Table 4.
Emotion-by-Age effects of brain activities during the Emotional Face Assessment Task (corrected p < 0.05).
| Brain Region | Brodmann Area (BA) |
Peak MNI Coordinates (x,y,z) |
Z-score | Size (mm3) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ART | |||||
|
Main Effect of Emotion |
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| vmPFC | BA 10 | −2, 62, 0 | 4.26 | 2,064 | |
| L DLPFC | BA 9 | −46, 32, 38 | 4.09 | 1,080 | |
| R DLPFC | BA 9,10, 46 | 44, 44, 32 | 3.42 | 928 | |
|
Main Effect of Age |
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| R SFG | BA 6 | 28, 12, 68 | 3.94 | 1,096 | |
| R IFG | Ba 11, 47 | 22, 24, −22 | 3.52 | 720 | |
| R vmPFC | BA 11, 25 | 10, 12, −18 | 3.29 | 656 | |
| L PH/HP | −30, −14, −22 | 3.18 | 584 | ||
|
Emotion by Age Interaction |
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| vmPFC | BA 10 | 0, 62, 0 | 3.20 | 768 | |
| FD | |||||
|
Main Effect of Emotion |
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| vmPFC | BA 10 | 0, 62, 0 | 4.13 | 1,592 | |
| L vmPFC | BA 10 | −10, 46, −10 | 3.33 | 432 | |
| R DLPFC | BA 9 | 22, 30, 34 | 3.47 | 592 | |
|
Main Effect of Age |
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| R SFG | BA 6 | 28, 14, 66 | 3.49 | 520 | |
|
Emotion by Age Interaction |
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| vmPFC | BA 10 | 4, 64, 0 | 3.37 | 744 | |
Abbreviations: ART: using Artifact Detection Tools to identify outlier volumes; FD: using framewise displacement based method to identify outlier volumes; L-left; MNI-Montreal Neurologic Institute; vmPFC-ventral medial prefrontal cortex; DLPFC-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; SFG-superior frontal gyrus.