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. 2018 Jan 9;18(1):127–142. doi: 10.3758/s13415-017-0557-1

Table 2.

Regions of neural activation for friends and disliked-peer whole-brain t contrasts controlled for the percentage of behavior of interest

Brain region L/R Voxels z MNI coordinates
x y z
Prosocial choices
Friend > Disliked Peer
  Putamen L 160 3.92 −30 −18 0
3.77 −24 −9 −6
3.50 −39 −15 −6
  pTPJ–IPL L 297 3.88 −48 −48 48
3.49 −27 −57 42
3.26 −36 −60 45
  pTPJ–IPL R 149 3.23 45 −57 45
3.19 36 −72 51
3.16 42 −51 39
  Inferior frontal gyrus–Rolandic operculum R 121 3.73 51 6 18
3.55 48 −6 15
3.31 36 0 18
Friend > Unfamiliar Peer
  pTPJ–IPL L/R 594 3.86 9 −75 45
3.55 −33 −69 42
3.45 −42 −54 42
  pTPJ–IPL R 277 3.84 36 −69 45
3.67 51 −42 54
3.59 45 −54 57
Selfish choices
Disliked Peer > Friend
  Middle temporal gyrus–superior temporal sulcus L 487 4.63 −66 −36 0
4.46 −66 −30 −6
4.01 −57 −18 −15
  Putamen 142 3.78 24 3 −6
3.46 30 −3 −24
3.40 27 −6 −12
  Postcentral gyrus–precentral gyrus 2081 4.58 45 −21 48
4.38 −12 −27 60
4.30 −48 9 51
  Middle temporal gyrus R 164 4.15 60 −63 0
3.71 48 −60 6
3.26 54 −57 12
  Occipital gyrus L 244 3.87 −15 −90 33
3.26 −9 −78 15
3.19 −30 −87 24
  Lingual gyrus 423 3.79 24 −51 0
3.70 12 −36 −3
3.69 21 −60 15

Note. MNI = Montreal Neurological Institute; pTPJ = posterior temporoparietal junction; IPL= inferior parietal lobule. Analyses are conducted using FWE cluster-correction at p < .05, with a cluster-forming threshold of p < .005