Table 10.

Peak coordinates of the left OTSm peaks in the current study and the VWFA peak coordinates reported for different writing in other studies

Left OTSm peaks in current study
	Section	Atlas	(x,	y,	z)
1	Cross-section	MNI	(−46,	−46,	−14)
2	Listen	MNI	(−50,	−48,	−14)
3	Speak	MNI	(−42,	−52,	−8)
4	Read	MNI	(−44,	−48,	−12)
5	Write	MNI	(−48,	−48,	−14)
VWFA peaks in other studies
	Writing system	Atlas	(x,	y,	z)
6	Roman alphabeta	Talairach	(−43,	−54,	−12)
		MNI*	(−46,	−53,	−20)
7	Simplified Chinese charactersb	MNI	(−39,	−59,	−12)
8	Roman alphabetc	Talairach	(−52,	−49,	−13)
		MNI*	(−57,	−49,	−22)
9	Roman alphabetd	Talairach	(−45,	−50,	−12)
		MNI*	(−48,	−49,	−20)
10	Roman alphabete	Talairach	(−42,	−60,	−11)
		MNI*	(−44,	−59,	−19)
11	Simplified Chinese charactersf	Talairach	(−49,	−53,	−10)
		MNI*	(−52,	−52,	−18)
12	Roman alphabetg	Talairach	(−45,	−56,	−16)
		MNI*	(−48,	−55,	−24)
13	Roman alphabeth	Talairach	(−44,	−58,	−15)
		MNI*	(−46,	−57,	−23)
14	Japanese kana and kanjii	Talairach	(−43,	−54,	−12)
		MNI*	(−16,	−53,	−20)

MNI* coordinates are converted from their original Talairach coordinates using Bioimage Suite (Lacadie et al., 2008).

^aVWFA coordinates based on readers of Roman-alphabet languages (Cohen et al., 2002).

^bVWFA coordinates based on readers of simplified Chinese (Zhao et al., 2016).

^cVWFA coordinates based on readers of Roman-alphabet languages (Stevens et al., 2017).

^dVWFA coordinates based on readers of Roman-alphabet languages (Hasson et al., 2002).

^eVWFA coordinates based on readers of Roman-alphabet languages (Hasson et al., 2002).

^f-iVWFA coordinates based on readers of Roman-alphabet languages, simplified Chinese, and Japanese kana and kanji (Dehaene and Cohen, 2007).