Table III.

Summary of the global statistical analysis for the averaged percent signal change for the voxel with the maximal activation and the 26 adjacent voxels in each of the regions showing a significant effect of permutation for the non‐pronominal conditions (N‐OS vs. N‐SO)

Region	COND	P‐SO vs. N‐SO	N‐OS vs. N‐SO	P‐OS vs. N‐SO	COMB vs. N‐SO	COMB vs. P‐OS	COMB vs. N‐OS
L. inferior frontal gyrus (pars opercularis)	9.83c	NS	19.74c	NS	9.84a	6.06a	NS
L. deep frontal operculum/anterior insula	18.64c	NS	55.09c	M (5.53)	22.18c	7.33a	NS
R. inferior frontal gyrus (pars opercularis)	6.91c	NS	19.64c	NS	6.23a	M (5.45)	NS
R. deep frontal operculum/anterior insula	10.92c	NS	27.57c	NS	9.25a	NS	NS
L. frontomedian cortex	7.08c	NS	34.81c	NS	10.29b	NS	NS
L. inferior frontal junction area	12.30c	NS	33.63c	5.63a	16.02b	8.06a	NS
R. inferior frontal sulcus	9.26c	NS	26.97c	NS	9.74a	8.04a	8.94a

Each cell gives the significance level for an effect,, and the F‐value for significant effects. Degrees of freedom were df ₁ = 4, df ₂ = 60 for the global analysis involving the factor COND and df ₁ = 1, df ₂ = 15 for the planned comparisons. The probability levels for the planned comparisons are Bonferroni corrected.

^a P < 0.05;

^b P < 0.01;

^c P < 0.001.

P, pronoun; N, non‐pronominal noun phrase; SO, subject‐before‐object (non‐permuted); OS, object‐before‐subject (permuted); COMB, combined condition, involving the permutation of both a pronoun and a non‐pronominal argument; L., left; R., right; NS, not significant; M, marginal (P < 0.07).