Figure 2a: The time course of signal changes in a voxel in the primary motor cortex during 12 trials of speaking a letter overtly (solid line). For comparison, the time course of signal changes obtained in a voxel from the tongue during the same task by the same subject (dashed line). Note the different scales for activation and motion.

Figure 2b: The average time courses of the BOLD responses and articulatory motion averaging over 12 repeated trials.