Table 2.
Location of peak activation | Low-imagery condition |
MNI coordinates |
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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.