Tables 5.

T-values, MNI coordinates and corresponding Brodman areas (BA) of highest activated voxels within two pre-defined brain ROIs, the extended etxrastriate cortex and amygdala, respectively. Upper panel: ROI sub-regions showing stronger activation during reading of emotional (pleasant and unpleasant) versus neutral adjectives. Middle panel: ROI sub-regions showing stronger activation during reading of pleasant versus neutral adjectives. Bottom panel: ROI sub-regions showing stronger activation during reading of pleasant versus unpleasant adjectives.

Hemisphere	Brain regions of interest	Brodman area (BA)	T–value	Coordinates x, y, z MNI	Cluster
Emotional adjectives > neutral adjectives
	Extrastriate ROI
Left	Occipital lobe
	Extrastriate cortex	BA 18/19	6.15	−18 −98 −2	198**
	Inferior temporal lobe
Left	Inferior temporal gyrus	BA 20	3.20	−38 −10 −28	3
	Fusiform gyrus	BA 20	3.13	−38 −12 −26	8
	Amygdalar ROI
Left	Amygdala		4.14	−20 −2 −24	25**
Pleasant adjectives > neutral adjectives
	Extrastriate ROI
	Occipital lobe	BA18/19	5.25	−20 −98 −4	311**
Left	Extrastriate cortex
	Inferior temporal lobe
Left	Inferior temporal gyrus	BA 20	4.19	−36 −8 −26	18
	Fusiform gyrus	BA 19	3.77	−42 −68 −16	43*
	Amygdalar ROI
Left	Amygdala		4.77	−20 −2 −24	20**
Pleasant adjectives > unpleasant adjectives
	Extrastriate ROI Occipital lobe
Left	Extrastriate cortex	BA 19	4.37	−46 −74 −6	73**
	Amygdalar ROI
Left	Amygdala		3.25	−18 2 −22	6*

^aROI-effects characterized by a significant increase (after small volume correction ∼ SVC) during reading emotional adjectives compared to reading neutral adjectives. ^bComparison of reading pleasant with reading neutral adjectives. ^cComparision of reading pleasant with reading unpleasant adjectives. Asterixes (** and *) indicate that effects are significant at cluster level corresponding to **P < 0.005 and *P < 0.05 corrected for multiple comparison within small volumes (SVC) in each of the two ROIs. Because the extra-striate ROI comprised several different anatomical structures, the locations of clusters of significant activity within this ROI are further detailed in the tables. SVC was applied across all voxels of the ROIs, separately for the amygdala and the extra-striate ROI. ROI analysis did not reveal any supra-threshold activity for the contrasts unpleasant > neutral, unpleasant > pleasant, neutral > pleasant or neutral > unpleasant.