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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Neurophysiol. 2012 Nov 4;124(4):675–685. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.10.007

Table 2.

Ten Regions with strongest (smaller ratios) and ten with weakest (larger ratios) gating of the P50 (S2/S1 × 100)

Strong RS Regions Mean and SD Functional Significance
Rt-dmdCing(5) 11±30 Action: imagination, execution; tasks: anti-saccades, finger tapping, flexion/extension, imagined movement, saccades.
Rt-vMTG (3) 18±15 Emotion: happiness, disgust.
Rt-dSFG(4) 21±16 Action: imagination, motor learning; Visual perception: motion; tasks: action observation, anti-saccades, drawing, finger tapping, flexion/extension, imagined movement, mental rotation, saccades, sequence recall/learning, visual distractor/visual attention.
Lt-svOL (4) 24±40 Cognition: language, memory, music, reasoning; tasks: counting/calculation, Sternberg task.
Lt-ivIFG(4) 27±28 Emotion: disgust; Cognition; tasks: delayed match to sample, eating/drinking, reward task.
Rt-imdIPG(4) 28±13 Action; Perception; task: visual distractor/visual attention.
Rt-dSTG(9) 29±20 Perception; tasks: action observation, face monitor/discrimination, film viewing, music comprehension/production, oddball discrimination, passive listening, pitch monitor/discrimination, reading (overt), tone monitor/discrimination.
Rt-dMFG(4) 29±7 Action: execution, imagination, Perception; tasks: finger tapping, flexion/extension, imagined movement, saccades, tactile monitor/discrimination.
Rt-imdIFG(6) 30±29 Action: imagination, inhibition; Interoception: air-hunger, sleep, thirst; Emotion; tasks: flexion/extension, non-painful electrical stimulation, oddball discrimination, pain monitor/discrimination, tactile monitor/discrimination, tone monitor/discrimination.
Lt-dMFG(6) 39±32 Action execution: other than speech; Perception: somesthesis (other than pain); Tasks: finger tapping, go/no-go, grasping, imagined movement, non-painful electrical stimulation, sequence recall/learning, tactile monitor/discrimination, vibrotactile monitor/discrimination, visual distractor/attention.
Weak RS regions
Rt-vMFG(3) 89±67 Cognition: attention, memory, reasoning; tasks: counting/calculation; delayed match to sample, Sternberg task, task switching, visual distractor/visual attention.
Lt-ivIPG(5) 86±39 Action: execution; Perception: audition, somesthesis (pain); tasks: finger tapping, non-painful electrical stimulation, oddball discrimination, pain monitor/discrimination, passive listening, tactile monitor/disrimination, tone monitor/discrimination, chewing/swallowing.
Rt-svOL (4) 85±78 Congnition; Perception; tasks: action observation, film viewing, saccades, visual distractor/visual attention, visual pursuit/tracking.
Lt-dITG(5) 80±76 Cognition: language (orthography, semantics); tasks: face monitor/discrimination, reading (covert, overt), semantic monitor/discrimination.
Lt-vFMG(4) 77±16 Cognition: attention, memory, reasoning; tasks: delayed match to sample, semantic monitor/discrimination, Sternberg task, task switching, word generation (overt, covert), n-back.
Rt-mdmT(8) 76±35 Emotion: anger, fear; Interoception: air-hunger, bladder, sexuality; tasks: face monitor/disrimination; olfactory monitor/discrimination, passive viewing, reward task.
Rt-dITG(7) 67±35 Emotion; Cognition; face monitor/discrimination.
Lt-mdmT (7) 64±40 Emotion: fear, anxiety, disgust; Interoception: air-hunger, sexuality, sleep, thermoregulation; tasks: cued explicit recognition, face monitor/discrimination, naming (overt), passive viewing.
Lf-mdSTG11) 60±48 Action; Cognition; Emotion; tasks: drawing, oddball discrimination, passive listening, phonological discrimination, pitch monitor/discrimination, reading (overt), recitation/repetition (overt), syntactic discrimination, tone monitor/discrimination, chewing/swallowing.
Lt-pCing (3) 55±32 Cognition: attention, memory, reasoning; tasks: flashing checkerboard, visual pursuit/tracking.

dmdCing, dorsal middle cingulate gyrus; vMTG, ventral middle temporal gyrus; dSFG, dorsal superior frontal gyrus; svOL, superior ventral occipital lobe; ivIFG, inferior ventral inferior frontal gyrus;imdIPG, inferior middle inferior parietal gyrus; dSTG, dorsal superior temporal gyrus; dMFG, dorsal middle frontal gyrus; imdIFG, inferior middle inferior frontal gyrus; dMFG, dorsal middle frontal gyrus; vMFG, ventral middle frontal gyrus; ivIPG, inferior ventral inferior parietal gyrus; svOL, superior ventral occipital lobe;dITG, dorsal inferior temporal gyrus; vMFG, ventral middle frontal gyrus; mdmT, middle medial temporal area; dITG, dorsal inferior temporal gyrus; mdSTG, middle superior temporal gyrus; pCing, posterior cingulate gyrus.