Fig. 3.

Associations between the emotional/metacognitive and neural measures for Experiment 2 (top, green) and Experiment 3 (bottom, orange). (a) Association between change in fc and change in thought control ability (b,c) Association between the initial fc and trait anxiety (STAI-T) as well as thought control ability (TCAQ) obtained before the MRI session. (d) Association between fc–NF–effect and state anxiety (STAI-S) obtained before the MRI session. Counter lines represent the bootstrapped Mahalanobis distance from the bivariate mean in steps of six squared units. Open circles represent outliers and the solid line is the regression over the data after outlier removal. Direction of solid arrows indicate levels related with higher anxiety. Direction of dashed arrows indicate the desired direction of practice-related change and fc–NF–effect.