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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 8.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2005;43(1):115–127. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.026

Table 4.

Regions associated with contrast of interest “imitating”, grouped depending on their association with either the two (top) or only one of the main effects, executing an “identical gesture” and using the “same limb”

Location Imitating
Identical action
Same limb
x y z t values x y z t values x y z t values
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex −6 56 0 5.93 −2 60 −2 5.04 −2 56 −8 6.21
(R) Occipitotemporal cortex (EBA) 52 −68 2 5.14 54 −68 2 4.59 54 −68 4 5.12
(L) Occipitotemporal cortex (MT) −44 −80 2 8.08 −46 −80 −2 6.22 −48 −72 −4 5.98
(R) Intraparietal sulcus 26 −54 64 5.66 28 −52 60 4.85
Posterior cingulate 0 −48 36 6.34 4 −44 18 5.73
(R) Calcarin fissure 12 −56 14 7.12 12 −58 16 6.07
(R) Occipitotemporal cortex (MT) 44 −70 −10 7.15 42 −72 −10 10.76
(R) Inferior occipital gyrus 32 −90 −12 8.66 34 −88 −12 7.14
(R) Fusiform gyrus 30 −42 −14 4.64 30 −42 −12 5.46
(L) Fusiform gyrus −40 −48 −20 4.8 −40 −48 −20 6.31
(R) Precentral gyrus 48 −8 54 5.09 44 −8 60 4.93
(R) Supramarginal gyrus 62 −26 20 4.82 60 −28 22 5.64
(L) Supramarginal gyrus −62 −28 18 5.94 −56 −32 22 6.77
(L) Parietal operculum −52 −18 12 4.77 −54 −18 12 7.56
(R) Posterior insula 40 −2 −2 4.63 42 2 6 5.73
(R) Amygdala 38 0 −20 5.28 36 2 −24 4.24

EBA: extrastriate body area (Downing et al., 2001); MT: motion-sensitive Middle Temporal area (P < 0.01 at the cluster level).