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Table 4 Regions with significant activation during semantic verbal fluency tasks

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

Cluster

Anatomic label

Volume (mm3)

BA

x

y

z

ALE 10-3

N studies (foci)

1.

Left limbic lobe. Anterior cingulate gyrus

3312

32

-4

24

38

29.04

10 (12)

8

0

26

52

11.50

Left frontal lobe. Superior frontal gyrus

6

-2

14

58

8.93

Left frontal lobe. Medial frontal gyrus

6

-6

12

54

8.86

2.

Left frontal lobe. Inferior frontal gyrus

2256

45

-52

22

20

17.42

6 (8)

9

-54

16

32

14.61

3.

Left frontal lobe. Sub-gyral

1336

6

-24

6

52

17.69

5 (5)

4.

Left frontal lobe. Inferior frontal gyrus

1192

47

-32

24

-10

14.72

5 (5)

Left claustrum

  

-34

20

-4

12.57

 

5.

Left frontal lobe. Inferior frontal gyrus

840

47

-50

16

-2

14.58

4 (4)

-50

24

-12

10.13

-46

24

-6

9.79

6.

Left thalamus

784

 

-16

-2

12

17.71

3 (3)

7.

Left parietal lobe. Precuneus

728

7

-30

-68

48

16.48

3 (3)

  1. N: number of studies reporting at least one activation peak; Coodinates: MNI Space; mm3: cubic millimeter; BA: Brodman Area.