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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsy Behav. 2013 Oct 3;29(2):10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.08.028. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.08.028

Table 2.

Functional activation within periventricular heterotopic nodules during performance of reading-related tasks

Phonological task contrasts Orthographic task contrasts Rapid naming task contrasts
Participant Age (yr)/handed/sex Picture rhyme vs. match Print rhyme vs. match Word match vs. lines match Word match vs. symbols match Letters vs. rest Numbers vs. rest Two-set vs. rest
1 32/R/F None None L anterior nodule, with overlying cortex (Fig. 2A) None None None R anterior nodule, with overlying and mult B cortical regions* (Fig. 3C)
2 42/R/M L posterior nodule, with mult B cortical regions* (Fig. 1A) None None None L posterior nodule, with overlying and mult B cortical regions* R anterior nodule, with overlying cortex* None
3 27/R/F None None None None None None None
4 27/R/F R anterior nodule, with overlying and contra posterior cortex (Fig. 1B) None None None R anterior nodule, with overlying and contra homologous cortex* (Fig. 3A) R anterior nodule, with overlying and contra homologous cortex* R anterior nodule, with contra homologous cortex*
5 29/R/F None None None R anterior nodule, with mult B cortical regions* (Fig. 2B) None None None
6 21/R/M None None None None None L anterior nodule, with overlying and contra homologous cortex (Fig. 3B) L anterior nodule, with overlying and contra homologous cortex
7 40/R/F None None None None None L and R posterior nodules, with mult B cortical regions* L posterior nodule, with mult B cortical regions*
8 19/R/F None None None None None None None

Abbreviations: yr = years; L = left; R = right; F = female; M = male; B = bilateral; mult = multiple; contra = contralateral

*

Cortical regions included those with demonstrated resting-state functional connectivity to indicated region of heterotopia as well [13].