Fig. 2.

Relation of auditory naming and picture naming fMRI activations to out-of-scanner clinical naming performance across all three groups (left TLE, right TLE, controls). Activations are shown superimposed on coronal and sagittal images at p < 0.001, uncorrected and the crosshair indicates the orthogonal slices. Better clinical naming performance (left column) was associated with stronger activations in the left posterior inferior temporal gyrus during auditory naming (upper row), and in the left fusiform gyrus during picture naming (lower row). Worse clinical naming performance (right column) was related to weaker deactivation of the right superior frontal gyrus during both auditory naming and picture naming. Scatterplots show correlations of fMRI parameter estimate with naming scores (left TLE: red; right TLE: green; controls: blue). A anterior, L left, P posterior, R right, TLE temporal lobe epilepsy