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. 2015 Sep 4;11(2):215–224. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsv114

Fig 2.

Fig 2.

Depiction of significant correlations between (A) fiction reading scores on the fiction ART and dmPFC subnetwork activity during Social > Non-social passages, (B) between dmPFC subnetwork activity during Social > Non-social passages default activity and ToM task performance and (C) between fiction reading and ToM task performance. (D) The effect of fiction reading on ToM task performance through dmPFC subnetwork activity for social passages. Bootstrap analysis of the indirect effect indicated that dmPFC subnetwork activity mediated the relationship between fiction reading and ToM task performance. Unstandardized path coefficients shown with SE in parentheses for each path. The dotted line represents the direct effect of fiction reading on ToM task performance (i.e. controlling for the effect of dmPFC subnetwork activity). Note that the ‘More Intention’ and ‘Less Intention’ anchors on plots B and C are for visualization purposes only; participants rated each story on the Moral Judgment Task from 1 (forbidden) to 5 (permissible). *P < 0.05.