Author response table 3. A set of fMRI studies with moderate sample size (N = 16 to 35).

	Author	Journal	Year	Sample Size (effective)	Main conclusion	Correlations(including mediating effects)
1	Günseli, Aly	eLife	2020	N=29	Hippocampus and vmPFC support memory-guided attention.	Correlation between vmPFC activity and hippocampal activity by skipped_pearson_correlation.m function (Figure 3B).
2	Keogh, Bergmann, Pearson	eLife	2020	N=32	Cortical excitability is linked to individual differences in the strength of mental imagery.	Spearman rank correlations between cortical excitability and imagery strength (Figure 3 and also see Study design in Materials and methods).
3	Liu et al.	Nature Communication	2016	N=18	Consolidation reconfigures neural pathways underlying the suppression of emotional memories.	Correlations between hippocampal functional connectivity/ pattern dissimilarity and behavioral suppression score by prediction analyses (Figure 4 and 6).
4	Gruber et al.	Neuron	2016	N=19	Post-learning hippocampal dynamics predict reward-related memory advantages.	Pearson’s correlations between hippocampal functional connectivity/ reactivation and memory benefits (Figure 2B and 3C).
5	Schlichting, Preston	PNAs	2014	N=35	Memory reactivation and hippocampal–neocortical functional connectivity during rest support subsequent learning.	Partial correlations between FFA reactivation/FFA-HPC connectivity and memory performance (Figure 2 and 3).
6	Wimmer, Shohamy	Science	2012	N=28	Hippocampal activation, reactivation, and coupling predict decision bias.	Mediating effects of visual reactivation on the relationship between hippocampal activity and striatum activity.
7	Tambini, Ketz, Davachi	Neuron	2010	N=16	Offline hippocampal-cortical interactions relate to subsequent associative memory.	Pearson’s correlations between offline hippocampal−LO correlations and associative memory (Figure 3D).