Table 3.

Brain areas showing higher response to thermal tasters (TTs) compared with thermal non‐tasters (TnTs) for gustatory sample “no CO₂”

Area	Side	MNIa	Z‐score	P‐value	Cluster sizeb, k
ACC*	L	−6, 2, 48	3.20	0.001	202
Rolanic operculum*	L	−44, −4, 52	3.32	<0.001	106
Secondary somatosensory cortex (SII)*	L	−54, −30, 32	2.99	0.001	132
Precentral gyrus*	R	30, −8, 56	2.93	0.002	59
Middle frontal gyrus/DLPFC	R	36, 42, 24	2.73	0.003	22

R, right hemisphere; L, left hemisphere; MNI, Montreal Neurological Institute.

^aPeak voxel coordinates given in MNI space (x,y,z).

^bReported clusters threshold at P < 0.005, uncorrected for multiple comparisons, with a cluster extent threshold k > 20 voxels, and “sub” indicates sub‐cluster level. Asterisks indicate areas activated with FDR corrected P < 0.05.