Table 5.
Brain regions for main effect of funniness (jokes versus non-jokes).
Region | BA | Side | MNI coordinates |
Z score | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
x | y | z | ||||
Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) | 32 | L | -3 | 41 | 4 | 7.56 |
Temporoparietal junction (TPJ) | 39 | L | -54 | -69 | 25 | 6.85 |
Temporoparietal junction | 39 | R | 57 | -61 | 25 | 5.75 |
Amygdala | – | R | 24 | -4 | -17 | 5.28 |
Middle occipital gyrus | 19 | L | -36 | -85 | 1 | 5.21 |
Frontoinsular (FI) | 13 | R | 30 | 26 | 1 | 4.62 |
MNI, Montreal Neurological Institute; L, left; R, right; BA, Brodmann’s area. Activation threshold was set at p < 0.05 FWE (family-wise error rate) corrected for multiple comparisons at the peak level for the whole brain.