Table 2.
Region | Connectivity | BA | Voxels | MNI (x,y,z mm) | p value* |
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Meditation trait effects | |||||
EM rsBase > HC rsBase | |||||
Default Mode Network (DMN) | |||||
Superior Frontal Gyrus | Reduced | L 11 | >1000 | –16,60,26 | 0.01 |
Middle Frontal Gyrus | Reduced | L 9 | >200 | –26,26,32 | 0.01 |
Inferior Parietal Lobule | Reduced | L 40 | >200 | –38,–48,26 | 0.02 |
Superior Temporal Gyrus | Reduced | R 38 | >200 | 48,16,–20 | 0.03 |
Central Executive Network (CEN) | |||||
No significant differences | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Meditation state effects | |||||
EM Med > EM rsBase | |||||
Default Mode Network (DMN) | |||||
No significant differences | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Central Executive Network (CEN) | |||||
Middle frontal gyrus | Increased | L 10 | >200 | –29,48,15 | 0.02 |
Middle frontal gyrus | Increased | R 10 | >200 | 31,52,12 | 0.02 |
Anterior cingulate cortex | Increased | L 32 | >200 | 4,30,24 | 0.02 |
Posterior cingulate cortex | Increased | R 31 | >200 | 3,–31,38 | 0.03 |
Inferior Parietal Lobule | Increased | L 40 | >200 | –38,–46,46 | 0.03 |
State-to-trait effects | |||||
EM rsPost > EM rsBase | |||||
Default Mode Network (DMN) | |||||
No significant differences | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Central Executive Network (CEN) | |||||
Precuneus | Increased | L 23 | >1000 | –2,–42,28 | 0.02 |
Angular gyrus | Increased | R 39 | >1000 | 50,–66,33 | 0.02 |
Brodmann areas (BA), number of voxels and Montreal Neurological Coordinates (MIN).
*nonparametric (1000 permutations) with height threshold p < 0.05 and cluster-size FDR-corrected p < 0.05.