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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cortex. 2013 Oct 24;50:174–191. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.10.003

Table 4.

Brain activation during reading and word learning: Main fMRI results from the controls. 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
x y Z

Reading task
(Word + pseudoword)versus false-font
 MOG* R 998 21.60 20 −92 −6
 MOG/LG* L 1660 21.20 −24 −86 14
 PG/MFG* L 14 7.77 −50 14 46
 PG/MFG* R 64 7.50 54 2 44
 SPL* L 30 7.40 −26 −54 46
Word learning task
Novel word–picture pairs versus rest (whole brain)
 L FG/R MOG/L MOG* L 7825 38.54 −42 −66 −14
L 27.83 −26 −84 16
R 25.79 36 −78 −16
 PG/MFG* L 146 16.25 −50 0 40
 IFO* L 30 12.55 −40 48 −16
 PG/MFG* R 146 10.05 38 8 62
 FG* L 119 8.35 −34 −36 −26
 MFO* R 22 8.13 24 46 −20
 SPL* L 45 7.13 −36 −52 50
Novel word–picture pairs versus rest (hippocampal ROI)
 Hippocampus* L 10 8.79 −18 −28 −6
 Hippocampus* L 13 7.20 −30 −20 −14
 Hippocampus* R 14 6.93 26 −34 2
*,

FDR-Corrected at peak level (p < .05); PG, Precentral Gyrus; MOG, Middle Occipital Gyrus; MFG, Middle Frontal Gyrus; LG Lingual Gyrus; SPL, Superior Parietal Lobe; IFO Inferior Fronto-Orbital Gyrus. FG, Fusiform Gyrus; MFO Middle Fronto-Orbital Gyrus.