Table 3.
Brain areas where repressors showed more activation in response to fearful facial expression (compared to neutral faces) than sensitizers
| Brain Region | (BA) | Hemisphere | MNI coordinates |
Size | Z-score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||||
| Inferior frontal gyrus | 47 | L | −28 | 32 | 4 | 74 | 4.32 |
| 46 | R | 32 | 30 | 20 | 15 | 3.65 | |
| Middle frontal gyrus | 9 | L | −34 | 30 | 24 | 21 | 4.03 |
| Insula | 13 | R | 32 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 3.99 |
| Cingulate gyrus | 32 | L | −14 | 18 | 30 | 12 | 3.44 |
| Precuneus, parietal lobe | 31 | L | −20 | −54 | 34 | 14 | 3.95 |
| Middle temporal gyrus | 21 | L | −50 | −26 | −8 | 15 | 3.74 |
| Caudate head | R | 8 | 22 | 4 | 179 | 3.70 | |
Coordinates of the maximal point of activation and the associated Z-values are shown. The activations are significant at P < 0.001 (uncorrected).