Table 4 Activation clusters for t-contrasts between congruent and incongruent statements in biology.

From: An fMRI study of scientists with a Ph.D. in physics confronted with naive ideas in science

Brain areas

MNI peak coordinate

x

Y

z

k

t

puncorr

   

INCONGRUENT > CONGRUENT

Frontal lobe

      

L Inferior frontal gyrus (triangular), Bilateral caudate

−21

30

−12

83

4.53

<0.0001

R Anterior cingulate cortex

12

39

24

40

3.97

<0.0001

R Insula, R Superior frontal gyrus (orbital)

27

21

−15

30

3.95

<0.0001

L Anterior cingulate gyrus, R Superior frontal gyrus (medial orbital)

−15

33

21

105

3.86

<0.0001

R Superior frontal gyrus (medial), R Midcingulate gyrus

9

33

39

34

3.72

<0.001

  

CONGRUENT > INCONGRUENT

Frontal lobe

      

L Precentral gyrus

−48

−6

42

62

3.87

<0.0001

Occipital lobe

      

R Middle occipital gyrus

33

−93

12

120

4.67

<0.0001

L Middle occipital gyrus

−27

−96

9

128

4.36

<0.0001

  1. Note: coordinates are reported in MNI space as given by SPM8, pUNCORRECTED < 0.005, expected voxels per cluster k = 12, second‐level analysis (random effect analysis, t tests), MNI coordinates in mm. Anatomical labels are based on the AAL (automated anatomical labeling) atlas (Tzourio-Mazoyer et al., 2002). The first label represents the location of the peak activation, additional labels denote submaxima if located in a different brain region.
  2. L left, R right.
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