The Right Hemisphere Planum Temporale Supports Enhanced Visual Motion Detection Ability in Deaf People: Evidence from Cortical Thickness

Table 1

Dataset for testing the correlation between cortical thickness and visual motion detection thresholds, controlling for participant age.

Participant	Age (years)	Motion detection threshold (deg./s)	Mean cortical thickness (mm)
			Left hemisphere				Right hemisphere
			CS	MT+	HGS	PTR	CS	MT+	HGS	PTR
1	30	0.23	2.23	2.33	2.83	2.5	2.19	2.45	2.84	2.72
2	26	0.17	1.98	2.34	2.5	2.47	2.06	2.49	2.57	2.72
3	24	0.20	1.85	2.39	2.53	2.28	1.88	2.52	2.37	2.55
4	23	0.25	2.04	2.32	2.79	2.39	2.03	2.46	2.24	2.44
5	34	0.15	2.04	2.28	2.53	2.26	2.21	2.26	2.54	2.56
6	21	0.18	2.03	2.30	2.62	2.41	1.98	2.36	2.54	2.84
7	32	0.15	1.97	2.31	2.55	2.44	2.08	2.43	2.75	2.96
8	25	0.13	1.97	2.45	2.68	2.4	2.15	2.40	3.17	2.99
9	25	0.17	2.04	2.50	2.85	2.58	2.33	2.53	2.78	2.95
10	37	0.14	1.76	2.36	2.55	2.48	2.03	2.35	2.61	2.62
11	33	0.16	1.96	2.21	2.49	2.35	2.14	2.35	2.44	2.62

CS, calcarine sulcus; MT+, middle temporal area; HGS, Heschl’s gyrus and sulcus; PTR, planum temporale region.