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Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2010 Dec 28;49(5):1105–1127. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.032

Table 7.

Brain areas active for fear from Tables 2–5, broken out by whether they were active in both physical danger and social evaluation situations, or were only active in one.

Brain Region Brodmann Area Effect Type Spatial Extent Fear
Physical Social
dmPFC/FEF/SMA 6,8,9 Concept Main Effect 241 + +
dmPFC 9 Both Main Effects 76 + +
ACC 32 Concept Main Effect 12 + +
vmPFC 10 Concept Main Effect 35 + +
mOFC 11 Concept Main Effect 16 + +
L OFC 47 Concept Main Effect 29 + +
L Temporal Pole 38 Concept Main Effect 53 + +
R Temporal Pole 38 Concept Main Effect 54 + +
L STG 41,42,22 Interaction 123 +
L Insula tal Interaction 69 +
L Inf Parietal 40 Interaction 63 +
L PHG 35/36 Situation Main Effect 46 +
R STG 22,41 Both Main Effects 13 +
R STG 41,42,22 Interaction 110 +
R Insula tal Interaction 12 +
R Inf Parietal 40 Interaction 20 +
R PHG 35/36 Situation Main Effect 82 +
Mid-Cingulate 31 Situation Main Effect 25 +
Paracentral Lobule 5 Situation Main Effect 30 +
vmPFC 10 Situation Main Effect 57 +
L Occipital 17/18 Situation Main Effect 84 +
L OFC 47 Interaction 31 +
L IFG 44,45 Interaction 63 +
L dlPFC 46,9 Interaction 22 +
L Temporal Pole 38 Interaction 8 +

Note. Cluster details can be found in Tables 2–5 for the respective effect type. L is left hemisphere, R is right hemisphere, Inf is inferior, SMA is supplementary motor area, dmPFC and vmPFC are dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, FEF is frontal eye fields, ACC is anterior cingulate cortex, mOFC is medial orbitofrontal cortex, IFG is inferior frontal gyrus, STG is superior temporal gyrus, dlPFC is dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, PHG is parahippocampal gyrus. Brodmann areas in bold were originally part of a larger cluster broken out using a mask for the respective area. tal indicates that Talairach coordinates are more informative than Brodmann areas. Spatial extent is in functional voxels. A large + indicates that an overlapping situation and concept main effect exhibited a situation effect for one situation, while simultaneously exhibiting a concept main effect across both situations, which is why the effect is also indicated for the other situation with a regular +. When an overlapping main effect did not exhibit a concept effect for this concept, it received a regular + indicating the relevant situation effect.