Table 1. Brain areas more activated in insight than in noninsight solution.
Area | BA | Voxels | x | y | z | T | Z |
Insight > Noninsight in the early period of solution | |||||||
Left superior temporal pole | 38 | 752 | –28 | 10 | –28 | 6.31 | 4.41 |
Left inferior temporal gyrus | 21 | –42 | 0 | –38 | 5.95 | 4.26 | |
Left anterior cingulate cortex | 32 | 58 | –10 | 42 | 8 | 6.06 | 4.31 |
Left middle frontal gyrus | 8 | 148 | –44 | 20 | 48 | 5.96 | 4.27 |
Right angular gyrus | 40 | 326 | 50 | –56 | 36 | 5.81 | 4.20 |
Right middle temporal gyrus | 21 | 126 | 54 | 2 | –30 | 5.50 | 4.07 |
Left angular gyrus | 39 | 1070 | –50 | –56 | 36 | 5.81 | 4.20 |
Left middle temporal gyrus | 21 | –52 | –30 | –2 | 5.04 | 3.84 | |
Right middle temporal gyrus | 21 | 248 | 60 | –48 | 8 | 4.94 | 3.79 |
Right inferior frontal gyrus | 47 | 81 | 24 | 14 | –20 | 4.74 | 3.69 |
Right parahippocampal gyrus | 28 | 24 | 4 | –32 | 4.49 | 3.56 | |
Insight > Noninsight in the late period of solution | |||||||
Right middle temporal gyrus | 21 | 834 | 68 | –44 | –6 | 7.46 | 4.83 |
Right middle temporal gyrus | 37 | 56 | –56 | 8 | 5.52 | 4.07 | |
Left olfactory | 34 | 1720 | –24 | 6 | –18 | 7.02 | 4.68 |
Left middle temporal gyrus | 20 | –54 | –8 | –26 | 6.73 | 4.57 | |
Left hippocampus | 20 | –26 | –10 | –20 | 6.20 | 4.36 | |
Right angular gyrus | 39 | 158 | 46 | –56 | 36 | 6.88 | 4.63 |
Right putamen | 48 | 349 | 22 | 6 | –12 | 6.50 | 4.48 |
Right amygdala | 34 | 28 | –4 | –10 | 5.96 | 4.27 | |
Right hippocampus | 20 | 30 | –6 | –20 | 4.37 | 3.49 | |
Left middle frontal gyrus | 46 | 124 | –38 | 22 | 42 | 6.38 | 4.44 |
Left anterior cingulate cortex | 10 | 1032 | –4 | 52 | 2 | 5.83 | 4.21 |
Left medial frontal gyrus | 10 | –8 | 54 | 18 | 5.79 | 4.19 | |
Left middle temporal gyrus | 21 | 333 | –52 | –32 | –2 | 5.49 | 4.06 |
Left angular gyrus | 39 | 642 | –52 | –64 | 40 | 4.80 | 3.73 |
Left inferior parietal gyrus | 40 | –60 | –48 | 44 | 4.78 | 3.71 |
BA, Brodmann area. Coordinates (x,y,z) were the MNI (Montreal Neurological Institute) coordinates. The thresholds were set at p<0.001 (uncorrected for multiple comparisons) and 50 or more contiguous voxels. T- and Z-scores of the activations were also shown.