Table 1.

Regions associated with acquiring tying experience (compared to no tying experience) and acquiring naming experience (compared to no naming experience).

Region	BA	MNI coordinates			Putative functional name	t-value	Cluster size	Pcorr value
		x	y	z
(a) Tying experience>no tying experience
R postcentral gyrus	7	54	−27	57	aIPS	5.05	154	0.001
R supramarginal gyrus	2	54	−21	36	IPS	3.94
R supramarginal gyrus	40	63	−24	36	IPL	3.92
L inferior parietal lobule	2	−42	−36	42	IPL	4.72	138	0.002
L inferior parietal lobule	40	−54	−36	54	IPL	3.57
L inferior parietal lobule	7	−33	−45	42	IPS	3.56
L fusiform gyrus	37	−33	−66	−15	V4	4.26	14	0.821
L lingual gyrus	19	−33	−63	−6	V8	3.32
R inferior parietal lobule	40	33	−48	48	pIPS	4.17	33	0.324
L rolandic operculum	13	−45	−3	12		4.16	22	0.584
L middle occipital gyrus	19	−30	−66	36		4.09	54	0.099
L superior parietal lobule	7	−18	−78	48	SPL	3.77
R inferior temporal gyrus	37	54	−66	−9	ITG	3.95	40	0.218
R superior occipital gyrus	19	30	−84	39		3.93	86	0.019
R superior parietal lobule	7	21	−66	57	SPL	3.31
R superior parietal lobule	7	24	−63	51	SPL	3.30
R middle occipital gyrus	19	45	−87	6	LOC	3.90	83	0.022
R middle occipital gyrus	19	42	−90	9	LOC	3.80
R middle occipital gyrus	19	36	−84	18	LOC	3.80
R postcentral gyrus	1	39	−39	69	S1	3.40	12	0.875
(b) Naming experience>no naming experience
No suprathreshold clusters emerged from this analysis

Results from the tying>no tying experience and the naming>no naming experience contrasts, from the post-training scanning session, with a small volume correction of all knots>baseline (at p<0.01) from the Week 1 (pre-training) fMRI session. Significance at all sites for each contrast was tested by a one-sample t test on β values averaged over each voxel in the cluster, with a significance threshold of p<0.005 and k=10 voxels. Coordinates are from the MNI template and use the same orientation and origin as found in Talairach and Tournoux (1988) atlas. Activations in boldface denotes significance at the p<0.01 cluster-corrected level. Up to three local maxima are listed when a cluster has multiple peaks more than 8mm apart. Cluster-corrected activations are illustrated in Fig. 5.

Abbreviations for brain regions: aIPS, anterior intraparietal sulcus; IPS, intraparietal sulcus; IPL, inferior parietal lobule; V4, extrastriate visual cortex; V8, extrastriate visual cortex; pIPS, posterior intraparietal sulcus; SPL, superior parietal lobule; ITG, inferior temporal gyrus; LOC, lateral occipital cortex; S1, primary somatosensory cortex.