Table 1.

Coordinates of face selective voxels in the amygdala from fMRI studies that compared activation to faces with activation to other categories

Study	Control category	Sample size	R. amygdala			L. amygdala
		N	x	y	z	x	y	z
Fitzgerald et al. (2006)	Portable radios	20				−24	−3	−20
Ganel et al. (2005)	Scrambled faces	11	18	−7	−9
Hariri et al. (2002)	Emotional scenes	12	16	−5	−13
Kesler-West et al. (2001)	Scrambled faces	21	17	−7	−8	−17	−9	−8
Maurer et al. (2007)	Houses and common household objects	12	20	−9	−20
Pourtois et al. (2005)	Houses	14				−21	−15	−9
Goossens et al. (2009)	Houses	20	22	−3	−12	−18	−3	−16
Said et al. (2010)	Chairs	37	17	−5	−10	−17	−2	−10
Wright and Liu (2006)	Pixilated patterns	12	22	−7	−10	−9	−3	−10
Zhang et al. (2008)	Chinese characters, common objects, and scrambled images	16	18	−1	−18

The coordinates are reported in Talairach space. Four of the studies (Kesler-West et al. 2001; Maurer et al. 2007; Pourtois et al. 2005; Zhang et al. 2008) are from the sample of studies in Berman et al. (2010). Two of the studies (Fitzgerald et al. 2006; Wright and Liu 2006) compared emotional and neutral faces with a control category. To extract face selective voxels in the amygdala, they performed a conjunction analysis of the individual face contrasts with the control category