Table 3.
Group Activations Associated with the Reasoning Tasks
| Region of Activation (Right/Left) | Brodmann’s area | Coordinates
|
t | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||
| Temperature > Poverty | |||||
| Inferior temporal gyrus (R) | 20 | 58 | −44 | −26 | 4.06 |
| Fusiform cortex (L) | 37 | −38 | −50 | −16 | 5.85 |
| Operculum (L) | 44 | −32 | 16 | 28 | 4.26 |
| Inferior frontal gyrus (L) | 45 | −34 | 32 | 14 | 3.66 |
| Supplementary motor cortex (R) | 8 | 4 | 22 | 54 | 4.31 |
| Supplementary motor cortex (L) | 6 | −6 | −4 | 64 | 5.06 |
| Superior frontal gyrus (L) | 8 | −24 | 22 | 62 | 5.12 |
| Superior frontal gyrus (R) | 8 | 32 | 8 | 66 | 5.07 |
| Superior frontal gyrus (L) | 6 | −26 | 2 | 68 | 5.00 |
| Middle frontal gyrus (L) | 9 | −36 | 34 | 48 | 5.02 |
| Middle frontal gyrus (R) | 46 | 40 | 36 | 42 | 3.28 |
| Precentral gyrus (L) | 6/44 | −50 | −4 | 50 | 5.09 |
| Precentral gyrus (R) | 44 | 40 | 4 | 30 | 3.23 |
| Postcentral gyrus (L) | 48 | −46 | −6 | 18 | 3.74 |
| Parietal cortex (R) | 7 | 26 | −64 | 38 | 6.78 |
| Parietal cortex (L) | 19 | −28 | −76 | 24 | 5.40 |
| Occipital cortex (R) | 19 | 36 | −82 | −4 | 6.50 |
| Poverty > Temperature | |||||
| Middle temporal gyrus (R) | 22 | 52 | −46 | 18 | 5.26 |
| Middle temporal gyrus (L) | 21 | −68 | −28 | 2 | 4.78 |
| Superior temporal gyrus (L) | 22 | −52 | −22 | 12 | 3.96 |
| Cingulate cortex (L/R) | 23 | 0 | −18 | 40 | 5.19 |
| Cingulate cortex (R) | 24 | 2 | 14 | 38 | 3.72 |
| Medial frontal cortex (L) | 9 | −6 | 48 | 46 | 4.87 |
| Medial frontal cortex (L) | 10 | −8 | 56 | 26 | 4.66 |
| Ventromedial frontal cortex (R) | 10 | 10 | 48 | −8 | 4.53 |
| Cuneus (L) | 18 | −8 | −86 | 18 | 6.88 |
| Calcarine (L) | 19 | −24 | −62 | 8 | 4.58 |
Thresholded at p < .005, corrected for areas significantly activated in the main effect of either condition, k = 15 voxels. Approximate Brodmann’s areas are shown from the Automated Anatomical Labeling map.