Table 1 Theory of mind brain regions preferentially respond to mental-state stories.

Region	Peak coord	Peak t	N voxels	p_combo	w_combo
L temporoparietal junction	[−58, −56, 20]	9.01	4229	0.0004	8.82
	[−50, −60, 16]	8.50
	[−56, −22, −8]	7.73
Precuneus	[0 −54 34]	8.88	1535	0.0004	8.82
Precuneus	[−10, −50, 34]	7.69	1535	0.0004	8.82
R temporoparietal junction	[56, −50, 18]	7.98	3656	0.0004	8.82
	[48, −30, −4]	7.66
	[50, −16, −14]	7.28
Medial prefrontal cortex	[−2, 58, 26]	6.03	893	0.0016	7.73
	[4, 52, 18]	5.81
	[−16, 58, 30]	4.95

A whole-brain random effects analysis conducted on all participants (n = 60 children and adults) confirmed that bilateral temporoparietal junction, medial prefrontal cortex, and precuneus were recruited for the Mental >Physical ASL stories contrast (one-sample t test, P < 0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons using permutation analyses in SnPM5). Peak coord provides MNI coordinates [x, y, z] for the peak t statistic(s) of contiguous clusters. Peak t provides the t-value per peak t statistic per contiguous cluster. N voxels provide the number of significant voxels per contiguous cluster. p_combo provides the corrected P-value using a combination of cluster size and voxel-wise t-value; w_combo provides the combined cluster and voxel test statistic. Bold rows indicate peak clusters per region.

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