Table 1.

Brain regions showing a significant decrease in BOLD activity correlated with sentence-length and paragraph-length text correlations

Anatomical regionMNI coordinates (mm)t value
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Sentence length (NSME)
R-insula (BA13)500-107.09
R-inferior frontal gyrus (BA47)461624.61
R-cingulate gyrus (BA32)1024385.90
L-cingulate gyrus (BA32)-1024425.22
L-insula (BA13)-302065.24
Paragraph length (NSME)
L-hippocampus/parahippocampal gyrus (BA36)-22-40-26.18
R-precuneus/cingulate gyrus (BA31)22-56306.03
R-intraparietal sulcus (BA7)30-72384.76
  • p < 0.001 (uncorrected) with a cluster-wise FDR of p < 0.05.