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. 2011 Aug 8;33(10):2306–2321. doi: 10.1002/hbm.21363

Table IV.

Review of main activation peaks observed in the sensorimotor motor cortex during simple articulatory gestures in previous fMRI studies. x,y,z coordinates are reported in MNI space

> Left hemisphere Right hemisphere
Lips Jaw Larynx Tongue Lips Jaw Larynx Tongue
Reference x y z x y z x y z x y z x y z x y z x y z x y z
Corfield et al. (1999)*—horizontal tongue movement −63 −7 24 64 −5 19
Lotze et al. (2000a)*—lip pursing, vertical tongue movement −53 −18 40 −53 0 35 55 −8 41 67 −3 26
Lotze et al. (2000b)*—lip pursing −59 −16 43 53 −10 39
Riecker et al. (2000)—horizontal tongue movement −63 −3 30 57 −3 24
Stippich et al. (2002)*—vertical tongue movement −54 −12 34 53 −8 34
Fesl et al. (2003)*—horizontal tongue movement −63 −8 37 67 −8 32
Gerardin et al. (2003)*—lip pursing −58 −15 45 61 −9 52
Shinagawa et al. (2003)*—tongue protrusion −48 −14 34 51 −8 37
Shinagawa et al. (2003)*—right tongue movement −48 −14 36 51 −8 37
Shinagawa et al. (2003)*—left tongue movement −48 −14 38 59 −1 24
Hesselmann et al. (2004)*—lip pursing, horizontal tongue movement −41 −21 44 −55 −12 27 53 −21 49 58 −13 30
Hanakawa et al. (2005)*—unilateral lip stretching −54 −8 41 57 −3 40
Pulvermüller et al. (2006)—up/down tongue or lip movement −48 −10 36 −56 −8 28
Terumitsu et al. (2006)—tongue movements and vowel phonation −40 −19 42 −55 −8 32 51 −11 38 59 −6 30
−56 −3 21
Vincent et al. (2006)*—horizontal/vertical tongue movement 61 −1 26
Brown et al. (2008)*—lip protrusion and vertical tongue movement −52 −14 36 −64 −12 30 58 −12 34 58 −14 34
Brown et al. (2008)*—glottal stops −38 −16 34 44 −12 36
Brown et al. (2008)*—vowel phonation −40 −12 32 44 −10 36
Stippich et al. (2008)*—vertical tongue movement −54 −16 41 54 −11 39
Mean coordinates −52 −15 41 −44 −13 32 −55 −10 34 56 −11 43 46 −11 37 58 −7 31

(*)If originally reported in Talairach space, coordinates were converted in MNI space using the Talairach Daemon software (Lancaster et al., 2000) and a nonlinear transformation originally described by Matthew Brett (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/mnispace.html).