Table 4. Local minima of brain deactivations within limbic, basal ganglia, insula, and heteromodal sensory regions during improvisation.

Region	BA	Left Hemisphere				Right Hemisphere
		t-score	x	y	z	t-score	x	y	z
Limbic/Paralimbic
Hypothalamus	-	−8.51	−11	−6	−9	−11.12	9	−6	−6
Amygdala	-	−14.64	−24	0	−18	−7.205	28	−1	−16
HPC/PHPC-ventral	-	-	-	-	-	−12.49	27	−24	−18
HPC/PHPC-dorsal	-	−9.71	−24	−36	−3	−10.06	15	−42	3
PHPC gyrus	35,36	−13.08	−36	−27	−21	−11.34	24	−27	−24
Posterior cingulate	23,31	−13.92	−3	−51	24	−18.14	3	−57	30
Temporal polar	38,20	−14.27	−30	3	−24	−12.99	33	0	−39
Basal ganglia
Ventral striatum	-	−15.41	−30	−12	−9	−13.12	27	6	−9
Caudate	-	−7.03	−12	15	11	−10.37	9	15	3
Putamen	-	−6.61	−29	−3	6	−10.76	27	−15	6
Insula
Ant insula/pyriform cortex	-	−6.61	−33	15	−11	−10.86	33	15	12
Mid Insula	-	−6.38	−33	4	13	−11.11	33	0	12
Post Insula	-	−12.85	−33	−24	9	−6.02	42	−11	7
Heteromodal sensory
Posterior STS	21	−17.77	−51	−57	18
Angular gyrus	39	−17.12	−45	−69	30	−9.98	51	−54	24

All coordinates are described according to the Montreal Neurological Institute system, and were obtained through a conjunction analysis of data from ScaleImprov and JazzImprov. Abbreviations: HPC, hippocampal cortex; PHPC, parahippocampal cortex; Ant, anterior; Post, posterior; STS, superior temporal sulcus