Table 1.

SMG activation reported in prior studies of phonological decisions and pseudoword reading

Study	Technique	x y z	Mean x y z
Reading aloud visual pseudowords > words
Vigneau et al. (2005)	fMRI	−60 −28 36
		−52 −36 44
Binder et al. (2005)	fMRI	−37 −37 37*	−49 −35 39
		−47 −38 41*
Taylor et al. (2014)a	fMRI	−46 −38 44
Carreiras et al. (2007)	fMRI	nr
Cummine et al. (2013)	fMRI	nr
Fiez et al. (1999)	PET	nr
Herbster et al. (1997)	PET	nr
Mechelli et al. (2000)	fMRI	nr
Rumsey et al. (1997)	PET	nr
Phonological > semantic decisions on visual words
Scott et al. (2003)	PET	−60 −26 39*
Mummery et al. (1998)	PET	−59 −31 38*
Seghier et al. (2004)	fMRI	−55 −35 40*	−52 −35 40
Devlin et al. (2003)	fMRI	−42 −40 46
Price et al. (1997)	PET	−42 −44 36*
Roskies et al. (2001)	PET	nr
Phonological > perceptual decisions on visual words versus letter strings
Xu et al. (2002)	fMRI	−47 −44 33*	−43 −45 37
Seghier et al. (2004)	fMRI	−39 −46 42*
Gitelman et al. (2005)	fMRI	nr

^aExcluded from mean coordinates (because not cluster peak).

The x, y, z coordinates of SMG activation reported in previous fMRI or PET studies of phonological decisions or pseudoword reading that used alphabetic stimuli. No SMG activation was observed when the stimuli were presented in the auditory modality (Shuster 2009) or when reading aloud pseudowords was compared with lexical decisions on pseudowords (Carreiras et al. 2007). When coordinates were given in Talairach space, they were converted to MNI space (*converted from Talairach space using the tal2icbm transformation, Lancaster et al. 2007). nr, no SMG coordinates reported.