An fMRI study of concreteness effects in spoken word recognition

Table 3 Whole brain regions showing significant BOLD peak activation

Contrast	Structure	x	y	z	Volume	Z-score
Concrete > Pseudoword	Right precuneus	7	-50	47	6101	6.14
	Right hippocampus	32	-32	-7	609	4.93
	Left MFG	-32	25	54	341	4.49
	Left ITG	-54	-14	-25	105	4.26
Abstract > Pseudoword	Left MTG	-54	-58	18	82	4.37
	Right SMG	50	-40	32	62	4.04
	Right precuneus	14	-50	32	58	3.86
Concrete > Abstract	Right mid occipital g	40	-65	29	85	4.89
	Left IPC (PGP)¹	-47	-76	29	141	4.53
	Left calcarine g	-7	-58	7	349	4.47
	Left fusiform	-22	-36	-18	51	4.47
	Right MFG	25	22	40	53	4.16

Peak activations for whole brain analyses for all participants in each condition (p < 0.001 probability threshold and 45 voxel cluster threshold). MFG = middle frontal gyrus, ITG = inferior temporal gyrus, MTG = middle temporal gyrus, SMG = supramarginal gyrus, g = gyrus.
¹See Caspers et al.[74] for details of this area.

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