Table 1 Regions of interest based on their correlation between activation during reading and comprehension

From: The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension

Regions of Interest

Abbreviation in Figure 1

Peak

t-value

Peak MNI coordinates

Volume (mm3)

Processes

x

y

z

  

Regions with a Positive Correlation Between Activation and Comprehension

 *Left Inferior Frontal

L IFG

3.36

−39

26

13

9,099

Language Processing

 Left Superior Frontal

L SFG

2.40

−24

−1

73

540

Premotor Processing

 Left Superior Parietal

L SPL

2.24

−24

−49

55

621

Spatial Processing

 Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal

L DLPFC

1.90

−30

47

7

162

Semantic Knowledge Integration

 *Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal

R DLPFC

2.10

24

29

25

216

Semantic Knowledge Integration

 Left Hippocampus

L HC

2.09

−36

−40

−5

594

Episodic Encoding

 *Right Hippocampus

R HC

2.17

33

−31

11

135

Episodic Encoding

Regions with a Negative Correlation Between Activation and Comprehension

 Right Ventromedial Prefrontal

R VMPFC

2.70

6

68

1

436

Episodic Knowledge Integration

 *Left Ventromedial Prefrontal

L VMPFC

2.64

−12

68

−5

459

Episodic Knowledge Integration

 Left Superior Frontal

L SFG

2.09

−24

38

52

216

Episodic Retrieval

 Right Precuneus

R Precuneus

2.47

18

−52

28

918

Episodic Retrieval

 Right Inferior Parietal

R IPL

2.04

60

−58

37

135

Coherence Detection

  1. Entries with an * are the most predictive variables of individual comprehension performance.