Fig. 6.

The candidate language network is selectively activated during a language task contrast. Left: the networks defined by intrinsic functional connectivity from Fig. 4 are replotted. The candidate language network (LANG) is shown in yellow, with the salience network (SAL) in green, the frontoparietal control networks (FPN-A and FPN-B) in blue, and the default networks (DN-A and DN-B) in red. Middle: task activation for the contrast of reading sentences vs. reading lists of nonwords (sentences > non-words) is shown, with the intrinsic LANG network outline in black (see Fig. 5 for other views). Right: bar graphs show the mean β-values for the sentences > nonwords contrast, averaged within each within-individual a priori-defined network, along with the standard error of the mean. Despite differences across individuals, LANG was the only network showing consistently higher activation for sentences > non-words, showed the highest activation of all networks in all participants, and in some cases (S2, S4, and S7) was the only network that showed clear increased activity in the task contrast.