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. 2015 Aug 24;9:101. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00101

Table 3.

Regions of interest in visual fear processing (in Talairach space).

Region ROIs (right) x y z Contrast References
Amygdala 25 −7 −10 Fear conditioning Milad et al., 2007
VSTR 14 8 −2 Amygdala anti-correlated Satterthwaite et al., 2011
PAG 0 −32 −10 Phobic vs. fear Carlsson et al., 2004
LC 9 −42 −30 Hungry vs. satiated Mohanty et al., 2008
Vision LGN 22 −25 −1 Hess et al., 2009
Pulvinar 19 −24 14 Discrimination Fischer and Whitney, 2009
SC* 12 −28 −14 Fearful vs. neutral eyes Morris et al., 2002
V1 7 −88 0 Attention Martínez et al., 2001
V2 7 −78 −3 Attention Martínez et al., 2001
V4 19 −70 −11 Attention Martínez et al., 2001
FFA (TEO) 38 −43 −18 Faces vs. places and obj. Mur et al., 2010
aIT (TE) 35 −3 −25 Faces vs. baseline Mur et al., 2010
OFC pOFC 38 19 −11 Kober et al., 2008
lOFC 51 31 −10 Maintain vs. suppress Phan et al., 2005
mOFC 9 33 −12 Attractive vs. unattractive Bray and O'Doherty, 2007
PFC vmPFC 8 15 −12.5 Fear conditioning Milad et al., 2007
dlPFC 40 31 20 Awareness vs. non-aware Sahraie et al., 1997
vlPFC 55 32 9 Pop-out perception Eriksson et al., 2004
Other IPL 52 −25 27 What vs. where Harrison et al., 2010
LIP 31 −71 45 Simpson et al., 2011
ACC 4 28 16 Phobic vs. fear Carlsson et al., 2004
Insula 33 −23 −2 Disgust and fear cond. Klucken et al., 2012
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Converted from Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) coordinates. Abbreviations are described in Table 1.