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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Sci. 2014 Aug 6;18(3):351–372. doi: 10.1111/desc.12216

Table 2.

Brain areas that showed significant activation during the solving of addition and subtraction problems in the combined group of DD and TD children

Peak z-score Cluster size (voxels) Peak z-score Peak MNI coordinates
x y Z
Addition & Subtraction
 Bilateral visual cortex/lingual gyrus/ cerebellum 9467 7.59 16 −84 4
 Pre-SMA 2742 7.43 −4 10 52
 Left precentral/ postcentral gyrus 2876 6.65 −36 −26 54
 Left insula 694 6.61 −30 24 6
 Right insula 592 5.59 36 20 4
 Left IPS 677 5.31 −28 −64 42
 Left thalamus 286 5.21 −12 −20 12
 Right IPS 263 4.93 32 −60 44
 Left MFG 97 4.65 −50 30 34
 Right MFG 271 4.51 48 38 26

DD = Developmental Dyscalculia, TD = Typically Developing, SMA = Supplementary Motor Area, IPS = IntraParietal Sulcus, MFG = Middle Frontal Gyrus. Regions significant at height threshold of p < .001, corrected for multiple spatial comparisons at p < .01. Voxel size is 2 mm3.