Table 2. Activation during poor vs. good blocks of meditation, as verbally reported.

ROIs, main effect for verbal report	L/R	Vol mm3	Talairach coord. x y z	F value (best>worst blocks)
Occipital gyrus/Cuneus/Lingual gyrus	L/R	18930	−30 −81 21/ 7 −80 18	41.5**
ACC/ Middle frontal gyrus	L/R	8790	−3 18 37/33 32 36	19.3**
Paracentral lobule/post. medial frontal gyrus	L/R	6474	−6 −37 58/−1 −8 55	16.4*
Hippocampus/Parahippocampus	L/R	3549	−32 −14 −11	17.4**
Insula/IFG	R	2490	37 −7 12	19.8**
ROIs, interaction verbal report and Group	L/R	Vol mm3	Talairach coord. x y z	F value Novices (best –worst)>Experts (best-worst)
Cuneus/Lingual gyrus	L/R	20164	−7 −92 9/−10 −84 2	31.8**
Brain stem		7328	−2 −18 −25	21.2**
thalamus	L/R	5416	14 −18 15	11.7*
Cerebellum	L/R	3629	14 −15 −62	12.7*

ROIs from a voxel-wise repeated ANOVA with best vs. worst blocks of meditation as within subjects factor and experts vs. novices as between subjects factor (10 novices and 12 experts) (p<0.05, corrected).

^*indicates p<0.005,

^**p<0.0005, X indicates non-significant.