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From: Mapping the brain's orchestration during speech comprehension: task-specific facilitation of regional synchrony in neural networks

Figure 3

Topography of coherence measure in source space (averages of 12 subjects). A: Asymmetry of intra-hemispheric coherence measures as indicated by the Laterality Index (all left- minus all right-intra-hemispheric coherence values divided by their sum) for the five conditions. Positive values indicate left-lateralized coherence and negative values indicate right-lateralized coherence. T-bars represent the standard error of the mean). Tone = 600 Hz tone, NoComp = incomprehensible word string, Comp = word string after comprehension as sentence, T.seq= melody-like sequence of tones, Scale = tone scale. B: Difference-maps and t-maps of the coherence values comparing the two verbal conditions (Comp minus NoComp). Maps are shown in 110° top view and are spherical spline interpolated; nose indicated by triangle. The left graphs show the coherence between the area of the left auditory cortex and all 77 dipole-locations (left cortical input), the right graphs display the coherence between the area of the right auditory cortex and all 77 dipole-locations (right cortical input). For difference-maps, each contour-line represents a step of 0.025, without units. Pink and red colours illustrate higher coherence values after sentence comprehension (Comp>NoComp), grey and black colours illustrate higher coherence values for the incomprehensible word string (Comp<NoComp). For t-maps, significant differences are shown at the 5% level in red (Comp>NoComp) and black (Comp<NoComp).

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