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. 2013 Aug 28;7:109. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00109

Table 3.

Whole-brain activations linked to retrieval focus and valence of memories.

Brain regions BA Side Talairach coordinates
T score Cluster size
x y z
A. DIRECT CONTRASTS
Emotion Positive vs. Context Positive
Inferior frontal gyrus 47 R 28 35 −5 6.08 54
Anterior cingulate 10 R 20 47 1 5.37
Middle temporal gyrus 21 L −56 0 −7 5.63 26
Superior temporal gyrus 38 L −56 11 −7 4.83
Precuneus 7 L −4 −59 62 4.97 10
Inferior frontal gyrus 44 L −55 12 10 4.91 10
Inferior frontal gyrus 47 L −36 19 −8 4.85 41
Emotion Positive vs. Emotion Negative
Precentral gyrus 4 L −44 −18 34 4.68 11
Context Negative vs. Context Positive
Inferior frontal gyrus 47 L −36 19 −14 4.84 13
Hippocampus L −32 −12 −9 4.40 5
Hippocampus R 32 −12 −13 4.47 5
B. INTERACTIONS
(Emotion Positive vs. Context Positive) vs. (Emotion Negative vs. Context Negative)
Middle temporal gyrus 21 L −60 −4 −3 6.20 13
Hippocampus L −32 −16 −16 5.06 17
Caudate (tail) L −24 −42 13 4.98 24
Postcentral gyrus 3 L −48 −18 34 4.51 28
Middle frontal gyrus 10 R 44 42 −5 4.40 14
(Context Negative vs. Emotion Negative) vs. (Context Positive vs. Emotion Positive)
Caudate (tail) L −24 −42 13 4.98 13
Hippocampus L −36 −16 −16 3.60 7
(Emotion Positive vs. Emotion Negative) vs. (Context Positive vs. Context Negative):
Hippocampus L −32 −16 −16 5.06 10
Cingulate gyrus 31 L −24 −46 13 4.64 17
Postcentral gyrus 3 L −48 −18 34 4.51 28
(Context Negative vs. Context Positive) vs. (Emotion Negative vs. Emotion Positive):
Hippocampus L −32 −16 −16 5.06 19
Caudate (tail) L −24 −42 13 4.98 13
Postcentral gyrus 3 L −48 −18 34 4.51 15
Middle frontal gyrus 10 R 40 42 −5 4.32 11

Significant activations resulting from whole-brain analyses investigating direct contrasts and interactions are reported. For direct contrasts, a threshold of p < 0.001 was used, and for interactions a threshold of p < 0.005 was used. For the interaction analyses, the interaction contrast was inclusively masked with the corresponding direct contrast set up at p < 0.05. A cluster size of 10 contiguous voxels was used in all analyses, except for the MTL, where a cluster size of 5 contiguous voxels was used. BA = Brodmann’s area; L = left, R = right.