Research Article

Activation of the Prefrontal Cortex While Performing a Task at Preferred Slow Pace and Metronome Slow Pace: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

Table 1

Comparison of the numbers of channels that were significantly activated by the PSP and MSP tasks.

ROINo. of selected channels (mean (SD) for all subjects) value (df = 21) value
PSP versus restMSP versus rest

FPPFC1.64 (1.29)1.68 (1.39)−0.180.86
Right DLPFC2.36 (1.59)2.09 (1.38)1.240.23
Left DLPFC1.55 (1.41)1.82 (1.53)−1.140.27
Right VLPFC2.55 (1.74)2.50 (1.47)0.150.89
Left VLPFC2.55 (1.63)2.68 (1.67)−0.450.66

Paired test ( < 0.05).