Table 4.
Functional impairments after damage to the TMS-guided SMG or pOp regions
| Measure | SMG | pOp | Control | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 10 | n = 25 | n = 100 | ||
| Phonological (non-word reading and digit span) | Number of patients imp (not) | 9 (1) | 20 (5) | 15 (85) |
| Mean score across group | 46.9 | 47.1 | 57.5 | |
| SD | 5.5 | 6.3 | 7.3 | |
| Writing heard words (Writ-HW) | Number of patients imp (not) | 7 (3) | 20 (5) | 34 (65)a |
| Mean score across group | 52.8 | 52.1 | 60.1 | |
| SD | 9.3 | 8.2 | 7.2 | |
| Visual word-to-picture matching (VW-P) | Number of patients imp (not) | 5 (5) | 17 (8) | 28 (72) |
| Mean score across group | 54.9 | 52.4 | 58.1 | |
| SD | 7.0 | 6.4 | 6.7 | |
| Auditory word-to-picture matching (AW-P) | Number of patients imp (not) | 5 (5) | 10 (15) | 12 (88) |
| Mean score across group | 53.6 | 53.4 | 58.3 | |
| SD | 8.1 | 6.4 | 5.8 | |
| Semantic associations (Sem-A) | Number of patients imp (not) | 1 (7)a | 2 (22)a | 7 (90)a |
| Mean score across group | 56.4 | 56.3 | 57.0 | |
| SD | 7.3 | 5.9 | 5.5 | |
All data are from Sample 1. The table shows the numbers of patients who had impairments (or did not meet the criteria for impairments) on five different measures that differentially require phonological and semantic processing. imp = patients with impaired phonological scores; not = patients who did not meet our criteria for phonological impairments. aMissing scores: one control for Writ-HW, and two SMG, one pOp and three controls for the Sem-A task.