They found areas in the left precentral gyrus, the left superior parietal lobule, and in the posterior part of the left superior temporal gyrus extending into the sulcus to be more active in this stress task compared to a semantic control condition.
In the fMRI experiment we administered the search task, correlated the estimated model parameter values for dwell time and (reciprocal) focus size to BOLD-responses, and thereby identified putative neural networks that are jointly active in the task but differentially specialized to the subprocesses attentional selection and attentional shift.
Mr. Harris had long been active in city task forces and business groups promoting the revitalization of the city's Old Town.
We expected that at least the primary auditory cortices would be active in this paradigm because the 40-Hz transient response has been localized there in previous studies [15], as well as possibly other areas in frontal and parietal cortex because these are usually active in any task requiring decisions based on perceptual input.
Brodmann's area 46 remained active in tapping tasks without experimental occlusal interference performed immediately and 30 minutes after the experimental occlusal interference was removed, but was not active in a task performed 60 minutes after the experimental occlusal interference was removed.
Again, this left intraparietal region matched the region active in the SD task (p<0.05, after small volume correction).
The VAN and, more conspicuously, the DAN are also active in CDTD tasks and show increased activity in response to emotional distractors [6].
In the brain regions active in the SD task (SD vs. SC; Figure 3B), we looked for brain areas whose activity was correlated with the post-scan ratings for differences in social distances by performing a correlation analysis.
Recent studies [14], [15] showed that regions active in a reward task like the bilateral ventral striatum, the ventral tegmental area and the VMPFC are also involved in differentiating between high and low personal relevance.
What you want to know is which bits of the brain are more active in certain tasks.
