Table 7.
Brain regions showing significant correlations between GMV and reading abilities in univariate VBM analysis
| Brain Regions | L/R | No. Voxels | MNI Coordinates |
Z | Person's r |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | D | A | S | |||||
| Phonological decoding | ||||||||||
| Positive | SPL/SMG | L | 45 | −30 | −38 | 42 | 4.35 | 0.24 | −0.10 | −0.01 |
| Negative | PCC/PreCu | L | 193 | −6 | −52 | 24 | 4.43 | −0.28 | −0.09 | −0.02 |
| Form-sound association | ||||||||||
| Positive | Hipp | R | 40 | 24 | −36 | 4 | 4.39 | −0.02 | 0.25 | −0.06 |
| SFG | R | 75 | 4 | 36 | 48 | 4.20 | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.06 | |
| Hipp | L | 104 | −28 | −32 | −6 | 3.98 | 0.07 | 0.23 | 0.003 | |
| AG | L | 34 | −56 | −50 | 20 | 3.94 | −0.08 | 0.23 | 0.07 | |
| Negative | NONE | |||||||||
| Naming speed | ||||||||||
| Positive | Ins | R | 69 | 44 | 12 | −6 | 4.12 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.24 |
| TPJ | R | 33 | 56 | −38 | 16 | 3.73 | −0.04 | 0.02 | 0.22 | |
| MFG | R | 33 | 36 | 6 | 38 | 3.60 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.22 | |
| ACC | L | 54 | −8 | 40 | 28 | 4.36 | −0.01 | −0.01 | 0.26 | |
| PCC/PreCu | L | 52 | −10 | −66 | 34 | 3.80 | −0.03 | 0.01 | 0.23 | |
| Negative | NONE | |||||||||
SPL, Superior parietal lobe; SMG, supramarginal gyrus; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; PreCu, precuneus; Hipp, hippocampus; M/SFG, middle/superior frontal gyrus; AG, angular gyrus; Ins, insula; TPJ, temporal-parietal junction; ACC, anterior cingulate cortex.