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Table 4 Individual contrasts

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

Cluster peak region

Side

BA

Z-value

p-value

Cluster size (voxels)

Peak coordinate (x y z)

Mother > Father

 Supplementary Motor Area/Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex

Left

6/32

4.78

 <0 .001

1019

-8 18 40

 Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex/Temporal Pole

Left

45/44/47

4.46

0.002

417

-48 24 16

Father > Mother

 Temporo-parietal junction (Inferior Parietal Cortex, SupraMarginal Gyrus Angular Gyrus, Middle and Superior temporal Gyrus)

Right

40

4.59

 < 0.001

798

56 -40 34

 Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex

Right

46/10

4.07

 <0 .001

375

38 46 0

Santa > Mother

 Superior Frontal Cortex

Left

8/9/6/10

4.33

 < 0.001

1224

-10 32 50

Mother > Santa

 No suprathreshold voxels

Poem > Father

 Supplementary Motor Area, Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex

Left–Right

6/32

4.37

 < 0.001

754

-8 18 42

 Premotor Cortex

Right

6/8

4.30

 < 0.001

331

48 4 48

 Bilateral Thalamus

Left–Right

 

4.08

 <0 .001

939

14 -18 10

 Inferior Frontal Cortex

Left

9/6

3.80

 < 0.001

447

-38 0 42

Father > Poem

 No suprathreshold voxels