Table 4. T-tests of differences between verb- or noun-based correlations in left ATL (p-values reported).

T-tests of pairwise differences between verb-sharing phrase correlations, noun-sharing phrase correlations, and noun+composition phrase correlations using the best 50, 100, 200, and 500 voxels with highest (unsigned) t-statistics from composition -vs.-non-composition contrast in left ATL. Correlations being contrasted are those between the argument-saturated verb phrase “eats meat” and those phrases delineated in Table 3 of Appendix.

	50 voxels	100 voxels	200 voxels	500 voxels
shared verb vs. shared noun	0.96 ns	0.041 *	0.27 ns	0.92 ns
shared verb vs. shared noun +composition	0.91 ns	0.0050 *	0.13 ns	0.66 ns
shared noun vs. shared noun + composition	0.91 ns	0.13 ns	0.74 ns	0.62 ns

^†: 0.05<p < 0.1;

^*: p <0.05