Table 4. Mediation analysis results between the conflict areas: right visual (R Vis), left insula (L Insul), and left inferior parietal cortex (L IPC), and the post-conflict region right lateral prefrontal cortex (R LPFC) with the potential mediator ACC/SMA.

R Vis→R LPFC mediated by ACC/SMA
	a Path	b Path	a * b Mediation path
β	1.21	0.25	0.31
p-values	0.0001*	0.1964	0.1549

β denotes the regression coefficients and p-values are uncorrected.

*indicates significant connections at p<0.0125, Bonferroni corrected.