Table 3.
Task-positive and task-negative brain regions showing up and down regulation, respectively, in response to the Load manipulation, in younger adults.
| Brain Regions | BA | MNI Coordinates | F Values | Cluster size | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | ||||
| Task-positive Regions (WM) | ||||||
| Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex | ||||||
| R Middle Frontal Gyrus | 9 | 36 | 39 | 33 | 9.78 | 49 |
| Lateral Frontal Cortex | ||||||
| L Inferior Frontal Gyrus | 9 | −48 | 9 | 24 | 9.63 | 155 |
| L Precentral Gyrus | 6 | −57 | 0 | 21 | 6.24 | |
| Medial Frontal Cortex | ||||||
| L Medial Frontal Gyrus | 6 | −9 | 15 | 48 | 8.43 | 115 |
| L Cingulate Gyrus | 32 | −6 | 21 | 42 | 8.14 | |
| R Superior Frontal Gyrus | 6 | 6 | 12 | 54 | 5.68 | |
| R Cingulate Gyrus | 32 | 6 | 27 | 33 | 5.93 | |
| Parietal Cortex | ||||||
| L Precuneus | 7 | −24 | −63 | 42 | 10.65 | 333 |
| R Precuneus | 7 | 9 | −69 | 51 | 7.34 | 160 |
| Insula | ||||||
| R Insula | 13 | 33 | 18 | 3 | 7.97 | 72 |
| Task-negative Regions (DMN) | ||||||
| Medial Prefrontal Cortex | ||||||
| L Superior Frontal Gyrus | 9 | −15 | 51 | 33 | 5.93 | 36† |
| Temporo-Parietal Junction | ||||||
| R Middle Temporal Gyrus | 39 | 54 | −69 | 30 | 7.55 | 121 |
| L Middle Temporal Gyrus | 39 | −45 | −66 | 27 | 5.5 | 43† |
| Posterior Cingulate Cortex/Precuneus | ||||||
| L Precuneus | 31 | −9 | −48 | 33 | 5.94 | 57† |
| R Cingulate Gyrus | 31 | 6 | −48 | 30 | 5.96 | |
Significance threshold is pFWE < 0.05 (see Materials and Methods). Cluster size is in voxels and reflects size after masking (logical “AND” conjunction) the F-maps with binarized composite random-effects t-maps identifying regions showing up and down regulation, respectively, in response to the Load manipulation (see Materials and Methods).
Significant at p < 0.001 and k = 30 voxels, uncorrected. Anatomical regions were identified using the Talairach Client (http://talairach.org) after transforming the SPM12 Montreal Neurological Institute coordinates to Talairach space using GingerALE (http://brainmap.org). WM, Working Memory; DMN, Default-Mode Network; L, Left; R, Right; BA, Brodmann Area.