Table 3.

Differences in auditory cortex activation (extent in number of suprathreshold voxels and amplitude as estimated by the β value of the cluster mean) across groups

SZ PAT: Talairach coord.(no. of voxels; β value)REL: Talairach coord.(no. of voxels; β value)CON: Talairach coord.(no. of voxels; β value)Significance of contrastsfor β values
Left auditory cortex−50, −16, 5 (1145; 0.55)−46, −21, 8 (4718; 0.63)−46, −18, 8 (5758; 0.72)F(2,44) = 8.72, p = 0.01
PAT/REL: p = 0.01
CON/REL: p = 0.05
PAT/CON: p = 0.04
Right auditory cortex49, −13, 6 (879; 0.55)51, −13, 8 (2100; 0.81)50, −10, 7 (3021; 0.87)F(2,44) = 4.98, p = 0.01
Interaction group × hemisphere: F(2,44) = 13.94, p < 0.01
PAT/REL: p = 0.04
PAT/CON: p = 0.03
REL/CON: n.s.
Left HG−49, −19, 8; (343; 0.56)−49, −18, 3 (1609; 0.76)−48, −25, 8 (4584; 0.81)F(2,43) = 4.04, p = 0.025
PAT/REL: p = 0.01
PAT /CON: p = 0.03
REL/CON: n.s.
Right HG52, −9, 5 (432; 0.58)50, −12, 0 (862; 0.66)−52, 14, 5 (2313; 0.79)F(2,44) = 3.28, p = 0.04
PAT/REL: n.s.
PAT/CON: p = 0.04
REL/CON: n.s.
Left PT−52, −21, 9 (954; 0.48)−48, −20, 3 (1938; 0.55)−48, −26, 8 (4261; 0.77)F(2,44) = 9.66, p < 0.01
PAT/REL: n.s.
PAT/CON: p < 0.01
REL/CON: p < 0.01
Right PT58, −18, 4 (688; 0.54)52, −21, 3 (1313; 0.73)54, −20, 6 (2649; 0.85)F(2,44) = 5.22, p < 0.01
Hemisphere: F(2,44) = 10.79, p < 0.01
PAT/REL: n.s.
PAT/CON: p = 0.01
REL/CON: n.s.
  • PAT, Patients; REL, relatives; CON, controls; coord., coordinates. The right column reports the ANOVA on the β values.