Table 1.

Brain regions associated with OU and EV during curiosity inductiona

Anatomical regionHemispheretCluster sizeCorrected pCoordinates
xyz
OU
    Inferior parietal lobuleLeft5.072300.001−34−5046
OU-negative
    PrecuneusRight7.20726< 0.0010−4654
    Postcentral gyrusLeft6.67288< 0.001−52−2060
    HippocampusLeft6.331570.007−32−18−16
    Fusiform gyrusLeft6.11587< 0.001−22−42−10
    Temporal superior gyrusRight6.09890< 0.00158−4618
    Temporal middle gyrusLeft5.83249< 0.001−582−20
    Frontal middle gyrusRight5.67421< 0.001241856
    Angular gyrusRight5.62286< 0.00146−7236
    Fusiform gyrusRight5.441190.02928−34−14
    Frontal middle gyrusLeft5.26512< 0.001−222446
    Calcarine sulcusRight5.11255< 0.00116−528
    Temporal middle gyrusRight5.112110.00150−20−14
    Calcarine sulcusLeft5.03652< 0.001−12−6018
    Occipital middle gyrusLeft4.90252< 0.001−38−8238
EV-negative
    Calcarine sulcusRight5.491300.01214−6018
Residual curiosity-positive
    Pre-SMALeft4.61258<0.001−82246
  • aSpatial coordinates of local maxima for regions showing activity as a function of OU or EV at the moment of curiosity induction. Coordinates correspond to the standard MNI brain. We used a primary voxel threshold of p < 0.001 (uncorrected) and a cluster-level correction of p < 0.05 (FWE).