Figure 4.

Near Miss by Control Interaction in Rostral ACC

(A) The interactive effect of near-misses and personal control was associated with signal change in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC, Brodmann Area 24). The contrast image shown was restricted to near-miss outcomes that passed through the payline, compared to full-misses, using a mask of win-related activity (mask thresholded at p_FWE-corr < 0.05). For display purposes, the contrast map is thresholded at p < 0.001 uncorrected.

(B) Extracted signal change from this cluster (averaged across all suprathreshold voxels using Marsbar) reveals that rACC activity was greater for near-misses (compared to full-misses) on participant-chosen trials (p = 0.005) but was lower for near-misses (compared to full-misses) on computer-chosen trials (p = 0.058).

Error bars indicate standard error of the mean.