Language and Sensory Neural Plasticity in the Superior Temporal Cortex of the Deaf

Table 4

Difference in functional connections with the right STC as a seed region.

Contrast	Brain region	Number of voxels	Peak coordinates			value
			Checkerboard: profoundly deaf versus hearing group	Occipital_Middle_Left	399		−38	−82	0	5.23
Occipital_Middle_Left	318	−24		−94	8	5.21
Cerebellum_Left	40	−32		−60	−48	4.71
ParaHippocampal_Right	15	30		−16	−28	4.38
Cingulum_Middle_Right	58	10		26	32	4.15
Thalamus_Right	35	14		−12	0	3.89
Supplementary_Motor_Right	11	12		18	60	3.73
Cerebellum_Left	28	−30		−58	−24	3.71
Word: (word: profoundly deaf versus hearing groups) versus (checkerboard: profoundly deaf versus hearing)	Frontal_Inferior_Orb_Right	74	54	21	3	6.67
	Temporal_Pole_Superior_Right	54	58	14	−16	6.02
	Temporal_Pole_Superior_Left	49	−40	2	−16	4.95
	Visual_word_form_area_Left	47	−42	−58	−14	4.71
	Occipital_Middle_Right	32	42	−74	14	4.06
	Cingulum_Middle_Right	23	6	4	40	3.88
Sign language: (sign language: profoundly deaf versus hearing groups) versus (checkerboard: profoundly deaf versus hearing)	Occipital_Middle_Left	253	−44	−70	8	5.98
	Occipital_Middle_Right	124	52	−68	6	6.84
	Fusiform_Left	67	−32	−60	−16	4.20
	Fusiform_Right	51	42	−52	−16	5.70
	Temporal_Pole_Superior_Right	44	50	12	−14	5.89
	Temporal_Pole_Superior_Left	19	−44	14	−16	4.13
	Frontal_Inferior_Orb_Left	37	54	21	−6	4.31
	Frontal_Inferior_Orb_Right	30	−48	21	−10	5.83
	Supplementary_Motor_Area	39	6	10	64	4.39
	Parietal_Superior_Left	12	−20	−54	50	4.23
Lip-reading: (lip-reading: profoundly deaf versus hearing groups) versus (checkerboard: profoundly deaf versus hearing)	Fusiform_Left	122	−26	−56	−10	5.45
	Fusiform_Right	146	38	−58	−12	7.85
	Temporal_Pole_Superior_Right	97	58	−2	−10	5.77
	Frontal_Inferior_Tri_Right	43	48	22	18	3.79
	Frontal_Inferior_Orb_Right	21	52	21	20	3.53
	Precentral_Left	19	−44	−6	−48	4.25
	Precentral_Right	22	52	4	46	6.87
	Supplementary_Motor_Area	13	−4	6	60	5.13

Note: peak coordinates refer to stereotactic coordinates in MNI space; , FDR corrected.