Table 2. Correlations between the basal ganglia nuclei volumes and different aspects of intelligence.

		Figural intelligence				Numeric intelligence				Verbal intelligence
		female		male		female		Male		female		male
		fluid	Crystallised	fluid	crystallised	fluid	crystallised	fluid	crystallised	fluid	crystallised	fluid	crystallised
Region
Caudate	total	−.141	.139	.507 **	.295	.021	.288 *	.170	.430 *	−.025	.170	.227	.187
	left	−.081	.094	.546 **	.341	.059	.247	.246	.389	−.027	.147	.248	.193
	right	−.192	.171	.453 *	.245	−.016	.306 *	.090	.459 *	−.023	.180	.199	.177
Putamen	total	.076	.318 *	.263	−.083	.042	.202	.071	.299	.098	.092	.123	.011
	left	.123	.336 *	.187	−.102	.096	.206	−.082	.280	.147	.088	.005	−.028
	right	.018	.287 *	.325	−.061	−.024	.190	.227	.311	.037	.092	.239	.050
Pallidum	total	.307	.372 **	.117	−.008	.025	.242	−.267	.403	.246	.083	−.304	.130
	left	.346 *	.394 **	.073	−.125	.048	.233	−.264	.228	.253	.058	−.299	−.003
	right	.164	.285 *	.152	.093	.001	.212	−.243	.518 *	.202	.097	−.279	.234

Nominal significant Pearson’s correlation coefficients in bold,

*indicate p-values ≤0.05,

**p≤0.01.