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.