Table 2.

Brain regions exhibiting significantly increased activation to disgust facial expressions.

Brain region	Hemisphere	MNI coordinates			Size	Z-score
		x	y	z
Canonical Disgust > Neutral
Occipital gyrus	L	−21	−93	9	871	5.13
Occipital gyrus	R	30	−87	9	372	4.99
STS	R	54	−33	3	−	3.60
Posterior cingulate cortex	L	−6	−39	21	59	4.30
Fusiform gyrus	R	24	−48	−27	102	4.01
Intraparietal sulcus	L	−45	−39	45	317	3.99
Intraparietal sulcus	R	39	−30	45	137	3.95
Frontal Operculum	L	−57	15	9	345	3.98
Insula	L	−45	15	21	48	3.72*
Frontal Operculum	R	42	33	−3	10	3.35*
Thalamus	L	−15	−27	9	68	3.55
Thalamus	R	15	−21	12	72	3.64
Globus pallidus	R	21	−12	0	−	3.26
Posterior midcingulate cortex	L	−6	−24	51	19	3.50
mPFC	R	6	27	36	33	3.38
Anterior orbitofrontal cortex	R	33	54	−12	18	3.31
Distaste > Neutral
Occipital gyrus	L	−21	−93	9	219	5.02
Occipital gyrus	R	30	−84	12	107	4.97
Occipitotemporal jcn	R	51	−72	−6	41	3.50†
Fusiform gyrus	L	−24	−69	−12	22	3.42†
Canonical Disgust > Distaste
Frontal operculum	R	48	36	−6	64	4.43
Insula	R	42	33	−3	18	3.74*
STS	L	−54	−9	−12	149	3.90
STS	R	57	−24	−3	341	4.28
Thalamus	L	−21	−27	15	44	4.06
Thalamus	R	18	−24	12	384	3.94
Caudate/putamen/globus pallidus	R	21	15	6		3.62
mPFC	L	−3	45	30	230	4.01
Inferior frontal gyrus	R	57	21	21	60	3.86
Temporo-parietal junction	L	−48	−45	24	83	3.80
Middle frontal gyrus	L	−33	57	−3	22	3.56
Visual cortex	L	−15	−81	18	16	3.53
Putamen/caudate	L	−18	9	12	40	3.52
Posterior cingulate cortex	L	−9	−15	39	27	3.52
Orbitofrontal cortex	R	15	60	−9	34	3.46

*P < 0.05 SVC; ^†P < 0.001 uncorrected; all other clusters are P < 0.05 FDR corrected.