Table 3.
Brain activation during reading and word learning: Main fMRI results from AA. All peak values reported were significant at p < .001 (uncorrected) at voxel level, 10 voxels spatial extent. Peak coordinates of each cluster are reported in MNI coordinates.
| Side | Cluster size (voxels) | t value | Peak coordinate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | ||||
| Reading task | ||||||
| (Word + pseudoword) versus false-font | ||||||
| MOG* | L | 1246 | 5.42 | −34 | −90 | −4 |
| MOG* | R | 930 | 4.35 | 48 | −75 | 2 |
| MTG* | R | 742 | 5.21 | 66 | −46 | −8 |
| PG/MFG/IFG* | L | 655 | 4.45 | −46 | 4 | 44 |
| IFG/MFG* | R | 245 | 4.08 | 42 | 20 | 32 |
| FG* | L | 52 | 3.97 | −34 | −44 | −22 |
| SMG* | R | 70 | 3.86 | 48 | −54 | 20 |
| MeFG* | L | 39 | 3.81 | −8 | 44 | 46 |
| Word learning task | ||||||
| Novel word–picture pairs versus rest (whole brain) | ||||||
| MOG* | L | 842 | 6.26 | −46 | −78 | 4 |
| Cuneus* | R | 48 | 4.59 | 22 | −98 | −6 |
| MFG* | L | 63 | 3.86 | −22 | 42 | −8 |
| MTG* | R | 12 | 3.67 | 70 | −40 | −6 |
| Novel word–picture pairs versus rest (hippocampal ROI) | ||||||
| Hippocampus | L | 11 | 3.34 | −34 | −32 | −10 |
FDR-Corrected at peak level (p < .05); MOG, Middle Occipital Gyrus; MTG, Middle Temporal Gyrus; IFG, Inferior Frontal Gyrus; MeFG, Medial Frontal Gyrus; MFG, Middle Frontal Gyrus; PG, Precentral Gyrus; FG, Fusiform Gyrus; SMG, Supramarginal Gyrus.