Table 1.
Target neural regions exhibiting greater positive connectivity with the amygdala during face versus shapes stimuli processing, by facial emotion type
| Contrast | Amygdala Seed Region |
Target Region | (x,y,z), t extent threshold, k cluster size | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fear > Shapes | left | left inferior occipital gyrus | (-24,-88,-10) t=7.87***, k=284*** | - |
| left | right inferior occipital gyrus | (34,-84,-8) t=6.97***, k=640*** | 18 | |
| left | right fusiform gyrus | (38,-52,-18) t=6.57***, k=44*** | 37 | |
| left | left fusiform gyrus | (-34,-64,-14) t=5.43**, k=17** | - | |
| left | left calcarine sulcus | (-14,-100,-2) t=5.30*, k=13** | - | |
| right | right inferior occipital gyrus | (34,-82,-10) t=6.63***, k=611*** | 18 | |
| right | left inferior occipital gyrus | (-26,-86,-10) t=6.51***, k=260*** | - | |
| right | left fusiform gyrus | (-38,-66,-12) t=5.36**, k=6** | - | |
| right | left middle occipital gyrus | (-22,-98,14) t=5.30*, k=55* | 18 | |
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| Anger > Shapes | left | right middle occipital gyrus | (32,-88,8) t=6.93***, k=614*** | - |
| left | left middle occipital gyrus | (-20,-100,6) t=6.93***, k=404*** | 18 | |
| left | left fusiform gyrus | (-36,-68,-12) t=5.91**, k=10** | - | |
| right | left middle occipital gyrus | (-18,-98,4) t=7.43***, k=611*** | 18 | |
| right | right middle occipital gyrus | (32,-92,12) t=7.05***, k=833*** | - | |
| right | right fusiform gyrus | (36,-60,-14), t=6.61***, k=57*** | - | |
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| Neutral > Shapes | left | right lingual gyrus | (24,-90,-2) t=7.13***, k=592*** | - |
| left | left middle occipital gyrus | (-30,-92,-4) t=6.91***, k=528*** | - | |
| left | right fusiform gyrus | (42,-56,-16), t=5.70**, k=18** | - | |
| right | right middle occipital gyrus | (32,-92,6), t=7.64***, k=857*** | - | |
| right | left inferior occipital gyrus | (-24,-88,-10) t=7.37***, k=571*** | - | |
| right | left fusiform gyrus | (-38,-68,-12), t=5.49**, k=5* | - | |
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| All faces > Shapes | left | right middle occipital gyrus | (34,-90,8) t=10.17***, k=1522*** | - |
| left | left inferior occipital gyrus | (-24,-88,-10) t=9.93***, k=1178*** | - | |
| right | right middle occipital gyrus | (34,-90,6) t=10.64***, k=1661*** | - | |
| right | left middle occipital gyrus | (-40,-86,-6) t=9.86***, k=1321*** | - | |
Note: N=167. No target regions at the whole brain correction threshold exhibited positive connectivity with the amygdala seed regions for the Fear>Neutral or Anger>Neutral contrasts. Coordinates are in Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) space. Target regions that did not overlap with defined Brodmann’s Areas (BA) are indicated by a dash in the right-hand column of the table.
Whole brain FWE-corrected:
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p<.05,
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p<.01,
***
p<.001