Table 2.
Brain areas that showed differences in activation to negative and positive numbers.
| Brain region | Peak MNI coordinates |
Peak t-value | No. of voxels | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||
| POSITIVE TRIALS NEGATIVE TRIALS | |||||
| Bilat PCC | 0 | −42 | 46 | 4.65 | 87 |
| NEGATIVE TRIALS POSITIVE TRIALS | |||||
| Left ITG | −40 | −56 | −6 | 5.64 | 237 |
| Right IPS | 30 | −64 | 48 | 5.43 | 396 |
| Bilat pre-SMA | 2 | 16 | 48 | 5.36 | 147 |
| Bilat LG | −16 | −78 | 2 | 5.27 | 1621 |
| Right inferior LOC | 40 | −88 | −8 | 4.67 | 215 |
| Left IPS | −30 | −52 | 38 | 4.65 | 89 |
| Left posterior IPS | −24 | −68 | 42 | 4.46 | 84 |
| Right MFG | 54 | 32 | 24 | 4.43 | 35 |
| Left MFG | −32 | 14 | 30 | 4.4 | 40 |
| Left inferior LOC | −46 | −80 | −10 | 4.16 | 49 |
| Left SPL/IPS | −38 | −54 | 54 | 4.11 | 44 |
PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; ITG, inferior temporal gyrus; IPS, intraparietal sulcus; SMA, supplementary motor cortex; LG, lingual gyrus; LOC, lateral occipital cortex; MFG, middle frontal gyrus; SPL, superior parietal lobule.