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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Brain. 2006 Jul 10;129(0 9):2484–2493. doi: 10.1093/brain/awl164

Table 2.

Areas of activation differences between the autism and control groups for the low-imagery condition

Location of peak activation Low-imagery condition
MNI coordinates
Brodmann’s
area
Cluster
size
t(23) x y z
Areas in which control participants showed more activation than autism participants
 L superior frontal gyrus medial 21 21 3.15 −4 28 32
Areas in which autism participants showed more activation than control participants
 L MFG 6 30 3.15 −26 −2 54
 R precentral gyrus 6 48 3.53 44 −8 52
 L superior parietal lobe 7 79 3.68 −20 −56 60
 R superior parietal lobe 5 43 3.62 30 −48 60
 L precuneus 30 41 3.31 0 −50 18
 R precuneus 31 20 3.57 18 −60 24
 L cuneus 25 4.16 −22 −56 22
 R cuneus 7 29 3.19 18 −78 44
 L lingual gyrus 18 73 3.98 −18 −84 −16
 R lingual gyrus 18 60 4.19 20 −88 −10
 R middle occipital gyrus 19 86 4.79 26 −84 16

The threshold for significant activation was P < 0.005 for a spatial extent of at least six voxels, uncorrected for multiple comparisons.

Region labels apply to the entire extent of the cluster. t-Value scores and MNI coordinates are for the peak activated voxel in each cluster only.