The Elusive Role of the Left Temporal Pole (BA38) in Language: A Preliminary Meta-Analytic Connectivity Study

Table 1

Primary studies of language-related paradigms included in the meta-analysis (11 studies; 12 paradigms; 201 subjects).

Publication	Paradigm		Foci
Noppeney and Price, 2004 [43]	Abstract Concepts > Sounds	15	4
Kensinger and Schacter, 2006 [44]	Items Corresponding Subseq Item	21	6
Ghosh et al., 2008 [45]	Bisyllables > Monosyllables	10	38
Leff et al., 2008 [46]	(Idioms + Rearranged Idioms)	26	3
Simmons et al., 2008 [47]	Situation Generation > Word Assoc	10	23
	Word generation	10	26
Benoit et al., 2010 [48]	Incongruent Non-McGurk—Incongruent	16	12
Binder et al., 2005 [49]	Correlation Reading Activ & RespTime	24	42
Lieberman et al., 2007 [50]	Gender Labeling > Affect Labeling	30	14
Sabsevitz et al., 2005 [51]	Abstract > Concrete	28	10
Nil et al., 2008 [52]	Listen minus Baseline	15	5
Kensinger and Schacter, 2005 [53]	Emotional Word-Only Identification	16	14