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. 2019 Jul 18;142(9):2873–2887. doi: 10.1093/brain/awz204

Table 2.

Functional neuroanatomical associations of viewing dynamic facial emotions

Group Region Side Cluster (voxels) Peak (mm) PFWE
x y z
Early visual processing: effect of conditiona
All Primary visual cortex Right 279 15 −94 14 <0.001
Left −12 91 2
Facial emotion processing: effect of conditionb
All Area MT/V5 Right 345 51 −70 2 <0.001
Superior temporal sulcus / middle temporal gyrus Right 57 −34 2
Angular gyrus Right 63 −58 14
Fusiform gyrus Right 71 42 −46 −16 0.001*
Left 62 −42 −52 −19 0.021*
Area MT/V5 Left 87 45 −58 11 0.010*
Facial emotion processing: positive > negative emotionsc
All Cuneus Left 254 −3 −88 23 0.001
Cuneus Right 6 −82 38
Facial emotion processing: negative > positive emotionsd
All Inferior occipital gyrus Right 157 24 −88 2 0.019
Lingual gyrus Right 15 −91 −4
Fusiform gyrus Right 21 −82 −7
Area MT/V5 Right 25 48 −64 2 0.045*
Fusiform gyrus Left 32 −27 −88 −10 0.031*
Facial emotion processing: effect of groupe
All Area MT/V5 Right 145 54 −67 −4 0.001
Middle temporal gyrus Right 60 −55 11
Fusiform gyrus Right 32 42 −46 −16 0.020*

The table presents functional MRI correlates for the individual specified contrasts across the combined participant cohort (all groups). Voxel coordinates of local maxima within significant clusters are in standard MNI stereotactic space. P-values represent cluster-level FWE-corrected values over the whole brain, except *peak level FWE-corrected within pre-specified regions of interest.

Key contrasts were formed as follows.

aT contrast facial emotion > fixation cross; bT contrast facial emotion > mosaic; cT contrast positive emotion > negative emotion; dT contrast negative emotion > positive emotion; eF contrast facial emotion > mosaic.