Fig. 3.

Expressiveness mediates the cultural group difference in how activations in visceral somatosensory cortex (dorsal anterior insula) correlate with feeling strength trial-by-trial, reported in Immordino-Yang et al., 2014. Mediation was tested controlling for average reported feeling strength, average dAI peak BOLD response magnitude and age. Estimated regression coefficients are depicted for each relationship, with standard errors in parentheses. The relationship of culture on r is depicted controlling for expressiveness. *indicates p<.05.