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Table 2 Brain areas activated in the blocked and event-related design in response to erotic compared to neutral images

From: Does erotic stimulus presentation design affect brain activation patterns? Event-related vs. blocked fMRI designs

  

Blocked design

Event-related design

Brain area

Side

Cluster size

BA

MNI

Tmax

Cluster Size

BA

MNI

Tmax

    

x

y

z

   

x

y

z

 

Frontal lobe

R

172

6

48

33

42

-3

15

51

27

9.30

7.12

11

44

48

15

33

6.27

 

L

48

6

-24

-9

51

7.11

14

6

-9

-15

57

7.54

Orbitofrontal lobe/Insula

R

      

116

38

47

36

39

18

42

-15

-3

8.69

5.47

 

L

      

81

38

48

-39

18

-12

8.97

Parietal lobe

R

159

40

36

-48

54

7.67

      
 

L

37

7

-21

-54

54

5.77

16

3

-27

-18

42

6.53

Temporal lobe/rolandic operculum

R

14

48

63

0

6

-6.18

      
 

L

      

10

20

-39

-18

-21

5.66

Occipitotemporal lobe

R

414

37

19

54

42

-63

-75

0

-15

14.68

7.25

379

37

19

48

48

-57

-72

-3

-3

13.77

13.75

 

L

70

37

-51

-66

3

9.49

266

37

19

-54

-39

-66

-75

3

-9

12.52

8.14

Thalamus

L

      

63

 

-9

-24

6

7.08

Cingulate gyrus

R

      

68

24

32

6

12

42

7.37

Cerebellum

L

48

 

-3

-72

-27

7.32

63

 

-9

-24

6

7.08

  1. p FDR < .05; two-tailed; blocked design: |T| > 4.77; event-related design: |T| > 4.69; cluster size ≥ 10 voxels; BA: Brodmann area; MNI: Montreal Neurological Institute; Tmax: Student's T-value (local maximum); L: left; R: right