Table 4.
Brain regions showing working memory effects for face and location common to the two age groups.
| Coordinates | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brain region | L/R | BA | Number of voxels | x | y | z | Z-score |
| Young–old = Old–old | |||||||
| Face WM effects | |||||||
| DLPFC | L | 44 | 52 | -45 | 26 | 32 | 4.07 |
| DLPFC | R | 46 | 135 | 36 | 23 | 35 | 4.14 |
| VLPFC | L | 47 | 44 | -36 | 47 | -4 | 3.77 |
| Medial frontal cortex | R | 20 | 20 | 9 | 26 | 41 | 3.92 |
| Insula | L | 13 | 58 | -30 | 26 | 2 | 5.15 |
| Insula | R | 13 | 67 | 30 | 29 | -1 | 4.54 |
| Middle temporal gyrus | R | 21 | 20 | 66 | -28 | -10 | 3.98 |
| Inferior parietal cortex | L | 40 | 31 | -39 | -55 | 47 | 3.35 |
| Inferior parietal cortex | R | 39/40 | 186 | 42 | -61 | 41 | 4.11 |
| Location WM effects | |||||||
| No suprathreshold clusters | |||||||
Z-values refer to the peak of the activated cluster. L, left; R, right; BA, Brodmann’s area; DLPFC, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; VLPFC, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.