Table 2.

Descriptive and inferential statistics for the numbers of activated voxels and laterality index in each ROI: inferior frontal (IF), inferior parietal (IP), lateral temporal (LT), and ventral temporal (VT).

Variables	Blocked Mean (SD)	Event-Related Mean (SD)	Statistical Result	p
Left Hemisphere
IF	142.0 (86.7)	78.6 (67.1)	Z = 2.44	.015*
IP	33.4 (46.5)	24.3 (31.2)	Z = 0.58	.559
LT	153.8 (126.2)	65.0 (67.5)	F(1, 31.3) = 8.16	.008**
VT	127.0 (84.5)	34.2 (39.6)	F(1, 28.1) = 21	< .001***
Right Hemisphere
IF	68.3 (80.8)	20.6 (27.1)	F(1, 24.3) = 6.62	.017*
IP	23.8 (34.8)	8.7 (16.9)	Z = 2.4	.017*
LT	58.3 (57.1)	25.5 (43.7)	Z = 2.4	.016*
VT	25.1 (28.1)	1.1 (2.5)	F(1, 20.3) = 15.21	< .001***
Laterality Index
IF	0.45 (0.37)	0.53 (0.47)	Z = −0.89	.375
IP	0.15 (0.48)	0.45 (0.40)	Z = −2.01	.045*
LT	0.32 (0.24)	0.50 (0.41)	F(1, 35.7) = 0.27	.608
VT	0.68 (0.29)	0.66 (0.38)	Z = −0.05	.961

Note: In the column of statistical result, Z value is the result of Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test, and F value is the result of Welch U test.

^***< .001;

^**< .01;

^*< .05