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Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2012 Jun 26;15(7):10.1038/nn.3136. doi: 10.1038/nn.3136

Table 1.

Studies, stimuli, tasks, Montreal Neurological Institute coordinates and cortical regions involved in either viewing black and white faces or correlated with measures of racial bias

Reference Stimuli fMRI task x y z Amygdala DLPFC ACC FFA
10 Black and white faces View faces, judge if male or female −15.4 −6.5 −20.5 X
10.6 −6.4 −20.9
18 Black and white faces N-back −18.1 −5.0 −15.9 X
35.5 −2.5 8.7
16.8 −0.06 35.6 X
56 Black and white faces View faces and remember faces −34.8 −42.6 −26.7 X
11 Black and white faces Face to the left or right of fixation 43.4 55.5 19.4 X X
36.7 64.1 8.6
−47.5 47.5 8.3
7.8 46.4 27.7
14.1 35.3 11.9
7.9 23.7 26.5
12 Black and white faces Face to the left or right of fixation (face shown 30 ms or 525 ms) 18 −6 −12 X
27 48 24 X
33 48 36
24 60 27
−57 18 36
−6 36 24 X
−9 18 33
3 18 33
−30 −36 −21 X
−45 −42 −21
51 −42 −24
20 Black and white faces Categorize race of face using pictures, categorize race of face using words or categorize shape of face 28.9 2.2 −21.0 X
18.1 −10.1 −26.3
18.1 6.2 −23.4
15.9 −0.4 −25.0
13 Black and white faces Yes or no: over 21, vegetable preference or presence of a dot −20.7 −10.7 −18.9 X
23.6 −9.5 −19.7
14 Black and white faces Social categorization task: age
Nonsocial categorization task: object visible in array
26.8 −1.0 −20.6 X
26.8 −3.3 −22.6
36.7 −44.6 −17.6 X
44 Black and white faces Race IAT 30 0 −14 X
30 58 14 X
32 56 14
34 48 18
−8 32 24 X
8 40 14
8 34 28
15 Black and white faces, dark or light skin Face to the left or right of fixation −27 −0.2 −20.9 X
17.5 59.5 29.6 X
−27.6 34.7 42.9
72 Black and white faces Categorize by group or by race
16 Faces (same- and other-race and self-resembling) Cyberball −2 46 12 X
6 44 2
16 20 34
99 Black and white faces View individuals in painful or neutral situations and participant’s rate their empathy −21.7 −12.3 −13.1 X
1.7 −6.9 43.1 X
17 Black and white faces Primed with music: rap, metal or none, view faces (at 32 ms or 525 ms) −20 −4 −12 X
32 −2 −18
36 2 −24
22 −4 −24
−48 34 22 X
−44 36 22
28 −2 56
−42 2 46
38 36 34
−18 40 26
−48 18 42
−32 30 40
−12 38 44
22 44 28
22 32 34
18 46 28
−22 10 60
28 26 44
22 24 54
83 Black and white faces View faces and trait words and remember them 40.1 54.5 20.7 X
−31.6 60.7 −12.3
100 Black and white faces View individuals in painful or neutral situations and participant’s rate their empathy 40.1 42.6 19.7 X
1.2 61.8 20.6 X
−1.9 31.0 24.9
46.5 −68.8 −12.0 X
79 Black and white faces Trust game 27 2 −23 X
−15 −1 −14
39 20 40 X
−6 −22 40 X
−3 41 7