Table 2.
Regions differentially activated at the beginning and the end of the experiment. ACC, anterior cingulate cortex; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex. Contrast: ‘rank beginning’ < ‘rank end’ did not reveal any cluster with number of voxels ≥ 10 and p < 0.00001.
| structure | left/right | Talairach coordinates |
Z-score | cluster size | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | ||||
| contrast: rank_beginning > rank_end (p < 0.00001, uncorrected, cluster size ≥ 10) | ||||||
| amygdala | L | −20 | −8 | −16 | 5.31 | 17 |
| amygdala | R | 24 | −4 | −20 | 5.43 | 22 |
| midbrain | R | 8 | −8 | −8 | 5.04 | 19 |
| inferior frontal gyrus (BA9) | L | −44 | 4 | 28 | 5.37 | 35 |
| contrasts: question_beginning > question_end (p < 0.0001, uncorrected, cluster size ≥ 10) | ||||||
| superior/middle frontal gyrus (BA9 BA10) | L | −8 | 16 | 32 | 4.47 | 30 |
| ACC | L | −28 | 44 | 28 | 5.14 | 22 |
| contrasts: question_beginning < question_end (p < 0.0001, uncorrected cluster size ≥ 10) | ||||||
| PCC, precuneus (BA23 BA30 BA7) | R | 4 | −56 | 20 | 4.96 | 57 |
| inferior/middle frontal gyrus (BA46) | R | 48 | 28 | 20 | 4.31 | 17 |