Fig 1.
Overview of the experimental paradigm.
Three experimental tasks and one control task were featured. One cycle of blocks is illustrated. Six such cycles were administered.
Table 1.
Overview of behavioral results.
Fig 2.
Activation maps of the Arabic digit comparison task.
The task was contrasted with the control condition (p < 0.01 FWE).
Table 2.
Clusters identified in the Arabic > control contrast (FWE-corrected p < 0.01).
Fig 3.
VNFA cluster activity and response magnitudes.
(A) Slices illustrate VNFA cluster activity at z = -17 across conditions (p < 0.05 FWE). (B) Average parameter estimates for this cluster across conditions.
Fig 4.
Activation maps of the verbal number comparison task.
The task was contrasted with the control condition (p < 0.01 FWE).
Table 3.
Clusters identified in the verbal > control contrast (FWE-corrected p < 0.01).
Fig 5.
MTG cluster activity and response magnitudes.
(A) Slices illustrate MTG cluster activity at z = 20 across conditions (p < 0.05 FWE). (B) Average parameter estimates for this cluster across conditions.
Fig 6.
Activation maps of the nonsymbolic magnitude comparison task.
The task was contrasted with the control condition (p < 0.01 FWE).
Table 4.
Clusters identified in the nonsymbolic > control contrast (FWE-corrected p < 0.01).
Fig 7.
Activation maps of each parametric task contrast.
All contrasts were thresholded at p < 0.001 uncorrected. Slices range from z = 35 to z = 41. (A) Arabic digit comparison task. (B) Verbal number comparison task. (C) Nonsymbolic magnitude comparison task.
Table 5.
Clusters identified in the parametric [Close > Distant] contrasts (uncorrected p < 0.001).
Table 6.
Overlapping clusters identified in the conjunction task–control analysis (FWE-corrected p < 0.05).
Table 7.
Overlapping clusters identified in the conjunction [Close > Distant] analysis (FWE-corrected p < 0.05).
Fig 8.
Overlapping activations across all tasks.
(A) Conjunction analysis of all task–control contrasts (p < 0.05 FWE). (B) Conjunction analysis of parametric contrasts across all three tasks (p < 0.05 FWE).