Table 3.
Brain regions showing a positive correlation between neural activation differences (invU, or U) and subjectively experienced degree of flow (flow index)
| Brain region | Number of voxels | Peak voxel |
Peak statistics |
Cluster statistics |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | r | t(22) | P | r | t(22) | P | |||
| Correlation between invU-shaped modulation of neural activation and the flow index | |||||||||||
| L | Caudate | 42 | −18 | −12 | 28 | 0.51 | 2.72 | 0.006 | 0.42 | 2.14 | 0.022 |
| Correlation between U-shaped modulation of neural activation and the flow index | |||||||||||
| R | Amygdala | 70 | 32 | 0 | −20 | 0.52 | 2.76 | 0.006 | 0.42 | 2.11 | 0.023 |
| R | MPFC | 10 | 12 | 52 | −4 | 0.39 | 1.96 | 0.031 | 0.38 | 1.86 | 0.038 |
| L | MPFC | 21 | −10 | 58 | 8 | 0.39 | 1.93 | 0.033 | 0.37 | 1.83 | 0.041 |
P-values one-sided.