Fig. 3
From: Enhanced bodily states of fear facilitates bias perception of fearful faces
Brain responses to emotional faces according to somatotopic information (FBS and DBS). A: BOLD response to emotional face after bodily imagery task. Brain activity in response to the fearful face (fearful face > intermediate face) under the FBS condition was found in the bilateral regions of the anterior insula and dorsolateral prefrontal and inferior frontal cortices and in the right posterior insula, secondary somatosensory cortex, middle temporal gyrus (extrastriate body area), and middle occipital gyrus (p < 0.05; cluster-wise corrected). In contrast, the fearful face did not evoke significant brain activity under the DBS condition. Moreover, the disgusted face did not evoke a significant brain response (disgusted face > intermediate face) under the FBS or DBS condition. a Beta estimates for insula and amygdala (ROIs). b The ROI analysis of the bilateral amygdala and insula revealed that the FBS condition enhanced the brain response to fearful faces