Table I.

Significant activations for the positive‐feedback versus control‐feedback contrast

Brain region	Brodmann area(s)	Number of voxels in cluster	Z‐score at peak voxel	MNI coordinates of peak voxel (x, y, z)
Brain regions demonstrating significant activation in response to being liked
Midline cortical activations
Ventromedial prefrontal	10, 32	519	4.6	0	60	−4
	10	173	4.4	−4	68	10
Pregenual anterior cingulate	24	12	3.4	8	36	4
Mid cingulate	23	238	5.2	2	−10	22
Dorsal posterior cingulate	23	34	3.5	0	−32	28
Retrosplenial posterior cingulate	26, 29	11	3.3	−6	−46	14
Precuneus/ventral posterior cingulate	31	60	3.9	2	−66	20
Left hemisphere cortical activations
Superior frontal	8	92	3.8	−24	42	40
	8	15	3.3	−24	28	48
	9	14	3.4	−22	44	26
Inferior temporal	21	11	3.9	−62	−10	−22
Lateral parietal	39	11	3.5	−42	−60	44
Fusiform	18, 19	235	4.6	−22	−78	−20
Occipital	17	348	5.6	−18	−100	0
Right hemisphere cortical activations
Superior frontal	9	12	3.5	22	60	26
Anterior insula/operculum	13	157	4.2	38	14	−18
Inferior temporal	20, 21	46	3.8	64	−12	−24
Occipital/fusiform	17, 18, 19	602	5.0	16	−96	−2
Subcortical and cerebellar activations
R NAcc		8	3.4	4	6	−4
L amygdala		25	3.8	−24	−10	−24
R amygdala		13	3.3	30	−8	−22
Ventral tegmental area		4	3.3	0	−20	−18
Cerebellum		10	3.4	26	−48	−24

Voxels were thresholded at P < 0.001 (uncorrected), and formed clusters of at least 8 contiguous voxels.

An exception was made for the ventral tegmental area, whose anatomical volume is less than the volume represented by eight voxels [Mai et al.,2007].