Table 2 Activation levels of ROIs in the brain showing simple main effects during humor appreciation.
From: Appreciation of different styles of humor: An fMRI study
Brain region | Facilitating relationships | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Self-defeating humor (SD) | Affiliative humor (AF) | |||||||||
MNI coordinates | Voxels | Z-value | MNI coordinates | Voxels | Z-value | |||||
x | y | z | x | y | z | |||||
Target | Self-directed humor (SD > SE) | Other-directed humor (AF > AG) | ||||||||
Temporal pole (TP) (BA 38) | −50 | 12 | −24 | 24 | 4.92 | |||||
Midbrain | 0 | −24 | −12 | 88 | 4.80 | |||||
12 | −16 | −18 | 23 | 4.30 | ||||||
Nucleus accumbens (NAc) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 4.25 | 6 | 10 | −6 | 26 | 4.42 |
Subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) (BA 25) | 2 | 4 | −6 | 86 | 4.92 | |||||
Temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) (BA 39) | 38 | −56 | 22 | 31 | 4.85 | |||||
−48 | −66 | 28 | 10 | 3.33 | ||||||
Medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) (BA 11) | 4 | 54 | −10 | 9 | 3.50 | |||||
Motivation | Detrimental humor (SD > AG) | Benign humor (AF > SE) | ||||||||
NAc | 10 | 10 | 0 | 55 | 5.04 | |||||
−4 | 6 | −2 | 32 | 4.88 | ||||||
Middle temporal gyrus (MTG) (BA 22/21) | −54 | −48 | 0 | 64 | 4.40 | |||||
Midbrain | 10 | −18 | −18 | 27 | 4.38 | |||||
−2 | −24 | −14 | 81 | 4.36 | ||||||
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) (BA 10) | 8 | 64 | 6 | 14 | 4.07 | |||||
TP | −50 | 12 | −24 | 13 | 3.67 | |||||
TPJ | −44 | −56 | 12 | 16 | 3.25 | |||||
sgACC | 4 | 16 | −6 | 45 | 4.89 | |||||
Amygdala | −26 | −6 | −22 | 8 | 4.02 | |||||
