Table II.

Brain regions where salty‐congruent combination of odor and taste induced significantly higher neural activations than incongruent combination

Brain region	Voxel size	x	Y	z	T value	Z score	P value
(Congruent odor + STlow+high) − (incongruent odor + STlow+high)
Inferior FO	4	63	11	19	3.12	3.07	0.001
Anterior cingulate cortex	8	9	41	4	2.92	2.87	0.002
Middle cingulate cortex	9	9	2	34	2.96	2.91	0.002
		12	2	25	2.73	2.69	0.004
Insula/anterior	8	45	17	−2	3.19	3.13	0.001
Insula/anterior	3	−36	14	−8	2.74	2.70	0.003
Insula/posterior	82	33	−40	19	4.44	4.29	0.000
Inferior parietal lobule		51	−34	22	3.59	3.51	0.000
Piriform cortex	22	27	11	−14	3.19	3.13	0.001
Putamen	3	27	5	13	2.73	2.69	0.004
Inferior parietal OFC	12	−42	35	−14	3.40	3.32	0.000
Caudomedial OFC	5	−18	32	−17	3.16	3.10	0.001
Superior frontal gyrus	113	21	47	19	3.47	3.40	0.000
		24	59	22	3.20	3.14	0.001
		30	47	28	3.11	3.06	0.001
Superior frontal gyrus	13	9	59	25	3.10	3.04	0.001
Middle frontal gyrus	3	−27	50	25	2.91	2.86	0.002
Middle frontal gyrus	3	45	29	34	2.92	2.87	0.002
Inferior frontal gyrus	25	−51	26	10	3.44	3.36	0.000
Superior temporal gyrus	6	−45	2	−14	3.12	3.07	0.001
Superior temporal gyrus	6	−60	−64	16	3.20	3.14	0.001
Middle temporal gyrus	5	54	−25	−8	2.96	2.91	0.002
Postcentral gyrus	3	−66	−25	19	2.90	2.85	0.002
Vermis	4	0	−49	1	2.87	2.82	0.002
Extranuclear	28	6	20	16	3.83	3.73	0.000
		−3	23	13	2.74	2.70	0.003
		6	8	22	2.67	2.63	0.004

ST^low and ST^high: low and high concentrations of salty taste solution, respectively. x, y, z indicates MNI coordinates. OFC, orbitofrontal cortex. All reported activations were significant at P _uncorrected < 0.005 (≥3 voxels).