Table 4.
Regions activated by the effort contrast (increased signal to anticipation of smaller response cost)
| Region | Max z score | Peak voxel (in mm) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | ||
| Left putamen | 4.04 | −28 | −2 | −4 |
| Right putamen | 3.69 | 26 | 0 | −6 |
| Left SMA/cingulate motor area | 4.78 | −6 | −8 | 58 |
| Right SMA/cingulate motor area | 3.89 | 4 | −2 | 54 |
| Left primary motor cortex | 4.75 | −34 | −22 | 60 |
| Left midbrain | 3.16 | −8 | −20 | −10 |