Table 3.
Repetition suppression effects in regions active during novel picture processing separately for emotional and neutral pictures that were presented with massed or distributed repetition, and significance of the t-test comparing suppression for emotional and neutral scenes.
| REGION | Amount of Suppressiona | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massed | Distributed | |||||
| Emot | Neu | t-test | Emot | Neu | t-test | |
| Calcarine G. | .15 | .24 | * | .13 | .13 | |
| Lingual G. | .14 | .23 | * | .12 | .15 | |
| Inferior Occipital G. | .15 | .19 | .08 | .14 | ||
| Middle Occipital G. | .15 | .20 | .07 | .14 | ||
| Superior Occipital G. | .09 | .15 | .05 | .11 | ||
| Cuneus | .11 | .17 | .09 | .10 | ||
| Fusiform G. | .18 | .26 | .13 | .19 | ||
| Inferior Temporal G. | .20 | .20 | .12 | .15 | ||
| Middle Temporal G. | .13 | .16 | .09 | .12 | ||
| Superior Parietal L. | .05 | .17 | * | .01 | .15 | * |
| Thalamus | .08 | .13 | .08 | .09 | ||
| ParaHippocampal G. | .12 | .21 | * | .11 | .09 | |
| Hippocampus | .11 | .18 | .12 | .08 | ||
| Amygdala | .15 | .20 | .17 | .10 | ||
| SMA | −.01 | .03 | .03 | .05 | ||
| Precentral G. | .10 | .12 | .09 | .10 | ||
| Inferior Frontal G. | .14 | .16 | .13 | .12 | ||
*
p<.05
a
Suppression is calculated as the reduction in mean BOLD signal change (beta value) when the BOLD signal change measured during repetition is subtracted from the BOLD signal change measured during novel picture processing.