A coordinate-based ALE functional MRI meta-analysis of brain activation during verbal fluency tasks in healthy control subjects

Wagner, Stefanie; Sebastian, Alexandra; Lieb, Klaus; Tüscher, Oliver; Tadić, André

doi:10.1186/1471-2202-15-19

Table 1 Studies included in the meta-analysis

From: A coordinate-based ALE functional MRI meta-analysis of brain activation during verbal fluency tasks in healthy control subjects

	First Author	Year	Sex (m/f)	Task	Paradigm	Template	Speech	Presen-tation	System	Threshold	Analysis	N (foci)
1	Abrahams [22]	2003	14/4	p	Overt	Talairach	English	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.005 (uc)	XBAM	18 (22)
2	Bonelli [23]	2011	11/11	p	Covert	MNI	English	Visually	3 T	p < 0.05³⁾	SPM5	22 (4)
3	Brammer [24]	1997		p	Covert	Talairach	English	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.0001 (c)	XBAM	6 (6)
4	Curtis [25]	1998	5/0	p	Covert	Talairach	English	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.001 (c)	XBAM	5 (9)
5	Dye [26]	1999	6/4	p	Overt	Talairach	English	Auditory	PET	p < 0.05 (c)	SPM95	10 (10)
6	Fu¹⁾[27]	2002	11/0	p	Overt	Talairach	English	Visually	1.5 T	p < 0.001 (uc)	XBAM	11 (29)
7	Halari²⁾[5]	2006	9/10	p	Overt	MNI	English	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.05 (c)	SPM99	19 (15)⁷⁾
8	Hutchinson [28]	1999	6/6	p	Overt	Talairach	English	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.05 (c)	SPM96	12 (6)
9	Lurito [29]	2000	2/3	p	Covert	Talairach	English	Visually	1.5 T	corrected		5 (15)
10	Nosarti¹⁾[30]	2009	10/13	p	Overt	Talairach	English	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.001 (uc)	XBAM	28 (4)
11	Okada [31]	2003	8/2	p	Covert	Talairach	Japanese	Visually	1.5 T	p < 0.05 (c)	SPM99	10 (8)
12	Phelps [32]	1997	7/4	p	Overt	Talairach	English	Auditory	2.1 T	p < 0.005⁴⁾		11 (8)
13	Schlösser²⁾[33]	1998	6/6	p	Overt	Talairach	English	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.05 (c)	SPM99	12 (41)⁸⁾
14	Weiss [34]	2003	10/10	p	Covert	Talairach	German	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.001 (uc)	SPM99	20 (8)
15	Weiss [35]	2004	9/0	p	Covert	Talairach	German	Visually	1.5 T	p < 0.001 (uc)	SPM99	9 (8)
16	Audenaert [36]	2000	8/12	p/s	Overt	Talairach	Dutsh	Auditory	PET	p < 0.01 (uc)	SPM96	20 (13)
17	Heim [37]	2008	14/14	p/s	Overt	MNI	German	Visually	3 T	p < 0.05³⁾	SPM5	28 (4)
18	Kircher [38]	2011	15/0	p/s	Overt	Talairach	German	Visually	3 T	p < 0.001⁵⁾	SPM5	15 (27)
19	Meinzer [39]	2009	8/8	p/s	Overt	MNI	German	Visually	1.5 T	p < 0.05⁶⁾	SPM5	16 (14)
20	Meinzer [40]	2012	7/7	p/s	Overt	Talairach	English	Visually	3 T	p < 0.005⁶⁾	SPM5	14 (28)
21	Whitney [41]	2008	18/0	p/s	Overt	Talairach	German	visually	1.5 T	p < 0.05³⁾	SPM 2	18 (30)
22	Amunts [42]	2004	5/5	s	Covert	Talairach	German	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.05 (c)	SPM99	11 (8)
23	Basho [43]	2007	4/8	s	Covert	Talairach	English	Auditory	3 T	p < 0.05⁵⁾	AFNI	12 (6)
24	Gaillard [44]	2003	15/14	s	Covert	Talairach	English	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.0001 (c)	SPM99	29 (14)
25	Gurd [45]	2002	6/5	s	Covert	Talairach	German	Auditory	1.5 T	p < 0.001 (uc)	SPM99	11 (11)
26	Hwang [46]	2009	4/9	s	Overt/covert	Talairach	English	Auditory	3 T	p < 0.05⁵⁾	AFNI	13 (6)
27	Krug [47]	2011	64/32	s	Overt	Talairach	German	Visually	3 T	p < 0.05 (c)	SPM5	91 (5)
28	Ragland [48]	2008	7/6	s	Covert	Talairach	English	Visually	3 T	p < 0.05⁵⁾	SPM2	14 (7)

p: phonemic; s: semantic; uc = uncorrected; c = corrected;¹⁾these studies seperately investigated the activation for easy and hard verbal fluency tasks, coordinates were included for easy tasks only;²⁾these studies seperately investigated the activation of females and males, coordinates were included seperately for males and females;³⁾family wise error rate corrected;⁴⁾ROI;⁵⁾Monte Carlo corrected;⁶⁾false discovery rate corrected;⁷⁾3 foci in females,⁸⁾12 foci in males;⁴⁾23 foci in females, 18 foci in males; MNI: Montreal Neurological Institut.

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