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.