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Table 1 Main effect of Prayer act

From: Monitoring the neural activity associated with praying in Sahaja Yoga meditation

Cluster peak region

Side

Brodmann Area (BA)

Z-value

p-value

Cluster size (voxels)

Peak coordinate (x y z)

Main effect of religious domain (Mother & Father > Santa & Poem)

 No suprathreshold voxels

Main effect of secular domain (Santa & Poem > Mother & Father)

 Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex/Temporal Pole

Left

45/47

4.77

0.01

365

-48 24 -6

 Dorsolateral Prefrontal cortex/Precentral gyrus

Left

9/8

4.61

 < 0.001

690

-34 10 54

 Bilateral Thalamus

Left–Right

 

4.40

 <0 .001

776

-2 -16 4

 Supplementary Motor Area/Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex

Left

6/32

4.16

 <0 .001

682

-4 16 44