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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: Group Process Intergroup Relat. 2008 Apr 1;11(2):201–214. doi: 10.1177/1368430207088038

Table 2.

Main brain regions activated for each face type versus neutral*

Talairach coordinates (mm) t-value
(at peak)
Cluster size
No. of voxels

Brain region x y z
Dominant versus neutral faces
Right lingual gyrus 27 −54 13 5.9 34
Right superior temporal gyrus 60 −51 3 5.6 5
Right insula 39 9 15 4.9 11
Submissive versus neutral faces
Right cingulate gyrus 42 −8 23 10.3 29
Medial occipital gyrus 39 −72 19 8.4 37
Right lingual gyrus 21 −47 2 8.0 50
Left lingual gyrus −29 −47 2 7.6 26
Left inferior parietal lobe −53 −22 24 6.9 34
Right medial temporal gyrus 42 −63 21 6.2 12
Right superior temporal gyrus 48 −51 25 6.0 14
Angry versus neutral faces
Left postcentral gyrus −59 −22 34 8.6 7
Left medial occipital gyrus −53 −66 11 8.2 22
Right medial temporal gyrus 45 −49 5 7.5 7
Left medial frontal gyrus −9 −14 59 6.3 6
Left cingulate gyrus −18 −21 39 6.1 15
Fearful versus neutral faces
Right anterior cingulate gyrus 6 38 −4 8.1 5
Left cingulate gyrus −15 −42 30 7.3 14
Left insula −42 −11 11 7.1 21
Right precentral gyrus 51 −9 36 6.7 12
*

Listed clusters are based on threshold of p < .005, uncorrected, extent threshold ≥ 5. All coordinates are in Talairach and Tournoux system.877