Whole-brain analysis
Pain, pain
BRAIN, CORTEX
The analysis revealed the main effect of Story Type (no pain vs. pain, within-subject). Stories with Pain elicited higher blood oxygen level dependant (BOLD) signal involved in processing information about pain experienced by another person (including the affective components): AI, ACC, pre- and postcentral gyrus, thalamus, caudate, supplementary motor cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, frontal pole bilaterally, cerebellar vermis (4/5). All regions visualized in Fig. Brain activations (T-map) showing a significant main effect of pain by contrasting conditions: (pain Polish + pain Arab) > (no pain Polish + no pain Arab). Thresholded for voxel-level at Regions showing a significant main effect of pain.In addition, there was also a significant Type of Comments × Story interaction in the right TPJ, which is a hub of mentalizing networks (Fig. Brain activations (F-map) showing a significant interaction of Type of Comments × Story effect. Thresholded for voxel-level at 