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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Cogn Neurosci. 2014 Feb 25;26(8):1748–1763. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00583

Table 5. Brain Regions Sensitive to Sentence Intelligibility.

Coordinate
Contrast No. of Voxels Region x y z F/T z
Main effect of intelligibility (F test) 1493 Left STS/temporal pole −60 −10 −4 48.39 6.39
−54 −42 4 47.84 6.36
−66 −24 2 37.11 5.65
332 Right STG 60 −8 −8 32.69 5.32
64 −16 −2 24.92 4.67
390 Left Heschl’s gyrus/planum temporale −42 −22 6 23.20 4.50
−44 −30 8 23.18 4.50
190 Right insula/Heschl’s gyrus 42 −12 −4 17.14 3.86
46 −18 6 15.05 3.61
52 −8 6 14.49 3.54
73 Right planum temporale/rolandic operculum 42 −28 16 15.83 3.71
52 −26 16 13.43 3.40
Positive effect of intelligibility (t test) 1654 Left STS −60 −10 −4 6.96 6.50
−54 −42 4 6.92 6.46
−66 −24 2 6.09 5.77
395 Right STG/STS 60 −8 −8 5.72 5.45
64 −16 −2 4.99 4.81
Negative effect of intelligibility (t test) 475 Left Heschl’s gyrus/planum temporal −42 −30 9 5.03 4.84
−42 −21 3 4.96 4.78
−30 −30 18 3.45 3.38
465 Right insula/Heschl’s gyrus/rolandic operculum 42 −12 −3 4.36 4.24
42 −27 12 4.02 3.92
51 −9 3 3.94 3.84

Voxel height threshold p < .001 (uncorrected), cluster extent 20 voxels (corrected; Slotnick et al., 2003). Coordinates indicate the position of the peak voxel from each significant cluster, in MNI stereotactic space.