Table 3. Pearson’s r values for verb-relevant correlations in left ATL.

Correlations in left ATL between the argument-saturated (eats meat) item with (a) an argument-saturated phrases without a verb (with meat), (b) a phrase sharing only a noun, but not composition type or verb (tasty meat), and (c) a phrase sharing a verb but constituting adjunct phrase (eats quickly) without argument saturation. Pairwise comparisons are reported using the best 50, 100, 200, and 500 voxels with highest (unsigned) t-statistics from composition -vs.-noncomposition contrast in left ATL.

	50 voxels	100 voxels	200 voxels	500 voxels
shared noun AND shared composition type (eats meat ~ with meat)	0.030	0.13 *	0.071†	0.026
shared noun (eats meat ~ tasty meat)	0.026	0.088 *	0.052	0.042
shared verb (eats meat ~ eats quickly)	0.027	0.023	0.012	0.037

^†: 0.05<p < 0.1;

^*: p <0.05