79, p=0.003)*
Caudate/Putamen (Rho=−0.84, p=0.001)*
Globus pallidus (Rho=−0.57, p=0.04)
Deep encoding RT NA Precuneus (Rho=−0.73, p=0.005)
ASSOCIATIVE RECOGNITION TASK Parietal cortex (Rho=−0.73, p=0.005)
Shallow encoding CA Thalamus (Rho=0.63, p=0.025) NA
RT NA NA
Deep encoding CA Lateral frontal cortex (Rho=0.80, p=0.0025)* NA
Medial frontal cortex (Rho=0.76, p=0.005)
Temporal cortex (Rho=0.57, p=0.04)
Precuneus (Rho=0.55, p=0.045)
Parietal cortex (Rho=0.55, p=0.045)
Insula (Rho=0.70, p=0.02)
Caudate/Putamen (Rho=0.82, p=0.0015) *
Globus pallidus (Rho=0.61, p=0.025)
RT NA Inferior cerebellum (Rho=−0.75, p=0.005)
Superior cerebellum (Rho=−0.64, p=0.025)
SINGLE-ITEM RECOGNITION TASK
Shallow encoding CA NA Precuneus (Rho=0.60, p=0.03)
Superior cerebellum(Rho=0.55, p=0.045)
NA NA
Deep encoding CA NA NA
RT NA NA

CA: accuracy; RT: reaction time

*

: Correlation also significant at p<0.003 (Bonferroni corrected)

Significant group by regional brain volume interactions (p<0.05) are in bold