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. 2013 Dec 6;7:229. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00229

Table 1.

Areas of activation associated with uncertainty.

Contrast Region of activation Number of voxels BA x y z
Uncertain > certain DLPFC–R 96 46 39 20 37
DMPFC–Bi 2256 8 2 19 50
Frontal eye fields–R 1027 6 39 7 48
Frontal pole–R 132 10 33 61 11
Inferior occipital cortex–R 58 19 46 −73 −24
Insula–L 65 13 −32 21 4
Insula–R 1312 13 34 20 5
Middle temporal gyrus–L 91 21 −60 −32 −6
Middle temporal gyrus–R 484 21 61 −31 −3
Occipital cortex–L 625 18 −14 −87 −19
Occipital cortex–R 156 18 14 −96 1
Occipitotemporal junction–R 67 37 51 −49 9
Posterior cingulate–L 391 33 4 −29 25
Putamen–L 56 −27 2 −4
Superior parietal cortex–L 2195 7 −46 −57 44
Superior parietal Cortex–R 4417 7 33 −66 48
Supramarginal gyrus–R 271 39 47 −53 33
Certain> uncertain Cuneus–L 345 17 −9 −61 15
Superior temporal gyrus–R 52 38 47 9 −9
Ventral striatum–Bi 380 −1 11 2
VMPFC–L 190 32 −3 42 −4

BA, Brodmann areas; x,y,z, Talairach coordinates (Talairach and Tournoux, 1998) of central voxel in activated cluster. Cluster size threshold based on uncorrected voxelwise p < 0.005 and cluster size alpha < 0.05.