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Table 1 Brain areas with significant gray matter correlations (p < .001 uncorrected) with each intelligence factor (all correlations are positive except for the Memory factor)*

From: Gray matter correlates of cognitive ability tests used for vocational guidance

Factor Name

B A

Region Name

x

y

z

Z

Cluster

FDR

g-factor (+)

BA 9

Middle Frontal Gyrus

-36

23

30

4.02

165

 
  

Substania Nigra

12

-22

-7

3.17

272

 

Speed of Reasoning (+)

BA 37

Sub-Gyral

48

-45

-5

3.47

895

 
 

BA 47

Inf. Frontal Gyrus

-50

42

-16

3.08

35

 
 

BA 10

Inf. Frontal Gyrus

57

41

-2

3.07

66

 
 

BA 38

Sup. Temporal Gyrus

-42

5

-17

3.03

416

 
 

BA 31

Posterior Cingulate

-24

-63

14

3.03

700

 
 

BA 18

Lingual Gyrus

30

-74

-8

2.97

147

 
  

Inf. Semi-Lunar Lob.

6

-65

-49

3.59

598

 

Numerical Factor (+)

BA 18

Mid. Occipital Gyrus

26

-81

6

3.16

76

 
 

BA 24

Cingulate Gyrus

-12

2

31

3.03

33

 

Spatial Factor (+)

BA 8

Mid. Frontal Gyrus

-30

14

40

3.64

186

 
  

Lat. Geniculum Body

-26

-23

-2

3.03

178

 

Memory Factor (-)

BA 17

Cuneus

24

-91

1

4.29

12,856

.025

 

BA 19

Mid. Occipital Gyrus

28

-81

15

4.21

 

.025

 

BA 18

Lingual Gyrus

14

-68

5

4.21

 

.025

 

BA 31

Cingulate Gyrus

20

-47

23

3.66

136

.025

 

BA 37

Sub-Gyral

-50

-45

-8

3.52

371

.025

 

BA 47

Inf. Frontal Gyrus

-50

38

-17

3.51

196

.028

 

BA 32

Anterior Cingulate

10

30

-12

3.46

5,131

.030

 

BA 11

Sup. Frontal Gyrus

-16

54

-15

3.30

 

.037

 

BA 11

Med. Frontal Gyrus

-6

61

-17

3.28

 

.037

 

BA 21

Mid. Temporal Gyrus

-44

2

-34

3.27

737

.038

 

BA 38

Sup. Temporal Gyrus

-34

6

-27

3.03

  
 

BA 3

Postcentral Gyrus

57

-18

29

2.74

  
 

BA 10

Mid. Frontal Gyrus

-30

52

1

3.13

140

.046

 

BA 46

Inf. Frontal Gyrus

55

43

2

3.11

104

.048

 

BA 43

Postcentral Gyrus

69

-9

17

2.98

136

 
  

Thalamus

-24

-23

1

3.01

752

 
  

Thalamus

-16

-31

2

2.98

  
  1. * BA is Brodmann Area, Talairach x, y, z co-ordinates; positive × values are in right hemisphere; Z is z-score; cluster size is number of voxels (blank entry denotes part of previous cluster); FDR is False Discovery Rate (blank entry denotes not significant p < .05).