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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 24.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2009 Feb 3;164(1):16–29. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.01.056

TABLE 4. Brain regions active during performance of the flanker task.

Anatomical locations of significant clusters for main effects of fMRI BOLD activation during the flanker task.

congruent incongruent interference (incongruent-congruent)
Anatomical location side MNI coord’s
Z score MNI coord’s
Z score MNI coord’s
Z score
x y z x y z x y z
Cerebellum L -30 -45 -24 4.03 -27 -48 -27 4.71 -39 -57 -27 3.42
M -3 -51 -15 5.24 6 -45 -15 6.13 12 -72 -27 3.78
R 36 -51 -30 5.58 33 -51 -30 6.21 30 -69 -27 3.62
Occipital/Temporal L -27 -90 0 Inf. -27 -90 0 Inf. -36 -84 3 7.05
R 33 -81 -9 6.92 45 -69 -9 Inf. 33 -81 3 5.10
Cuneus L
R
Parietal L -39 -30 51 5.59 -42 -33 48 6.51 -30 -72 39 7.00
R 45 -36 42 6.14 33 -42 45 7.18 24 -69 33 6.62
Motor Cortex L -36 -18 51 5.07 -36 -18 51 5.30
R 39 -18 57 4.39 33 -15 60 5.09
SMA L -6 0 51 5.34 -6 0 51 6.37 -3 3 56 3.60
R 6 -3 51 6.05 6 0 52 6.60 9 3 57 3.80
Anterior Cingulate L -9 9 39 5.49 -9 12 39 6.76 -1 15 51 5.03
R 9 3 42 6.02 9 0 48 6.77 9 9 51 5.01
Thalamus L -15 -15 6 3.07 -15 -9 3 2.97 -12 -12 0 3.71
R 15 -15 6 3.98 15 -12 3 5.25 18 -9 12 2.93
Putamen L -24 9 9 5.81 -30 3 0 6.47
R 27 3 3 5.61 27 3 3 6.77
Insula/Claustrum L -39 0 9 6.23 -36 0 9 7.12 -36 21 3 4.01
R 42 0 9 6.27 39 -3 15 7.19 33 15 9 4.80
Inferior Frontal Gyrus L -51 21 0 3.00
R 48 18 -2 3.36
dorsolateral PFC L -45 6 30 5.64
R 36 -9 36 5.31
Frontopolar L -33 39 24 4.09 -33 39 24 3.49
R