Table 5 Maxima of brain regions (MNI coordinates) for the increased neural activity for complex sentence processing (AVOS > SVAO) with longer hearing aid experience (i.e., years of hearing aid use); R = Right; Family-Wise Error corrected on the cluster level, threshold of p < 0.05).

From: Effects of age-related hearing loss and hearing aid experience on sentence processing

Peak coord. (x, y, z)

Z value

Cluster size

Brain region

(2, − 62, − 10)

4.69

362

Cerebellar vermal lobules I-V

(14, − 66, − 18)

4.02

 

R cerebellum exterior

(24, − 68, − 20)

3.70

 

R cerebellum exterior

(16, − 26, 68)

4.50

469

R precentral gyrus

(18, − 40, 72)

4.05

 

R postcentral gyrus

(32, − 32, 64)

3.89

 

R postcentral gyrus

(42, − 10, 14)

4.50

172

R central operculum

(36, − 20, 20)

4.07

 

R parietal operculum

(52, − 4, 4)

3.88

 

R central operculum

(8, − 54, 16)

4.43

271

R posterior cingulate cortex

(12, − 64, 14)

4.14

 

R calcarine cortex

(20, − 66, 14)

3.82

  

(38, − 82, 12)

3.60

114

R middle occipital gyrus

(40, − 74, 14)

3.55

  

(44, − 58, 14)

3.46

 

R angular gryus