Table 1.

The comparison of the activity of the Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas in both hemispheres in the preoperative and postoperative fMRI studies.

fMRI study	Broca’s area					Wernicke’s area
	Left hemisphere		Right hemisphere			Left hemisphere		Right hemisphere
	T	ke	T	ke	LI	T	ke	T	ke	LI
Preoperative	4.83	53	–	–	1	4.39	66	–	–	1
Postoperative 3 months	3.66	7	–	–	1	4.73	22	–	–	1
Postoperative 32 months	7.09	109	6.97	29	0.58	7.9	180	5.90	7	0.93
Postoperative 41 months	4.64	180	4.77	275	−0.21	5.90	244	7.96	450	−0.14

T – values of t-statistics; ke – number of clusters; LI – lateralization index.