While this might be a motor strategy for localized tasks such as upper cervical flexion, our findings reveal that altered motor patterns are not generalizable to activities of the lower limb, indicating that there is no tendency towards increased neck muscle tension in situations that do not require neck muscle strength.
In addition to the analysis of face-selective regions of interest, we examined the response of regions localized for one task, with the other task as well; for example, we examined whether there is sensitivity to detection-specific information in the aIT region already identified as sensitive to individuation-specific information.
One subject was excluded from analysis because of problems with localizing the visual cortex during the functional localizer task.
We localized the medBA10 and latBA10 by means of a localizer task.
In addition, future studies might want to use a separate localizer task in which the first-hand somatosensory representations of touch or pain are localized in each subject.
To accomplish this task, localized bone strain levels need to be measured upon the application of a load to the bone.
Furthermore, given that, as discussed above, the precise PFC regions involved likely differ between tasks, it is possible that hippocampal theta-band activity provides a long-range signal against which the activity of different PFC regions can be activated or suppressed as appropriate, allowing cortical activity to be precisely tuned and localized according to task demands.
To localize the task-relevant brain network, we used FACE > OBJECT as contrast of interest in a second level t-test, with age, gender, and Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale score as covariates.
Based on these reconstructed brains, and a reconstructed mesh of an individual participant's head, we could use Brainvoyager TMS Neuronavigation software (Brain Innovation, Maastricht, the Netherlands) to target directly on the individual hemispheres the functionally localized PPC and task-specifically effectively connected MFG for each participant.
Within both functionally localized MGBs, the syllable task elicits greater BOLD activity than the speaker task (p < 0.05 fwe corrected, n = 17).
