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. 2012 May 10;7(5):e36270. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036270

Table 2. Regional Brain Activations during the Perception of Infant Faces.

Contrast Region k max x y z
Happy Face > Neutral Face
L. Ventral striatum (BA 25) 72 4.80 −3 3 −6
L. Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex/Orbitofrontal Gyrus (BA 11) 45 4.69 −25 43 −21
R. Inferior Frontal Gyrus (BA 47) 45 3.90 30 23 −13
Neutral Face > Happy Face
L. Cingulate Gyrus (BA 24) 77 4.47 −3 −14 41
R. Superior Temporal Gyrus (BA 22) 98 4.40 53 −47 15
L. Supramarginal Gyrus (BA 40) 49 4.31 −52 −43 33
L. Insula (BA 13) 58 4.28 −40 −41 18
L. Precentral Gyrus (BA 4) 50 3.78 −31 −18 56
Sad Face > Neutral Face
R. Precuneus (BA 31) 396 5.95 13 −67 20
R. Middle Temporal Gyrus (BA 39) 84 4.91 53 −63 19
R. Middle Occipital Gyrus (BA 18) 157 4.62 33 −84 5
L. Precentral Gyrus (BA 6) 50 4.54 −65 −5 35
L. Middle Occipital Gyrus (BA 19) 313 4.44 −28 −85 13
R. Superior Frontal Gyrus (BA 10) 51 4.14 25 51 0
R. Inferior Frontal Gyrus/Orbitofronal gyrus (BA 11) 79 3.99 11 42 −15
Neutral Face > Sad Face
L. Insula (BA 13) 62 4.95 −53 −38 14
R. Superior Temporal Gyrus 48 3.71 62 −21 5
Sad Face > Happy Face
R. Inferior Frontal Gyrus (BA 45) 64 5.88 55 27 13
R. Fusiform gyrus (BA 19) 47 5.06 37 −62 −4
R. Superior Temporal Gyrus (BA 39) 89 4.82 43 −52 15
R. Cuneus (BA 18) 83 4.69 19 −72 15
L. Middle Temporal Gyrus (BA 37) 87 4.35 −40 −63 −1
L. Middle Occipital Gyrus (BA 19) 64 4.11 −31 −82 6
R. Precentral Gyrus (BA 6) 50 3.88 10 −24 64

All clusters in this table were generated at FWE corrected p<.05 threshold at an uncorrected voxel-level threshold of p<.01 at each tail and a cluster of 45. Abbreviations: BA: Brodmann area; L: left; R: right, k: number of voxels in the cluster.