Table 5.
Brain areas showing a correlation between the general belief in self-control and the differential effect (self > external) during painful stimulation (p < 0.001 uncorrected)
| Brain region | Laterality | Brodmann area | MNI coordinates |
Cluster size (voxel) | Z score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||||
| alPFC | R | 46 | 36 | 48 | 21 | 65 | 4.62 |
| R | 46 | 33 | 57 | 15 | 4.14 | ||
| Premotor cortex | R | 8 | 24 | 18 | 60 | 4 | 4.21 |
| Occipital lobe | L | 18 | −15 | −96 | 0 | 1 | 3.73 |
| L | 19 | −45 | −72 | −21 | 2 | 3.64 | |
| R | 37 | 42 | −72 | 9 | 1 | 3.15 | |
| MI | L | 4 | −6 | −18 | 69 | 3 | 3.46 |
| SMA | R | 6 | 27 | −21 | 63 | 5 | 3.33 |
| Posterior parietal lobe | R | 7 | 15 | −66 | 66 | 1 | 3.28 |
| Posterior ACC | L | 23 | −6 | −24 | 33 | 2 | 3.22 |
| Thalamus | L | −12 | −27 | 9 | 1 | 3.18 | |
L, Left; R, right; DMPFC, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex; MI, primary motor cortex; SMA, supplementary motor area. p < 0.001 uncorrected at voxel level; voxel size, 2 × 2 × 2 mm.