Figure 2.
Significant brain activity (thresholded at pFDR < 0.05 corrected) for the contrast of (A) Eng (unaccented), (B) Jpn (unaccented), (C) Eng (accented), and (D) Jpn (accented). All contrasts showed activity bilaterally in premotor cortex and Broca's area, the superior temporal gyrus/sulcus, the inferior parietal lobule, the pre- supplementary motor area pre-SMA, and the cerebellum. The conjunction analysis, shown in (G), confirmed these regions were active for all conditions (E). The contrast of accented Relative to unaccented thresholded at p < 0.001 uncorrected for Jpn showed activity in the left inferior frontal gyrus in Broca's area 44, the right dorsal premotor cortex, the pre-SMA, and the cerebellum bilaterally (F). The contrast of accented relative to unaccented for the Jpn group did not show any significant activity thresholded at p < 0.001 uncorrected. The main effect of language group (Japanese vs. English) is shown in (H), red corresponds to activity thresholded at p < 0.001 for Japanese > English and blue corresponds to activity for English > Japanese.